Hi everyone,
Only been here a day or so but this is a good resource for all of us stubby little buzz box owners to refer to. We recently bought a new 2012 Rio SLS 6 speed manual as a daily driver and we love the thing. What got me for a while was it was meant to be fitted with hill start assist, and no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't get it to work. When i read various forums it was a case of, pull up on a hill, keep the foot brake applied, then simply let the foot off the brake and the car will hold the brakes for a couple of seconds or until it senses input from the throttle pedal.
Anyway for those of us in Australia, it's wired a different way, so i thought i'd share here in case some of you haven't figured it out yet. You could read the manual, but it's more productive to hit yourself in the face a few times.
This method has worked for me on ALL gradients, steep or not, if there's a hill it has worked. That was another thing the O/S guys were having issues with, only triggering on huge hills. Procedure:
1.) pull up as normal to a stop, clutch in, first gear selected
2.) keeping foot on brake, push the pedal firmly to build brake pressure
3.) with right foot still on brake, release the clutch about an inch, but not enough to reach the friction point or to affect engine RPM
4.) remove foot from brake
The car will now hold for what i count to be about 1.5 or 2 seconds, then start rolling back. I advise you test your cars individually, and far away from traffic, in a back street or somewhere nothing is around. It's a weird system and while i won't rely on it, i prefer old-school manual driving, it is a help in some situations, but is a little alien to get used to.
cheers
Only been here a day or so but this is a good resource for all of us stubby little buzz box owners to refer to. We recently bought a new 2012 Rio SLS 6 speed manual as a daily driver and we love the thing. What got me for a while was it was meant to be fitted with hill start assist, and no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't get it to work. When i read various forums it was a case of, pull up on a hill, keep the foot brake applied, then simply let the foot off the brake and the car will hold the brakes for a couple of seconds or until it senses input from the throttle pedal.
Anyway for those of us in Australia, it's wired a different way, so i thought i'd share here in case some of you haven't figured it out yet. You could read the manual, but it's more productive to hit yourself in the face a few times.
This method has worked for me on ALL gradients, steep or not, if there's a hill it has worked. That was another thing the O/S guys were having issues with, only triggering on huge hills. Procedure:
1.) pull up as normal to a stop, clutch in, first gear selected
2.) keeping foot on brake, push the pedal firmly to build brake pressure
3.) with right foot still on brake, release the clutch about an inch, but not enough to reach the friction point or to affect engine RPM
4.) remove foot from brake
The car will now hold for what i count to be about 1.5 or 2 seconds, then start rolling back. I advise you test your cars individually, and far away from traffic, in a back street or somewhere nothing is around. It's a weird system and while i won't rely on it, i prefer old-school manual driving, it is a help in some situations, but is a little alien to get used to.
cheers
