37 also from rural Cambridgeshire.
Came from a long run of Honda Civics. The engine choices were very limited, and the new styling left me cold (wife still has one, mind you).
Now in a A4 Sline Avant with all the toys. It's a significantly better car than the Civic.
Having come from a NA manual petrol engine (VTEC) before, I'm used to applying throttle in a certain way which seems to work OK with the Stronic TDI I have. There's a touch of lag, but once you understand the characteristics of the engine, you just adjust and pre-empt. I have a much bigger issue...
Mine does it. It's a minor irritation.
The stop-go is dangerous though and kicks in at terrible points rolling up to junctions. Will get round to disabling it this weekend
Thanks - I'd previously dismissed it.... as wasn't sure that it is actually compatible with the B9 platform though? Doesn't seem like it from the description?
Well you have a different car/engine etc to me....plus there's no opinion involved in saying losing engine power at random is dangerous, because that isn't an opinion it's just common sense.
You drive up to a junction and prepare to stop. As you brake to either stop or go depending on "oncoming" traffic, you then see it is safe to go, as long as you keep moving. You try to go, but stop/start kicks in just before you do, leaving you completely stranded with no power. It's at least a...
It happened rolling up a slip road, wasn;t quite at a stop, might have been the microsecond I stopped moving possibly.
Truly cannot see how it would remotely save fuel. It's just faulty in my view, and dangerous to boot.
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