General Hill holder

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General Hill holder

Our Chrysler delta hill holder simply never appears to work, is this the same with all bravo./delta etc ?

Are you using it correctly? It only works if you have the car in gear and your foot on the clutch and brake. No handbrake as this stops it.
Once you take your foot off the brake the car should stay staionary for a few seconds before it lets go and starts rolling, its enough time for you to get bite and pull away.

The same in reverse as well, if you are reversing uphill it will hold in the same manner.
 
I don't actively think about using the function but in all the time I've had the car over 4 months and never noticed it working ever I will have to try to deliberately use it and see what happens with the lack of power of the 2.0 multijet from a standstill especially when cold it's a shame it doesn't work better
 
Mine works great. I always miss it when I get in my wifes Honda Jazz.
 
Well I got to a junction with a nice slope on it today in normal driving light braking it didn't hold but once I'd stamped on the pedal slightly harder it worked for the first time ever since owning the car, what a stupid system just braking hard enough to bring the car to rest really ought to be good enough, I now know the technique so if we take the delta rather than the mx5 I will try it out in the lakes next week
 
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Well I got to a junction with a nice slope on it today in normal driving light braking it didn't hold but once I'd stamped on the pedal slightly harder it worked for the first time ever since owning the car, what a stupid system just braking hard enough to bring the car to rest really ought to be good enough, I now know the technique so if we take the delta rather than the mx5 I will try it out in the lakes next week

If you are going uphill, gravity will have assisted braking. Once you have stopped, gravity will be pulling you babck down again, so more brake force will be required.
 
think about how the system might work

you stop the car
you have to stay with foot applied to brake to stop it rolling back
the car detects you are stopped on a slope
it keeps the brake applied using the pressure you put into the brakes

ergo unless you apply sufficient pressure when stationary it cannot apply hill holder
 
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think about how the system might work

you stop the car
you have to stay with foot applied to brake to stop it rolling back
the car detects you are stopped on a slope
it keeps the brake applied using the pressure you put into the brakes

ergo unless you apply sufficient pressure when stationary it cannot apply hill holder

Yeh sort of but if you just apply enough pressure to hold the car the hill holder doesn't work you have to,at least initially, press harder once stopped to kick it into action tbh nearly might as well engage the handbrake ..............
 
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