Hill Hold Assist - Is Mine Working?

[geoffbland]

I got a V6 manual Emira several weeks ago; I am not sure hill hold assist is working at all?

From my understanding, from the manual and reading this forum, if I have clutch in and foot on brake, then when I release the foot brake the electronic hand brake is meant to come on for 2 seconds or until I apply throttle.

In normal driving I’m always on the biting point to hold the car so it’s not really an issue. But when I try to test it, the car never seems to hold, on any hill I immediately start rolling back once I lift off the brake.

Also, three times I’ve had the car seem to unexpectedly brake as I pull away but this has only happened on a flat road, possibly I just stalled the car but I’m sure I’ve seen the handbrake light flicker when this happens.

I’m not sure what to make of all this.

Does the handbrake light come on when hill-hold is active?

Is there a setting that turns off hill-hold assist that I am missing?

What type of steepness of hill does hill-hold need to activate?

 

[netsinah]

My V6 manual "hill hold" works just fine, on steeper grades, as others have mentioned.

One thing I now routinely do: when stopped on a steeper incline, with clutch in and pedal brake pressed, just before I go forward, I'll briefly "punch it" (accelerate; taking my foot off the brake pedal) to disengage the "hill hold", then I slowly let the clutch out, while accelerating normally forward. I find this creates a smoother and more in control forward motion, when coming from a stop on an incline.

I practice this every work day, when leaving my office parkade exit ramp, which is quite steep. I learned to do this, after stalling once when trying to accelerate forward when the "hill hold" stubbornly refused to disengage, making me feel like an idiot.