It certainly does

Fortunately not. However' date=' the vRS cuts the fuel as soon as you hit the brakes, so when learners get the wrong pedal (which is in my experience very rare) a quick dab of brakes shuts the engine off nicely.

Chris[/quote']

Does this only occur in gear? - I heel & toe on pretty much every downchange (for smoothness not boy-receryness) and the throttle will blip under braking with the clutch pressed.

Digital potentiometer? :confused: Blimey, those germans.

Just a posh resistor

Does that mean you can't do left foot braking?

No chance, just kills the engines fuelling off and you slow down. Mind you, it probably saves the brakes from a roasting.

Chris

Does this only occur in gear? - I heel & toe on pretty much every downchange (for smoothness not boy-receryness) and the throttle will blip under braking with the clutch pressed.

Hi Steve

I have persevered with heel and toeing and it does work to blip the revs. When I first noticed the problem was in left foot braking. There appears to be around a quater of a second delay before the juice is cut. I am guessing that it may be load dependent because you can rev the engine in neutral. Having said that, heel and toeing in a diesel at such low revs seems a bit pointless. Used to use it more on 7500rpm motors.

Chris

I find it really helps going from say 4th - 2nd, really smooths the downchange so you have to slip the clutch for less time and passengers don't notice the change as much.

Superb cuts the throttle as well when you press the brakes, I find it particularly annoying after you have driven through standing water and want to apply the brakes just enough to sweep the water of the discs & pads but dont want to slow down. Bit silly really, we've managed for years without throttle cut so why bother now!!

Have a feeling it's probably to reduce fuel consumption/emissions in some form, but who knows

Maybe it's a safety thing for twits like me with biiig feet, so hitting both pedals at once still acheives effective braking!

I noticed this annoyance when trying to bed brakes down a long straight road, gave up in the end.

You can blip the throttle to change down, but try blipping it really hard, it just won't as long as you're braking. It seems to be stuck around 2500 rpm? Anyone tested this?

Andy.

Maybe it's a safety thing for twits like me with biiig feet' date=' so hitting both pedals at once still acheives effective braking!

I noticed this annoyance when trying to bed brakes down a long straight road, gave up in the end.

You can blip the throttle to change down, but try blipping it really hard, it just won't as long as you're braking. It seems to be stuck around 2500 rpm? Anyone tested this?

Andy.[/quote']

Exactly what I found

Chris

I find it really helps going from say 4th - 2nd, really smooths the downchange so you have to slip the clutch for less time and passengers don't notice the change as much.

Hi Steve

If you are slipping the clutch on downchanges, or using H&T in general driving, you may want to try braking to the required speed then changing down instead. I think it is reffered to as brakes to slow, gear to go.

I used to use H&T to avoid the driven wheels locking up when coming down the gears on a high revving petrol car, where the difference between off throttle and change matching RPM was around 5000 on an engine revving up to 7500RPM or so. I cant say as I have really seen the need to use it on the Fabia yet.

Remember, slipping the clutch is wearing the clutch, on the gas or not.

Chris

I used to have a great laugh in my Boat tail Alfa Spider NOT heel and toe'ing on down changes (even though its easy in Alfas).

Enter roundabout - knock it down a cog - rear wheels lock up - sideways - back on the gas - drift -

Cant do that in modern cars!!