I own a MK3 Octavia VRS with manual transmission. I had this happen to me a couple of times now while driving into properties which are up a 'hill' with narrow drive ways and on a higher gradient than normal (probably 45-50 degree inclines, if not more). The climb is fine but for whatever reason if I stop midway and put it in 1st and push the throttle the brakes stay engaged and I couldn't disengage them; the engine shuts down eventually. I restart the car and sometimes it still stays engaged. I'm trying to decode what it means, would be interesting to know the reason.

 

Has anyone had similar experience and have a possible explanation.

Edited 3 August, 201510 yr by vEnOmoz

Sounds like a fault to me... Take it to the dealers.

45-50 degrees...that is very steep.

45-50 degrees...that is very steep.

Very very steep, that's proper off-road 4x4 territory steep.....

Think you need to check that with an inclinometer.... You'd never get out of the car and stand up. Either way its a dealers job under warranty.

Dont you think is it handbrake? Hillstart assist always let you once clutch is released, but e-handbrake can stay on. I can not remember in which condition. If handbrake works , i would not bring back, if really hillstart assist - i would.

For handbrake- read the manual.

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If you stop on the hill, then remove you foot from the foot brake but keep the clutch disengaged, does it roll back after the three or so seconds it remains active?. If it rolls back it would seem to indicate the auto release works ok, but as its such a steep slope maybe you aren't giving it enough revs to make it thinks its ok to release, hence it doesn't and it stalls.

Dont you think is it handbrake? Hillstart assist always let you once clutch is released, but e-handbrake can stay on. I can not remember in which condition. If handbrake works , i would not bring back, if really hillstart assist - i would.

For handbrake- read the manual.

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The Octavia has a standard manual brake.

Either way I doubt any Octavia could drive up a slope of 45 degrees and I certainly wouldn't expect the handbrake alone to hold it even if it could.