I see someone else has mentioned about the start stop system mine does not seem to want to stop when you put the handbrake on and knock it out of gear the light with the cross through  appears and the engine does not stop. How can I make the start stop system work properly. Also when the car is ticking over it is doing so at 1000rpm which is to fast if you switch the engine off then on again it will drop to 600rpm but drive and stop and it will stay at 1000rpm and also the cooling fan comes on after as little as 3 miles.

 

Can someone check what rpm their vRS TDI ticks over at.

The car is trying to do a DPF regen and you're interrupting it that's why the fans are running and it's ticking over at 1k rpm.  Stop/Start won't work during a regen.

 

Oh and the handbrake has no effect on stop/start.

Take it for a good run down a bypass or motorway for 20 miles or so and make sure you keep the revs at a steady 2000-2500 ish and the regen will happen.

 

Others have reported quite a few regens in the first 1000 miles, then it seems to settle down after that.

Yep an active regeneration in process, as said go and give the engine a bit of a run or drive in a lower gear than you would normally keeping the revs up.

I had about 3 or 4 in the first 1000 miles, seems to have calmed down and haven't noticed a regen for a while now

I get at least 1 noticeable regen once a fortnight and I'm just on about 5500 miles. Have had the car 13 weeks?

My old one I only noticed twice in its whole 3 years of ownership so not super happy about the frequency on this one as you feel like you have to keep driving till it finishes. Otherwise 5 minutes of the fan blowing the burnt coffee smell all through the garage.

You feel it when it starts as it drops power for an instant which is another give away too.

 

My old one I only noticed twice in its whole 3 years of ownership so not super happy about the frequency on this one as you feel like you have to keep driving till it finishes.

 

But you don't though.

But you don't though.

But if you don't how many times does it try before it gives up doing a completed cycle and then you get into the next level i.e warning light coming on etc etc.

If it takes 20 minutes and starts when the car gets up to temperature (it usually happens about 20 mins after start up)  it is never going to complete during the 30 minutes I take to get to/from work so.... The other day I drove 700km of open road driving i.e fast and it decided to do it on the way to work the first day after so...?