Ok, I have owned manual cars for my entire life, and this is the first one that's perplexing. I have an issue with my MK7 "accidently" engaging into reverse when I want to shift into first. This doesn't always happen, and I've now isolated the biggest red flag of when it happens, but I can't tell if it's "normal" or not.
At a stop light, I shift into first, no problem. No confusion with reverse here.
Backing out of the garage, I now have the car intentionally in reverse (by pushing down and into R as we all know.) Again, no problem.
Camera goes on, I'm in reverse and I drive back slowly out of the garage. Great.
I'm now back all the way I need to be, and I now want to shift into first, so I engage first gear, and I swear, about 10% of the time, it's STILL goes continues in reverse. It's really bad and highly dangerous. It's almost as if once the lockout is disabled and the GTI knows you want to be in reverse with the cam on and everything, that even the slightest hint in-between R and 1st will cause the car to shift into reverse.
I guess I could take it in, but I think this is just like the fuel gauge debacle where I only get about 10.5 gallons on a fill up and that's just the way it is due to a design flaw. I don't mind the fuel gauge issue, but this one is really troubling when you're reversing out of a parallel parking situation and then nearly reverse into the car behind you accidently, etc.
I honestly don't know if this is just the way it is, operator error, or both?
Am I the only one that has this happen to them?
At a stop light, I shift into first, no problem. No confusion with reverse here.
Backing out of the garage, I now have the car intentionally in reverse (by pushing down and into R as we all know.) Again, no problem.
Camera goes on, I'm in reverse and I drive back slowly out of the garage. Great.
I'm now back all the way I need to be, and I now want to shift into first, so I engage first gear, and I swear, about 10% of the time, it's STILL goes continues in reverse. It's really bad and highly dangerous. It's almost as if once the lockout is disabled and the GTI knows you want to be in reverse with the cam on and everything, that even the slightest hint in-between R and 1st will cause the car to shift into reverse.
I guess I could take it in, but I think this is just like the fuel gauge debacle where I only get about 10.5 gallons on a fill up and that's just the way it is due to a design flaw. I don't mind the fuel gauge issue, but this one is really troubling when you're reversing out of a parallel parking situation and then nearly reverse into the car behind you accidently, etc.
I honestly don't know if this is just the way it is, operator error, or both?
Am I the only one that has this happen to them?
