Start/Stop - Experiences?

[bitchstewie]

I'm finding the stop/start on my mk7 Golf a little hard to get used to - it's my first stop/start car so I'm not really sure what to expect.

For example, if I pull off the drive in the morning, so it's been sat 12 hours, it will often kick in if I have to stop at the junction a couple of hundred yards down the road.

Drive a mile and stop at the island at the end of that road - doesn't kick in.

Drive to work and at some random stop in traffic it will kick in, but often doesn't.

Arrive at work and drop the DSG box into "Park" and it kills the engine.

Pretty much the same in reverse heading home.

I was expecting it to be a little more predictable - is this normal?

[bitchstewie]

thebraketester said:

It will only kick in if the engine is up to a certain temp I believe.

Can't be though else it wouldn't kick in at the end of my road when the engine is absolutely stone cold?

[bitchstewie]

I'm not at all sure there's anything wrong with it - I simply don't have any other point of reference on how it should behave on this make and model of car, hence asking other Golf 7 owners on here.

[bitchstewie]

Thanks, and again to be clear I've no reason to think it isn't working, I guess I simply expected for it to be stopping every time the thing went into auto-hold (being a DSG it tends to get put in "D" then driven to destination then in "P", it's never in neutral).