New S3 S-Tronic... Hold Assist?

[rich83]

With the S-Tronic do you need hold assist?

Can you hold the car at the lights with the electronic handbrake??

Whats the deal for 90quid?

Thanks
Rich

[Cupramax]

With only 2 pedals i really cant see the need for it...

[AGK]

Hai,

Currently when at the lights you leave it in drive and hold your foot on the brake. With the Hold Assist it will hold the brake pedal indefinitely.

Got it in the Merc, it was great till it stopped working lol.

[Adrian E]

You don't need it, but it is more useful than you might think. Depends if you spend a lot of time in traffic and value not blinding the driver behind with a high level brake light!

It's rarely specced from what I've seen but having experienced it in an S4 I can see the appeal

[rich83]

Ok.. so what happens if you pull up to the lights, come to and stop, flick on the e-hanbrake and release the footbrake? Will it hold it, or will it try and pull away like the old DSG cars do?

[Dr G]

Nope, it's happy just sitting there.

Hold assist is a good extra, mind. Works very well in practice.

[rich83]

OK... thanks :-)

[Adrian E]

I think in the past the advice has been to not release the footbrake with the parking brake applied on a non-hill hold assist car if it's still in Drive as the electronics assume you're preparing to pull away and torque is being applied to the transmission? Obviously not enough to overcome the parking brake but potentially enough to induce wear that you don't need to

[SteBrown91]

If the system is the same as before the 90 quid is a con. Almost all VAG cars over a certain age have it fitted but its enabled/disabled in VAGCOM

Find someone or a VAG specialist with VAGCOM and get it enabled

[va1o]

SteBrown91 said:

If the system is the same as before the 90 quid is a con. Almost all VAG cars over a certain age have it fitted but its enabled/disabled in VAGCOM

Find someone or a VAG specialist with VAGCOM and get it enabled

Yeah I was about to say the same

Find it pretty ridiculous Audi are still charging for it too given VW provide Hill hold standard.

[rich83]

Ahh ok. I have vcds so i can enable it if needs be. Thanks.

[AGK]

Hold assist has a button on centre console and requires a different abs pump.

Not as simple as ticking the box with VCDS.

[SteBrown91]

AGK said:

Hold assist has a button on centre console and requires a different abs pump.

Not as simple as ticking the box with VCDS.

Ahh must be a different system to what VW use.

[rich83]

AGK said:

Hold assist has a button on centre console and requires a different abs pump.

Not as simple as ticking the box with VCDS.

Thanks bro.... :-)

[jimmyjimjim]

Depends, you might well already have the 1AT pump, and just need the switch and coding.

If you have the 1AS pump, then it would be bloody expensive.

Also, it doesn't work with the stop start system, one or the other.