Have you actually turned Autohold on in the settings ?Thanks for your responses. I've tried most of these.
The issue in Exeter is that there are huge changes of slope. My most frequent city journey takes me down one side of the valley through some of the country's slowest rush hour congestion and up the other side. I'd hoped an electric car would be ideal for this. In some places the slope will stop the car, then without warning it starts to move again. In other places using the footbrake brings the car to a stop, but it doesn't always engage auto hold and the car unexpectedly moves forward.
I have tried pushing the brake pedal down firmly after I think the car has come to a stop, where in a manual car I'd have engaged the handbrake. As the creep forward function seems to engage about this point doing this has made the car feel very jerky & uncomfortable. I was hoping to be able to drive more smoothly than this.
I'll try using neutral, though I'm a little worried the car may roll back. I use neutral to roll backwards off my driveway which slopes down to the road.
Ideally I'd like simply to permanently disengage the creep forward function. In some situations its too fast, in others too slow and the car is often using power to try to move while you have your foot on the brake. I just can't understand why anyone would want it.
No need to put it in neutral, just foot on the brake achieves the same result without having to switch to drive before moving off.Neutral foot on the brake. Switch to drive move off.
Yes I find creep very good for parkingpeople like creep for parking. thats the only reason I can think for it.
Same I don't use auto hold I don't like it foot on brake is just easyCreep is always present in an automatic car. I just keep my foot on the brake until ready to move off, and have never used the handbrake on any of the ICE vehicles I have driven (all autos, apart from a motorhome, which had a useless handbrake anyway) since 1980. I suspect my new MG will be a bit of a learning curve, as I have not encountered autohold before.
Sounds like a bad implementation of creep. There should be no 'engagement' of it, traditional auto boxes just do it when you take your foot of the brake in a completely predictable, consistent, way.Thanks for your responses. I've tried most of these.
The issue in Exeter is that there are huge changes of slope. My most frequent city journey takes me down one side of the valley through some of the country's slowest rush hour congestion and up the other side. I'd hoped an electric car would be ideal for this. In some places the slope will stop the car, then without warning it starts to move again. In other places using the footbrake brings the car to a stop, but it doesn't always engage auto hold and the car unexpectedly moves forward.
I have tried pushing the brake pedal down firmly after I think the car has come to a stop, where in a manual car I'd have engaged the handbrake. As the creep forward function seems to engage about this point doing this has made the car feel very jerky & uncomfortable. I was hoping to be able to drive more smoothly than this.
I'll try using neutral, though I'm a little worried the car may roll back. I use neutral to roll backwards off my driveway which slopes down to the road.
Ideally I'd like simply to permanently disengage the creep forward function. In some situations its too fast, in others too slow and the car is often using power to try to move while you have your foot on the brake. I just can't understand why anyone would want it.
Creep happens in ICE vehicles due to the torque converter. Newer dual clutch autos don't creep. The other electric vehicles in the family (a Tesla & a Renault Kangoo van) don't creep. When they stop they stop until you touch the accelerator again. Creep is something actually programmed into the MG's software. I was hoping there would be a simple way to switch it off.Creep is always present in an automatic car. I just keep my foot on the brake until ready to move off, and have never used the handbrake on any of the ICE vehicles I have driven (all autos, apart from a motorhome, which had a useless handbrake anyway) since 1980. I suspect my new MG will be a bit of a learning curve, as I have not encountered autohold before.