Hi all! I'm a new owner of a 500 lounge 1.2 dualogic that I picked up a week ago. I've spent a lot of time on these forums and have found some exceptionally useful information so far that has helped me understand a few things better 
I do love the car a whole lot, I've been wanting one for a good year or more and I did test drive three of these including this one before committing to buying, but I have one slight issue I'm still trying to figure out and don't know if this is a technical thing or whether I just can't drive it properly! There have been a few occasions in the last week where the car and I have not been totally in synch when pulling away from a brief stop, like the brief pause at a minor junction or a roundabout before pulling off again. I can only describe the issue as 'bunny hopping' as it pulls away. Had one pretty awful moment today pulling on to a roundabout where it just lurched out and did it's little bunny hops before settling down. Embarrassing, and probably not good for the car
I've come to some kind of conclusion that this happens when the car is about to power down with the SS when I then interrupt that by accelerating. I have tried to overcome it by putting the gearbox in manual mode, but it still happens as per today. I have not yet tried switching off the SS as most of the time it works fine, but I can see it coming at this rate.
Anyone else experienced issues where it doesn't actually have time to power down fully? Is that what this is likely to be or is there something else I could be missing? I'm not a 'hard' driver so I don't think this is a case of accelerating too hard when pulling off, but this small issue is making me pretty nervous now whenever I have to stop briefly anywhere and that's not helping!
Any tips thoroughly welcomed!
I do love the car a whole lot, I've been wanting one for a good year or more and I did test drive three of these including this one before committing to buying, but I have one slight issue I'm still trying to figure out and don't know if this is a technical thing or whether I just can't drive it properly! There have been a few occasions in the last week where the car and I have not been totally in synch when pulling away from a brief stop, like the brief pause at a minor junction or a roundabout before pulling off again. I can only describe the issue as 'bunny hopping' as it pulls away. Had one pretty awful moment today pulling on to a roundabout where it just lurched out and did it's little bunny hops before settling down. Embarrassing, and probably not good for the car
I've come to some kind of conclusion that this happens when the car is about to power down with the SS when I then interrupt that by accelerating. I have tried to overcome it by putting the gearbox in manual mode, but it still happens as per today. I have not yet tried switching off the SS as most of the time it works fine, but I can see it coming at this rate.
Anyone else experienced issues where it doesn't actually have time to power down fully? Is that what this is likely to be or is there something else I could be missing? I'm not a 'hard' driver so I don't think this is a case of accelerating too hard when pulling off, but this small issue is making me pretty nervous now whenever I have to stop briefly anywhere and that's not helping!
Any tips thoroughly welcomed!
