turbohater Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Is it just me or does anyone else think that the car pulls away far better and travels "smoother" if the Hill Assist is turned off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarksST Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 It can feel like that, it is something you need to get used to, I don't have an issue with it as my transits have had it a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Turned mine off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulyinthenorth Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Sometimes it really doesn't want you to go does it? You end up revving way higher than you should.. then when it snaps off you get whiplash.. haha. Other times it works as intended and you don't really notice it. I use it more in my ST that I did on the ZS. In the ZS whenever I was was stationary I was putting the car in neutral and clicking the brake on for auto stop-start. I don't have this on the ST so I'm out of that habit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff4155 Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 didn't know it could be switched off, but in my opinion it's working 100%, not that I am a first time driver, but it's good to know that the car won't stall if I'm parked against a hill, now if we can only get Elon Musk to tinker with it a bit and maybe the car will drive all on it's own ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadows Entity Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Turned it off on my work car... annoying if you're trying to parallel park on a hill waiting for the brakes to disengage.... Handbrake and clutch control B) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well Spoken Waffle Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 it would be nice to have an indicator to let you know it's engaged. if only we could re purpose the shift light into an hill assist is currently active don't over rev the engine else you'll look like a prat light. it'd be a tonne more useful, instead of trying to make me switch to 4th going slowly up hill 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toppy Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 How do you turn the hill assist off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Menu - vehicle settings - Hill Start assist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexp999 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 You can still stall the car with hill assist, it just holds the brakes for you. I have never had an issue with my Focus, always pulls away smoothly. I'd have thought the Fiesta drum brakes should make the release even smoother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff4155 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 I was thinking of something els, don't think I have Hill assist on my fiesta, what I do have is something that keeps the revs up no matter if I pull out the clutch completely, the car won't stall, It only moves slowly forward, as an automatic would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexp999 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Yeah that is anti-stall, still possible to stall it though. My old Focus used to over rev when I was backing out of my drive, really annoying as it sounded like I was incapable of driving, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillyallan Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Lol Alexp. I'd be the person walking by thinking idiot not realising you'd no control over that. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexp999 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 What's worse is that it didn't just over-rev, it did it in bursts. So it kept revving up and down, and me trying to steady it just made things worse, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff4155 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 that doesn't sound right, mine only kicks in if the revs are to low, like were any other car would have died Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexp999 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 My new Focus and my mums Focus are fine, my Fiesta was fine. Just my old Focus was a bit odd, already had a PCM update to sort out the unpredictable nature of the power, but it never changed the peculiar anti-stall implementation, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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