It's been a while since I've posted here!

Our 2011 500 has an odd little issue that happens. Sometimes when you hold the car on the clutch (for example if you're paused on a hill waiting for oncoming traffic before turning) the general warning light will come on and the start/stop will become "unavailable", usually until your next journey.

It's not high revs or anything silly - I'm very good at holding it on the clutch at very low revs and we're only talking for a few seconds too... Anyone experienced this or got any ideas?

It's not a big deal, I very rarely use S/S anyway, but I just thought it was odd.

Operator error.

Don't use the clutch to hold. Use the brakes. Good way to wear them out faster.

I occasionally have an issue where the start/stop doesn't cut in (or is it out), and it will ignore it for the entire journey until I use the car again.

zanes said:

Operator error.

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Nothing wrong with my driving thank you very much.

I think he was referring to sitting on the clutch, i.e. wearing it out.

I'm sure this was quite an issue back in the early days of stop/start.

I have a feeling the advice was two fold:
Stop riding the clutch

An update that allowed the clutch to be in a mid-position (which is probably what the system is getting upset at here- why would it be in the middle position for so long? Must be a faulty sensor= log fault, temporarily shut off the system) for longer before flagging an error.