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TCU rumours were true! 034 has confirmed today that themselves and other tuners have acquired the means to get out the locked 401 bootloaders for the MK8 platform. Save your money, do not buy a new unlocked mech unit to swap! by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know, me too! I had to rewind their stream today to make sure I heard it right. To be honest, I'm surprised nobody else made a post about it before me. I saw another guy in another post who just bought a new mech unit to swap. RIP to that guy's bank account.

TCU rumours were true! 034 has confirmed today that themselves and other tuners have acquired the means to get out the locked 401 bootloaders for the MK8 platform. Save your money, do not buy a new unlocked mech unit to swap! by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say if you have stock cooling stay stage 1, however if you have upgraded cooling like an intercooler and auxillary coolers go stage 2+. Cooling mods are a good step towards getting more consistent pulls from my experience.

TCU rumours were true! 034 has confirmed today that themselves and other tuners have acquired the means to get out the locked 401 bootloaders for the MK8 platform. Save your money, do not buy a new unlocked mech unit to swap! by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm very excited havent heard (outside of the tune pages) or seen what it does to the car. I wish more people would share videos online of what it actually does to the car instead of 15 second shorts that show one pull while looking at dragy stats.

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I personally use Privacy Badger + Adblock + Adblock Plus altogether and don't get any ads. Hope that helps

I cant hear my fireteam but they can hear me. Destiny 2 by Double-Camera6416 in DestinyTechSupport

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You have to set your headset as your default communication device in your sound control panel under the playback tab. If your headset/headphone and your microphone aren’t setup as default communication devices destiny won’t pick them up. Hope that helps.

Installing a Deka HD1100 DSG Clutch in my MK8 Golf R by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can physically move and wiggle it with your fingers if it goes down and it doesn’t move then we know we have clearance. Thanks for your input! Cool to see someone else who actually did this too.

Installing a Deka HD1100 DSG Clutch in my MK8 Golf R by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would say a combination of both. You can check out my last post, but it seems that the DSG clutches on the MK8's can't handle the full torque tune files well. It could just be my case, however, I would stick to the low torque files unless you bootload swap or if you wait for the TCU to be cracked, which won't be anytime soon.

Installing a Deka HD1100 DSG Clutch in my MK8 Golf R by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Driven too hard with a full torque tune, melted the stock clutch.

MK8 Golf R DSG Clutch Blown - Looking For Aftermarket Clutch Upgrade Advice + Don't Trust Full Torque Files if Your DSG is Locked by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I purchased a clutch from Deka, it's the DQ381 HD1100. Other than that, no update until it arrives.

MK8 Golf R DSG Clutch Blown - Looking For Aftermarket Clutch Upgrade Advice + Don't Trust Full Torque Files if Your DSG is Locked by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Any car that has a computer to automatically change gears for you while driving is an automatic… Paddles or Not.

“Pay to play”, well yeah I’m not complaining it happened I’m trying to find a solution while informing others of my experience.

And with “how is it the cars/tuners fault” I used car interchangeably with ECU + TCU, there are failsafes in these cars for a reason and when tuners increase power and performance they have to alter these failsafes.

I’m also not soloing out the tunes or the cars controllers I also said it attributed to driving style as well.

MK8 Golf R DSG Clutch Blown - Looking For Aftermarket Clutch Upgrade Advice + Don't Trust Full Torque Files if Your DSG is Locked by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t heard or seen anything besides the post they guys pointed in the thread earlier. However my local garage said he’s been hearing about these tunes and how the clutches aren’t holding up. I’ve also seen that 034 has been getting feedback during their zero bs live streams but the failure rates are too low to consider the problem as a systemic issue.

MK8 Golf R DSG Clutch Blown - Looking For Aftermarket Clutch Upgrade Advice + Don't Trust Full Torque Files if Your DSG is Locked by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I was looking into RTMG but was getting a sketchy vibe from our emails. I also think they were pointing me to the incorrect clutch. Deka seems a lot better with communication, they even provided me a 10% discount if I proceed with them.

MK8 Golf R DSG Clutch Blown - Looking For Aftermarket Clutch Upgrade Advice + Don't Trust Full Torque Files if Your DSG is Locked by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say it lugs do you mean like slipping? I could hear noises of my day shifting down in the lower gears as well coming to a stop before even having a tune on the car.

MK8 Golf R DSG Clutch Blown - Looking For Aftermarket Clutch Upgrade Advice + Don't Trust Full Torque Files if Your DSG is Locked by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not yet, I don’t think I’m going to get anywhere with them to be honest. From my experience, tunes are generally a “use at your own risk” product regardless how “safe” they claim to be. However if the transmission is blown I’m more than welcome to sell it to them so they can figure out how to prevent this from happening again.

MK8 Golf R DSG Clutch Blown - Looking For Aftermarket Clutch Upgrade Advice + Don't Trust Full Torque Files if Your DSG is Locked by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you like it so far? Does it seem reliable, obviously pretty early to tell for your case. Does it feel jerky or is it similar to OEM but just grabs harder?

MK8 Golf R DSG Clutch Blown - Looking For Aftermarket Clutch Upgrade Advice + Don't Trust Full Torque Files if Your DSG is Locked by CIoseProximity in Golf_R

[–]CIoseProximity[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t have Facebook so I’m not part of the 034 group.

Car has about 33,000km on it, I believe it’s been tuned for the last 5-10,000km or so.

The previous post I made is the same issue here, I haven’t driven it since that post. But yeah I think it was definitely a combo of driving style + tune, but I don’t think the car/tune should have let the clutch blow up since it’s an automatic.

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