So something odd happened this morning. Got into the car, foot on brake, push start ---> starts cranking and then just stops. Almost like when you turn the key on an older car and stop turning the key before the engine starts up. Odd, but pushed the button again and it fires up fine.

 

Drive 20+ miles and get to a gate. Stop at gate and SS kicks in and engine shuts down. Gate opens and I take my foot off the brake and nothing happens. Just get a message saying "start car manually". So had to put car back into P, fire up again and got going.

 

Any ideas what the cause could be? No error messages on the dash.

9 hours ago, indyjukebox said:

So something odd happened this morning. Got into the car, foot on brake, push start ---> starts cranking and then just stops. Almost like when you turn the key on an older car and stop turning the key before the engine starts up. Odd, but pushed the button again and it fires up fine.

 

Drive 20+ miles and get to a gate. Stop at gate and SS kicks in and engine shuts down. Gate opens and I take my foot off the brake and nothing happens. Just get a message saying "start car manually". So had to put car back into P, fire up again and got going.

 

Any ideas what the cause could be? No error messages on the dash.

 

 

Only thing i find is you need to start the engine manually if you remove your seat belt , open a door or leave the engine turned off via drop start for a long period. (15 mins I think it was.) and the auto hold put the handbrake on too.. Green light went to red.

I may have taken my seatbelt off. I knew that opening the door would deactivate SS, but did not realise taking your belt off affected it as well. It did it again this morning and I cannot remember if I had unbuckled myself. Presumably lowering the window is not related to SS deactivating?

 

What really worried me was the unsuccessful cranking the day before. 

Edited 29 March, 20179 yr by indyjukebox

Sounds like an issue you have  as i tried What I typed earlier and it didn't ask me to restart manually..........

Sounds daft....do you park on an incline at all?   Bonnet raised higher than boot? 

Not at all, parked on the level.

 

Neither faults have reappeared. The SS not restarting might have been my seatbelt; as I do take it off to reach out and swipe the access card against the security post.