stalling

Pickle1970 · Oct 17, 2014

Had my new 2.0 TDI sportback since September and absolutely loving it, but i'm forever stalling the ****** thing.

My Honda Civic 2.2 dti used kind of drive itself in 1st and 2nd gears and at really low revs could pull away from lights easily, my A3 stalls quite a lot but i'm getting the hang of the change.......on a positive note at least it starts itself automatically

anyone else find this on changing their car from something else?

veeeight · Oct 17, 2014

Have you got Hold Assist?

There have been a few threads about stalling, have a search with "Stall".

Pickle1970 · Oct 17, 2014

Haven't a clue? if it was an option then i didn't spec it. it's an S-Line so if that comes as standard then yes i have it. If i stop at lights and let the engine cut off it does engage the brake a little so i guess it has it.

makes you look a proper plum

Liquidfusion-S3 · Oct 17, 2014

It's a button next to the Electronic handbrake

Pickle1970 · Oct 17, 2014

in that case, no i don't have it.

veeeight · Oct 17, 2014

No, you don't have it

But have a search for the previous threads, quite a few owners stalling their cars, until they learnt to "give it more gas"

Snibo · Oct 17, 2014

Yes, I experienced this during the first few weeks.
I'm used to pulling out of Junctions / Standing Start in 2nd gear in previous cars and getting up to flow speed really quickly.

I put it down to the Cabrio being heavier at the back maybe.
Glad to know that this isn't the reason.

Always put it in 1st gear now with this car - too many stalls / near stalls.
You REALLY have to give it some welly otherwise - and I'm not always confident when it gets to that near stall point of is it / isn't it going to.

Also, I find 2nd gear really "crunchy" when the car is cold going from 1st to 2nd or 3rd to 2nd.
Gets better as the car warms up.
Previous car did this as well though - wonder why it's only 2nd gear :think:

Pickle1970 · Oct 17, 2014

Yes my gears are quite crunchy from 1st to 2nd as well.

Schuey · Oct 17, 2014

If you let the clutch out slowly the revs increase on their own......... It's particularly obvious on my S1.

Does yours do this?

cuke2u · Oct 17, 2014

One Thing have noticed that is different from the a3 to my ford's is that the anti-stall is less aggressive. On my mk4 2.0l mondeo I could pull away on hill with a load without using any throttle at all...

PhatGit · Oct 17, 2014

off topic, but why does the photo above make me think we are going to get a BHound poll about which cup holder you put the ashtray in?!

Snibo · Oct 17, 2014

PhatGit said:
off topic, but why does the photo above make me think we are going to get a BHound poll about which cup holder you put the ashtray in?!

Glad I'm not the only one to think that. Mine's in the other side !!

PhatGit · Oct 18, 2014

Mine too, but its blue, no red, no blue, no silver (sorry BH )

Relliott6879 · Oct 19, 2014

Liquidfusion-S3 said:
It's a button next to the Electronic handbrake

The button you describe is for the cabriolet roof, blanked off in hard tops.

chimperoo · Oct 20, 2014

mine was doing something similar but I assumed it was the Stop Start mechanism getting itself all hot and bothered (basically because it restarted itself).
I'll have to give it a thorough test later...

cemerson · Oct 20, 2014

Relliott6879 said:
The button you describe is for the cabriolet roof, blanked off in hard tops.

Erm, it's for hold assist in hard-tops, as already mentioned! Do they not let you spec Hold Assist on cabrios I wonder then?

cemerson · Oct 20, 2014

Seems they have to split the button in half for the Cabrios:

JohnM100 · Oct 20, 2014

Good find.
For two key things it seems a bit mad to put them next to each other.

I can see the "I was trying to raise the roof when the brake just released....."

cemerson · Oct 20, 2014

Yeh, does seem a bit mad. I would have thought the roof control would be in the same place as the panoramic sunroof control - up near the interior lights!

veeeight · Oct 20, 2014

^ um

Just stop and think about that for 2 seconds

cemerson · Oct 21, 2014

Ha, I have seen cabrios where it does still have some controls up there, there's still a frame so no reason why not...

cemerson · Oct 21, 2014

Here you go - there clearly are interior lights in the cabrio!

http://www.caricos.com/cars/a/audi/2015_audi_a3_cabrio/1024x768/54.html

veeeight · Oct 21, 2014

Yup, they are revised slimline interior lights, so not the same "pod" as the other models, so no roof switchgear ala pano roof

cemerson · Oct 21, 2014

Would still make sense to put a switch there - I've seen them there in other cabrios.

cemerson · Oct 21, 2014

Certainly a lot more sense than next to the handbrake with an identical looking switch!

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