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stinkwheel wrote: | Approach roundabout, slip into neutral from second as coming to a halt, start-stop starts to kick in, decide can go again, dip clutch and back into second (as still rolling clightly) clutch back out, stalls as was in the process of starting. |
Don't know if this is right or wrong but I was taught to stop in gear, so I'd have the clutch in and start/stop wouldn't activate in that situation.
mudcow007 wrote: | Are people to think to use manual controls now?
Some gadgets are useful, like radar controlled cruise control |
I think so, hill starts I don't get, I've never had a problem with them (even as a learner) and find the handbrake very natural to use. It seems to be people who don't use the handbrake that have an issue.
stinkwheel wrote: | It also turns out if you exceed 30mph with no seatbelt on, the side door open and the traction control turned off, the centre console nag screen has a meltdown and changes its language setting to French. |
My car bleeps really loudly if someone takes their seatbelt off. First time it did it I had a bag on the passenger seat, it waited a good 10-15 minutes into the journey (when I was pulling onto a motorway) to start shrieking, I wondered WTF was going on. |
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In my experience, ALL car electronics are hell of a a glitchy.
It was a 50:50 which way the windows on my vito would go when you pushed the button. It also ate two ECUs.
My brand new citroen dispatch randomly resets the speed and distance units to metric and changes the language. It sometimes locks you out of the radio (sticks on stations or volumes). The touch screen in the centre console works only intermittantly, it sometimes wont respond to touches. I've occasionally seen the rev counter needle flickering up and down to itself through the window when the van is off and the doors are locked.
The alarm randomly goes off for no apparent reason, the windows sometimes wind themselves down a couple of inches when you lock the doors off the fob, and you sometimes come back to the vehicle to find the wipers in the middle of the windscreen.
So a self-releasing handbrake would come as no surprise to me at all. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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Don't start me on my fiat, just ticked over 10,000 miles and it's had faulty remote central locking fixed under warranty and occasionally it starts beeping at me saying my airbag has been disabled (lovely), and yesterday it started flashing up about how hill start assist and ESC is disabled, FFS It's fine now but every now and then it just likes to remind you it's a fiat. I used to drive Iveco Daily's in my last job with the most horrible semi-auto gearbox in the world and they too were extremely flakey vans, the worst fault being the windscreen wipers would some times stop working, kind of a big deal. The other big deal was the DPF was extremely clogged up and it would randomly cut out (1 year old van used every day ~600 miles per week probably) until one day it did it on a junction and wouldn't restart plus due to the semi auto box I couldn't even use the starter to move the van so got called alsorts that day until someone eventually helped me push it.
As for electric handbrakes being idiot/fault proof, the Audi that was squashed against my car suggests otherwise Maybe they didn't engage automatically back then, not really sure how they work but it would make sense to engage when the key is removed. Just remember some day that servo and motor for the whole system will break. Plus you can't do proper handbrake turns in the snow which is a deal breaker. ____________________ KTM 990 SMT & Suzuki DR-Z 400 SM |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 179 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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