2016 Fiesta ST hill start assist deactivation?

[spoon]

I simply release the clutch just a bit until the engine starts to bog, then release the brake. I don't use the e-brake.

 

[LilPartyBox]

DAMN YOU HILL ASSIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSTTTT!

That was good lmao. But i still hate it

I've been driving manuals for the best part of 45 years (yes, I am an olephart), and think that the hill assist is the bees knees. It makes things so much simpler, and faster. Just out of interest, all those of you that have said that you know how to deal with hill starts without any sort of hill assist, how in detail do you do it? Just interested to see if it gells with the technique I developed over the years.

I simply release the clutch just a bit until the engine starts to bog, then release the brake. I don't use the e-brake.

^ same here. Stay hard core

 

[Olephart]

I've been driving manuals for almost as long (~41 years, only my very first car was a slushbox), and I've always (on VERY steep hills) used the hand brake with the locking button depressed and then used the clutch and gas to hold a little pressure against the hand brake until the light changed, or I got up to the stop sign, then released the brake handle, and the clutch, and hit the accelerator.

I can think of one stop light on top of a 12% hill in Chatham, N.J. where the hill start assist will be most welcome.

That's the way I always do it - must be the old school way. The ST is my first car with hill assist, the hardest part I found when I fist started using it was trusting it would work!

 

[Zerodameaon]

I love the hill assist. I still own cars without it and I never forget that my 240 is going to roll back. I drove in downtown SF for years with a short shifter, solid mounts, and a clutch like a light switch, its nice to not have to worry about it in day to day traffic and it doesn't dull your skills if you are a active driver. It might screw over the dimwit texting and doing 95 in the snow in their BMW though. You know the type of people who get angry that lane departure warnings are always going off, so they disable it and then get in a wreck.