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Originally Posted by ScottAndrew
That's how I see it. Not only do I resent state-meddling nannyism, but the implementation is poor too. Stop to reverse into a parking bay, select reverse, engine goes dead, lift brake, engine coughs and car rabbit-hops into reverse gear.
Starting the car is a two-button process. I only wonder if I'm being monitored when I do this :/
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I highly doubt any one will have an interest in what you do with your car :-) But yeah, it's a two way process which I forget everytime :-)
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Originally Posted by ovekvam
It works a lot better with manual gears. It will only kill the engine if you shift to neutral and disengage the clutch. Press the clutch pedal, and the engine comes alive again. If you accidently choke the engine yourself, just step on the clutch pedal, and the car starts it again for you. Except for stop and go traffic, I leave this feature enabled.
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I have a manual too. I think the mechanical procedure of starting/restarting the 116d is rather weak. The driveline doesn't seem to like it and it shakes/vibrates too much to my likings. Feels like it doesn't like it. Pretty noisy too.
In my wife's 2014 VW Golf TSI it's smooth as ever and nothing you'll normally notice... if it wasn't for the 0.5-1 second delay everytime you have to pull out on to the road/intersection it's working well :-) Not that I'm too happy with the Golf as there's constantly someting wrong with it, and it's bland. I had some semi-scary moments thinking I was accelerating and instead I just stood there and suddenly the car leaps forward. And even though I doubt she'd ever notice the system is there or what it is doing I had it coded.. so it's gone.
I will see if I can code the "problem" away..