Autohold

[r2uzenblot]

Yesterday I stopped the car and it rolled. I then noticed the Autohold icon was missing on the screen. I couldn't get it to auto hold at all. I checked in the infotainment screen and it was turned on. Turned the car off and on again and it reappeared.
All OK until just now and it happened again. Any thoughts?
Normally I have the white icon that turns green on auto hold. How does it disappear.....

 

[Bam Bam]

I'm hazy on this one, with a vague recollection is happened to someone else a while back. I would probably chalk it up to a temporary software glitch.

My guess is that it did not initialise during start-up so you didn't have it during the journey.

Or did you have it at an earlier point in the journey?

 

[Rolfe]

There used to be an "autohold fault" that sometimes came up on starting the car. You'd get a yellow warning triangle and no autohold, and I think also an injunction to consult the manual or the dealer. The cure was to get out of the car, lock it, then start again. I haven't seen it in ages though, maybe a software update fixed it.

Your problem sounds more as if the infotainment system forgot you had selected autohold. I've had that sometimes with other things, particularly the assignments of the star buttons, although I've not seen it for the autohold.

 

[Diggsy]

Autohold fault tends to appear whilst resetting the infotainment screen as well, via the long home button press. I’d think the car has got itself into a boot error at some point. Either a reboot of the infotainment or maybe even a negative disconnect from the battery might sort it.

The age old turn it off and on again trick

 

[r2uzenblot]

Its back at the moment and only occurred at the end of a 90 mile drive. During the drive it was fine. I am sure it's not connected but shortly before it disappeared a justified low range warning popped up.
What I am understanding after just two weeks, and nearly a thousand miles, is that whilst the drive is superb and the handling is great and the car is exceptionally well put together for a budget car........ the software has glitches. My other posts reveal some of them! I think you just need to be aware as it's still a great value car.

 

[MG Clive]

Did the car roll forwards or backwards, if perhaps you didn't press the brake pedal hard enough for it to activate, and it rolled backwards, it probably wouldn't activate while the car was going backwards.

 

[Rolfe]

I still think the infotainment simply forgot the setting. I had it forget that the right star button was set to the HVAC controls in the middle of a drive, one time.

 

[r2uzenblot]

Did the car roll forwards or backwards, if perhaps you didn't press the brake pedal hard enough for it to activate, and it rolled backwards, it probably wouldn't activate while the car was going backwards.

No the Icon had disappeared. Pressing the brake made no difference.

 

[DixieTGS]

Something in the back of my memory says autohold is always on when OPD (one pedal driving) is enabled. If true, then any of the following may throw some light on the subject:

When the fault occurs, enable OPD and see if the autohold lamp turns on, or autohold starts working.

Use OPD all the time and see if the problem still occurs.

If you normally use OPD, try not using it.