Used stop start yesterday a few times on my new car and love it. Its an Octavia 2.0 diesel manual. Anyhoo it is not clear whether you are supposed to sit there with your foot on the brake whilst it is stopped. This is the way I have been doing it though. I guess because you are not using your handbrake you should leave your foot on the brake for safety reasons but I don't like the brake lights blinding the people behind whilst doing this.

 

Sorry if I am just being dumb and the answer is obvious :-)

You've got a manual, you're used to fiddling about down there so, use the hand brake if you wish, does it keep the car from re-starting ?, I've got a DSG I just keep my foot on the brake.

You've got a manual, you're used to fiddling about down there so, use the hand brake if you wish, does it keep the car from re-starting ?, I've got a DSG I just keep my foot on the brake.

 

Yes, the handrake should be off for it to work. A soon as you press the clutch the engine starts again.

Yours is different to mine then!  As soon as I'm in neutral with clutch up the car stops. Hand brake or foot brake

On mine, the engine stops when the car is in neutral with my foot off the clutch. I can have either my foot on the brake or the handbrake on. The engine starts again when I press on the clutch, or as I have found if the car rolls a certain distance (only about 2 feet).

Yours is different to mine then! As soon as I'm in neutral with clutch up the car stops. Hand brake or foot brake

Only tried it yesterday. Maybe I will try the handbrake then. Could have sworn skoda manual says handbrake should be off. I have been known to be wrong on occasion though

Sorry your answer confused me, if you, stop the car with your footbrake the stop-start system stops the engine, put gearbox outta of gear the engine stays off, put the handbrake on the engine stays off, release the footbrake the engine starts ?

 

Why don't you just keep your footbrake on and put the car in 1st gear, release the footbrake hit the gas, your gone...  sorry does that not work ?

Sorry your answer confused me, if you, stop the car with your footbrake the stop-start system stops the engine, put gearbox outta of gear the engine stays off, put the handbrake on the engine stays off, release the footbrake the engine starts ?

 

Why don't you just keep your footbrake on and put the car in 1st gear, release the footbrake hit the gas, your gone...  sorry does that not work ?

 

Is this aimed at me?

Likewise only collected the car Saturday and only done 90 miles, but been playing to learn the way it works.  Like meb says the car must be stationary too, which is good. I sometimes knock a car out of gear and coast the 20 or 30 m towards a red light.  Did that and engine stays on (so brake and steering powered) until the car came to a stop under braking, then the engine stopped.

I'm impressed by how quickly it fires up to go again.

Likewise only collected the car Saturday and only done 90 miles, but been playing to learn the way it works.  Like meb says the car must be stationary too, which is good. I sometimes knock a car out of gear and coast the 20 or 30 m towards a red light.  Did that and engine stays on (so brake and steering powered) until the car came to a stop under braking, then the engine stopped.

I'm impressed by how quickly it fires up to go again.

 

Sounds like mine then. I don't tend to coast in neutral but if I do, like you, the engine doesn't switch off. I am also impressed with the speed of starting again, several people have said that they don't think they could use Stop/Start but I say that by the time your clutch pedal is fully down the engine has already started so its as if nothing happened!

Is this aimed at me?

Sorry no, aimed at OP on post 3 

I noticed neutral, clutch out and zero speed =off. Regardless of any braking. SS doesn't enable when parking though, door open, seat belt unbuckled etc. Works like a dream but amazes me how many sensors it must have to detect all those checks. Hope they last...

Well yes, but that is the case with any modern car feature isn't it?  Great while it works.....

 

Tbh, with all the electronics in the octy ...jeez that's a scary thought.... Let's not go there.

oh! I have something different. Car in neutral, foot on the break, engine stops but if I apply hand break, car will ask me to start manually. if no hand break was applied, then it does restart when clutch is pressed. tested this many times now on different runs. should i be concerned

SS doesn't enable when parking though, door open, seat belt unbuckled etc.

I could be wrong but I recall there needing a certain period of time for seat belt being unbuckled for.

Stupid question but I wonder what happens if you DONT wear a seat belt....drive car...activate SS....is it clever enough to remember driver doesnt use seat belt.

I thought if the drivers seat belt wasn't plugged in SS was disabled?

You've got a manual, you're used to fiddling about down there so, use the hand brake if you wish, does it keep the car from re-starting ?, I've got a DSG I just keep my foot on the brake.

I'm puzzled why having DSG means you don't use the handbrake.  The driver behind doesn't care whether your car is DSG or manual your brake lights will still cause unnecessary dazzle.  Note: I also have DSG and always use the handbrake if going to be stationary for more than a few seconds.

I'm puzzled why anyone thinks that brake lights are dazzling?

 

Personally, I'd rather sit there with my brake lights on - that way I know the car coming up behind me will notice (or, at least, if they don't then they have absolutely no excuse or wiggle room to blame me).

 

The only advantage of putting your handbrake on is to stop you then being shunted into the car in front, which would then be your fault... oh, and hill starts, but hill start assist takes care of that one these days.

Driving home after just picking my new car up today, stopped at a red light thought the engine had cut out! Automatically dipped the clutch to restart with key... and the car restarted itself. I'd forgotten all about the stop/start. I have no idea whether I had left my foot on the brake, had applied the handbrake or both. First time I've driven a car with this feature, I was impressed though.

Coming back to the large number of sensors. If the speed sensor fails it could be very dangerous as if the SS kicks in as the power steering is locked. Only plus point is you may be able to watch DVD'S in motion if the speed sensor is the same.

Coming back to the large number of sensors. If the speed sensor fails it could be very dangerous as if the SS kicks in as the power steering is locked. Only plus point is you may be able to watch DVD'S in motion if the speed sensor is the same.

 

Sorry, but that's complete rubbish - the engine may no longer be running, but the electrical systems are all still available, and that includes the electrically assisted power steering.  If you use too much electricity (e.g. by having heated seats and/or air-con on), that's when the car will automatically start back up again before you press the clutch.

 

I'll assume you didn't actually mean that the steering lock comes on when Start/Stop activates...

I think he meant the power assisted steering goes off.

 

 

The only advantage of putting your handbrake on is to stop you then being shunted into the car in front, which would then be your fault... oh, and hill starts, but hill start assist takes care of that one these days.

 

No it won't, it would be the fault of the car that hit you.

Sorry, but that's complete rubbish - the engine may no longer be running, but the electrical systems are all still available, and that includes the electrically assisted power steering.  If you use too much electricity (e.g. by having heated seats and/or air-con on), that's when the car will automatically start back up again before you press the clutch.

 

Again no, the power steering doesn't work when the engine is stopped by SS, try it, as soon as you try to turn the wheel the engine starts.

Again no, the power steering doesn't work when the engine is stopped by SS, try it, as soon as you try to turn the wheel the engine starts.

 

Hmm.  That's a bit silly then - the power steering still works on my 1 Series when Start/Stop turns the engine off... apologies, assumed it would be the same for all cars as the ignition is still on.