Quote Originally Posted by gavs View Post
What you have experienced is what golf owners started calling the "false neutral" phenomenon. It seems on the surface to be more prevalent in the 7spd DSG cars.
Yup, noticed that on my 4 month old Jetta last night. I had noticed it a few weeks ago too, but was convinced I was imagining things!). At a set of lights, on a slight incline (enough to engage the hill hold), and was driving in manual mode. Not the most pleasant thing to experience in evening traffic. And yes, it decidedly did feel like the car was in "neutral" while still obviously engaged in "1" (on Manual Mode.

The only way out was to restart the car. I guess as with computers, a reboot always helps.