Cupra 280 gearbox issues

Got my car booked in for the 29th October with the Stealer.

My gearbox (6-speed DSG) isn't acting right.

There's two issues:

1. When I come to a dead stop, say at the traffic lights, the revs rise to 2000rpm on their own and then settle down;
2. The gearbox is making a whining noise at lower speeds (please, no jokes about immigrants getting in at Calais).

Issue 2 is probably the bearings (and to me, this isn't the most pressing issue).

But issue 1? The master technician who I took out said it might be the throttle controller.

A bit more about issue 1:

It only happens when I come to a stop. It's been happening for a week. At first I thought it was me touching the throttle by accident, but it wasn't. It only happens in 1st gear, not reverse. It happens 8 times out of 10. The master technician said it isn't in any way normal.

I'm not going to speculate any more than I have done. The car is under warranty and I'm not remapped, so everything will be done for free - there's obviously something wrong with it because I've never experienced it before in any DSG.

Also, funny story - when I went into my Stealer (I just dropped in, no appointment) the manager said he couldn't get anyone to look at my car until late October - I couldn't even get a technician to come out with me there and then. So I displayed by frustration and told him he was being ridiculous. But then the bombshell: the manager asked what Ibiza it was. I said it isn't - it's a Cupra 280. The look on the manager's face was priceless, he apologised to me and got the technician right away. So it really does pay to have a top of the range car

golf gti dude said:

Mine goes up to about 1.5 on the rev counter and then settles but was told this is totally normal

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Told by who?

AndrewJB said:

It's normal both of them.

Ever driven a car with a sequential gearbox or a motorbike? they whine like hell. DSG is very similar.

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Yes, I have, and they do whine. But mine is getting louder and more obtrusive.

And I completely disagree with issue 1. It isn't normal at all, and the master technician at Seat said the very same thing. That's why he told me to book it in and that's why I have done. The key point here is that it only started happening in the past couple of weeks out of over 20,000 miles on the road.