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Can we eliminate the creep?

JerryB

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I find the way the MG Zs continues to creep forwards annoying in traffic jams. Is it possible to disable this so that the car just rolls to a stop?
 
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.
 
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.
Have you actually turned Autohold on in the settings ?
If you don't use autohold, on an uphill halt, just use the footbrake, it will then hold the car for a second or two while you move your foot from the brake to the accelerator to proceed.
Using neutral is pointless just press the big park button, and then change to drive if you really want to make it more complicated than necessary.
The creep should not be used to hold the car at standstill on an uphill slope, use autohold or the footbrake.
 
Ensure autohold is on, and press the brake pedal firmly until the (P) illuminates on the dash. I haven't found a hill that won't hold on yet.

If you want true one-pedal driving, you bought the wong car.
 
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.
 
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.
Same I don't use auto hold I don't like it foot on brake is just easy
 
I understand in the case of EVs there is a design called “single-pedal” or “one-pedal” driving where the vehicle will comes to a complete stop through a combination of recharge and removing the driver’s foot from the accelerator.

The MG ZS EV doesn’t have that functionality though.
 
Non of the mg ev have that they have the break pedal and go pedal so you have to use the break pedal to stop or hold the veh then once release break pedal you will creep forward so you drive the car accordingly
 
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.
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.
 
It’s a fine art as I have discovered. If you brake hard to a stop the auto hold (green (P)) does not engage and the car creeps. You can then slowly/gently release the pedal and push down firmly again before you move off and it engages. Aim to brake as gently as possible to a halt and it engages 99% of the time when you stop. Having driven other electric cars it is a similar situ but ours are far more sensitive to your driving style. I always have an irrational fear the car will move off though as the slightest of pressure on the accelerator releases you 🤣
 
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.
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.
 
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