I have a '67 plate L&K, I remember until recently, the car would automatically apply the brake when coming to a stop, an example would be arriving at traffic lights. However, my wife noticed that this is no longer the case. We now find ourselves having to keep our foot on the brake, else the car will naturally creep if in 'Drive'

 

I've noticed we intermittently get a warning when starting the car when on the drive advising 'manoeuvre brake currently unavailable'

 

The question is, has anyone else experienced this, and are the two linked?

6 minutes ago, Hdsn555 said:

I have a '67 plate L&K, I remember until recently, the car would automatically apply the brake when coming to a stop, an example would be arriving at traffic lights. However, my wife noticed that this is no longer the case. We now find ourselves having to keep our foot on the brake, else the car will naturally creep if in 'Drive'

 

Sounds like you’ve turned autohold off.

Have you turned the auto hold off or set the handbrake to manual operation 

Thanks for the swift reply, My wife hates the stop/start, so wondering if she'd pressed that in error. I'll go and have a quick look now.

It’s a bit stupid that the two have very similar icons that don’t actually represent either function very well (an A inside a circular shape). I have to think hard to distinguish between them. They’re easily confused. 

that was the issue! thanks all.

 

I completely agree about the button icons, not at all clear.

 

 

Manoeuvre brake unavailable is to do with low speed automatic safety stopping using the parking sensors.

chances are you have a faulty parking sensor causing this, needs to be scanned to find out why.

 

It is 'Autohold' though and not 'Autobrake', so just needs to be enabled with the On / off switch.