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As I am getting used to my new 2008 V8 Treg, I noticed that the MFD in the dash tells me if I am in drive, but unlike my old 04 Treg, doesn't tell me what gear I am in. I figured I can nudge the shifter into Manual shift mode and it will show the gear and the I nudge it back. Anyone know why VW got rid of the gear indicator (the old Treg PRNDL was very well designed). Is there a mod that can be done to display the gear continuosly on the MFD? Or am I missing something in the menus and this is a silly novice question?

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If I understand you correctly, you are looking to know what gear you are in even though you are just in drive correct. If that is the case, I do not know of a way. If you are talking about being in tiptronic mode, it tells you in the MFD where the D normally is.
 
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VWZach said:
If I understand you correctly, you are looking to know what gear you are in even though you are just in drive correct. If that is the case, I do not know of a way. If you are talking about being in tiptronic mode, it tells you in the MFD where the D normally is.
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Correct. In the 2008 cluster, in normal drive mode, it just shows D. In the 2004, it would indicate the specific drive gear. Since the information is available from the transmission controller, I am curious as to why this was no longer presented and also whether it can be turned on. I saw on another board the Tig drivers noting the same thing and a poster mentioned that clusters from different countries may display the current gear. I wonder if a simple display hack can put the drive gear all the time, kinda like in Sport mode.
 
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Nobody has figured it out...its a feature I miss, my '04 had it, but my '07 doesn't.
 
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My guess as to why it disappeared: Owners with shifting issues going in to the dealer, saying that the 5-4 downshift was rough. We had too much info for our own good, and now we just say "shifting issues" and the tech says "Can't Duplicate problem." :p

Matt
 
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my '04 had it, but my '07 doesn't

Nickm, interesting that you egg doesn't show what gear you're in. Our '07 does - in fact, that's a feature that pushed me toward buying the egg.
 
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khaug1 said:
my '04 had it, but my '07 doesn't

Nickm, interesting that you egg doesn't show what gear you're in. Our '07 does - in fact, that's a feature that pushed me toward buying the egg.
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Mine shows it only when I am in tiptronic, or when I use the paddle shifters while in D or S...I'll get the sequence of numbers 1-2-3-4-5-6 and the gear I'm in is highlighted... is this what yours is doing as well?

in comparison, my '04 would show the gear number I was in beside the "D" in the display, this was while in D or S, so instead of showing the range of numbers it would actually show "1" or "2"etc.
 
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nickm said:
Mine shows it only when I am in tiptronic, or when I use the paddle shifters while in D or S...I'll get the sequence of numbers 1-2-3-4-5-6 and the gear I'm in is highlighted... is this what yours is doing as well?

in comparison, my '04 would show the gear number I was in beside the "D" in the display, this was while in D or S, so instead of showing the range of numbers it would actually show "1" or "2"etc.
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Our '07 V-10 TDI behaves as you describe your '04 did. The vehicle is pretty heavily optioned and has the color MFD.
 
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Vegas Matt said:
My guess as to why it disappeared: Owners with shifting issues going in to the dealer, saying that the 5-4 downshift was rough. We had too much info for our own good, and now we just say "shifting issues" and the tech says "Can't Duplicate problem." :p

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Matt is the 5-4 downshift and 5-6 upshift a known issue?? Don't get time to frequent these boards as I used to :(
My tranny is slowly going downhill with these shifting issues and it would be good to know if this is a common problem that has been documented!

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