Technical Start stop issue

[luigithefiat]

I have an issue with my start stop. When I am stopped in traffic (still in drive) and it is engaged if it’s more than a short moment the car bleeps and thinks I am in neutral, changing the gear back to neutral then back to drive doesn’t help - I need to turn the whole car off and back on again to get it to start driving again. Is this normal or is there an issue? For the first time this morning it said “stop stop can’t be connected” or something like that, turned the car on and off and it was fine. However, it did the same thing again today but with start stop being disengaged, I was waiting to turn right and it did it again! Any ideas at all? Or is it something I am doing. Thankyou! If it helps it’s a 2011 semi automatic model

 

[Baglady1990]

I’m not familiar with the semi automatic gearboxes but this sounds more like a gearbox issue .. the start stop feature won’t work if the gearbox is playing up

 

[steveras57]

I’m not familiar with the semi automatic gearboxes but this sounds more like a gearbox issue .. the start stop feature won’t work if the gearbox is playing up

The duologic gearbox is well known for causing many and varied problems with many different issues reported by a wide range of members, if you sit on the forum long enough you will get a list of faults as long as your arm and as many different opinions on how to solve them! only commonality is everything is both hard to diagnose and ultimately expensive! therefore my advice is to sell the dam thing now and get a manual gearbox car otherwise I MO A L your in for a world of pain frustration and expense!.

 

[jrkitching]

Is this normal or is there an issue?

Read this thread.

I'd agree this could be a good time to get rid of this car.

 

[Tropicalmike]

Many different issues with the engine and dualogic will bring up "stop-start not available" by default . It is blocked so it doesn't stop the engine that might be difficult to restart. From your description it does sound more like something with the dualogic rather than the stop start , I dont have any experience with dualogic only a gearbox manual and getting start stop working . You might benefit from have someone check for Fault codes from MultiECUscan. This is the link to read about how start stop works and includes the dualogic gear box

https://lab-aftersales.fiat.com/elearn/main_content.aspx?markID=1&markName=Fiat&modelID=312000000&modelName=150+-+500&valID=312000006&validityName=0.9+Twinair+&DocumentTypeActive=manuale&documentType=Manual&DocumentTypeId=8&languageId=2&languageNavId=2&regionId=2&VIN=ZFA3120000J259644&nodeName=PETROL+INJECTION+SYSTEM&nodeName=PETROL+ENGINES+ELECTRONIC+MANAGEMENT&nodeName=STARTING+AND+RECHARING&nodeID=312008844&nodeName=%20STOP