Has anyone else noticed this with their Fabia?

I was driving along the country roads sat in 6th as I entered the village i touched the brakes a tad and brought it down to30mph, i then (for some reason) took my foot off the accellerator and the car just stayed flat at 30mph all the way thru the village! (about 4 miles!)

So I started to wonder

I went to a straight road thats off the beat and track and tried again

But I couldn't stall the car!

Even when I brought it down to 20mph in 6th!

Has anyone else noticed this?

Steve

It is quite difficult to stall alright but is possible and makes one almighty bang when it does

Yeah I've stalled it a couple of times on a busy road, just after I got the car and it made a bang.

I was told by the salesman that the clutch pulls the car up a hill, so I tried it one day, went up a hill in first gear, took my feet of all the pedals and the car pulls up the hill at a steady 10mph there was times where I was thinking this would stall but it did not.

David

I tend to pull away all the time using just the clutch and then once moving accelerate....anybody know if this is bad for the clutch?

Try pulling away in anything above 4th and it'll stall If you're already moving, the momentum and anti-stall seem to be quite effective and that's what you experienced. Probably not very good for the car though

Chris

When stuck in traffic in rush hour and crawling I hardly ever need to put my foot on the clutch if the traffic is just edging along I can take my feet off the pedals and the car just keeps crawling along. I to keep think surley this will stall in a minuite but it never does.

I was wondering if this was good or bad for the clutch because on one hand I hardly use it where as normally my foot would be on the clutch all the way home nearly but wasn't sure what the full effect might be.

your only using the clutch to engage the engine power to the wheels as per normal, so why would it be bad?

just as your not increasing the revs to move off at any great speed doesnt make any difference imoa. i used to do it to my old orion diesel all the time and that made it to past 130,000 miles on the original clutch!

Yeh it makes it a very pleasurable car to drive in crawling traffic, although I do tend to wind up a lot of other drivers as I am moving so slowly that they have to stop start while I just creep along

It is quite difficult to stall alright but is possible and makes one almighty bang when it does

tell me about it am teaching my girlfriend to drive well i was anyway till i got my ban

and she managed to stall it a good few times and did it hurt my neck yes it did

Diesels in general are hard to stall, at least in my experience anyway.

I learnt in a diesel, and never had to use the accelerator in 1st gear. First car was a small petrol, and required acceleration whilst rising from bite point.

Using the tdi furby now, and is a lot more flexible. Haven't stalled in a long time, last time was probably 10th driving lesson or so ( 18 months ago).

My dad managed to stall his automatic Mundano once - might have been something to do with the sacks of cement and sand he had in the back!

Yeh it makes it a very pleasurable car to drive in crawling traffic, although I do tend to wind up a lot of other drivers as I am moving so slowly that they have to stop start while I just creep along

Yeah I get that feeling the poor sods having to keep stop starting.

My clutch on my last car went at 60k prob cos it got hammered for 2 hours everyday with my foot stuck on it.

P.S. mines not a disel

I have never tried to not use the accelerator though that just sounds mad

The first time I stalled mine I thought I'd hit a brick wall or something, the noise was that bad!

I do prefer sticking it in 2nd for slow moving traffic rather than the jerkiness and loudness of first when you have to keep coming on and off the gas. Didn't know if it was good or bad for the car though... but then as long as you don't floor it there isn't major labouring of the engine. I don't do it in higher gears though.

I have stalled it in 2nd turning into an unmade gravel road at quite low speed, with massive potholes, one of which the front wheel entered, and slowed the car sufficiently.... it is quite a bang!

Flywheels won't appreciate trying to pull away from tickover with any enthusiasm, but the diesels do pull well at tickover. Even my pd100 did, as standard.

nice to know - I always try to be 'mechanically sympathetic'. Will gove it a go.

And the Bang it makes when you stall is pretty loud! (I only did it twice, once with Xav in the car, lol)

Diesels do tend to make a bang when they stall. I remember pulling up to pick up a friend in my Polo SDI. I leaned over to let her in, took my foot off the clutch, still in 1st... BANG. She lept a mile.

Diesels do tend to make a bang when they stall.

Wonder if it's a VAG thing as I've not noticed it on any of the other diesels I've driven ... and stalled?

Chris

pulling away in the incorrect gear wears out the clutch quicker and eventually will rip the clutch out.

Last week the other half thought she had hit a bollard turns out it was her foot slipping of the clutch as it got caught on the stupid mat, made a hell of a bang.

David

I tried not using the accelerator last night that in traffic to pull off that is just a little bit mad.

I normally give it a bit of gas to get me going and then take my feet off the pedals to crawl.

Last night I found when just lifting of the clutch with no gas there seemed to be a very small juder is this the clutch working extra hard?

When stuck in traffic i use the clutch almost all the time. Between clutch and gears i slow down/speed up without the need for using accelerator/brakes. I regularly go from standstill up to 4th or even 5th gear without using the accelerator. Makes me laugh watching other drivers accelerate brake accelerate brake etc when i barely have to move my foot.

I once stalled my car, only had it a couple of days, going over a cattle grid too slowly. I though the bang was the cattle grid coming up & hitting the under side of my car. Brown pants moment indeed. :-)

my my I have opened a can of worms!

I have also tried the no gas start - mine didn't judder tho

Steve

I tend to lift my foot off the clutch first, then gently apply blip to the throttle in 1st and change up to 2nd - that was in the vRS. Now in the 5 speed Fab Estate I may blip the throttle a smidgen longer before changing up, but I dont accelerate 'hard' in 1st. The Estate is 100% stock.