I agree, what I’m saying is I don’t think it’s a fault, I think it’s intentional. I’ve had 4 cars and 1 van with start/stop from various manufacturers and having to keep your foot on the brake has been the case in every one.
Good points
@andys @Dieseldonkey This is one the greatest things in this forum – sharing information. I really value people sharing their knowledge, findings, ideas, etc. in all areas of T6’ing – and around.
Unfortunately, that shutdown - door open/seat belt off - was the only one of that kind. It hadn’t happen before and hasn’t happened since then, even though I have tried to duplicate it to find the "rule". Just makes me think that current “random” behavior could even be a combination of leftover software pieces from other market areas. Also unexplained engine stalls reported elsewhere came to my mind.
Either engine restart when DSG in Park-position releasing footbrake doesn’t happen always – no more than 1/4 of times
, which is what makes it quite annoying. I actually have learned to release seat belt first, then foot off the brake – which works, no restarts
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A kind of bottom line, which also my dealer agrees, is that if the behavior of StartStop in the cases above would be predictable, it would be easy to accept.
The document in thread
Stop start - when does it become active describes the conditions but not very precisely leaving room for interpretations. Fortunately there are a few very definite unambiguous conditions – seat belt, door open, outside temperature, have to reach 10km/h. Although these cases are not the key things but they are the tool to prove things are not the way are designed to be.
So my wishful thinking is that some day VW has to have their software on the table, perhaps for other reasons, and when doing their test runs they will stumble across these peculiarities
, too.
Re the above, I was told that there was an update for the ECU (T6 EU6) scheduled to be available in August. But at the time they informed me that new date is scheduled somewhere around March
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