Stop Start Issue MKIII RS169

[puhleese]

Hi, anyone had this issue. Had the car 3 weeks and twice now I have stopped on a slight incline and stop/start has stopped the engine and when I have taken foot off the brake I start rolling back. I found that the engine has stopped completely and I have to put the car in park and start the car manually. Thankfully it hasn't been a big problem because it has happened whilst entering my driveway/garage. Thought I would post this here in case it is a known issue before I talk to the dealer tomorrow. I did see something about a problem whilst in ECO mode but I am in Normal mode.

[ian]

Hi, anyone had this issue. Had the car 3 weeks and twice now I have stopped on a slight incline and stop/start has stopped the engine and when I have taken foot off the brake I start rolling back. I found that the engine has stopped completely and I have to put the car in park and start the car manually. Thankfully it hasn't been a big problem because it has happened whilst entering my driveway/garage. Thought I would post this here in case it is a known issue before I talk to the dealer tomorrow. I did see something about a problem whilst in ECO mode but I am in Normal mode.

If you want to save a minium amount of fuel put up with it ,or you can turn it off especially in summer ,When you stop at traffic lights and your sitting there sweating ,

[puhleese]

If you want to save a minium amount of fuel put up with it ,or you can turn it off especially in summer ,When you stop at traffic lights and your sitting there sweating ,

I don't think whether I want it activated or not is the issue here. The issue for me is/was whether there is a design fault that is causing this or it is just a quirk. I could just turn it off but that wouldn't answer my question. Thanks wingzee for your comment on your experience with this. I will watch with interest as to whether it occurs again to me or was just 'one of those things'

[Notyettrending]

+1 to that. Also never found it economical when you wanted move forward slightly in traffic, would be starting and stopping the engine constantly, can't be great for fuel consumption.

[wingzee]

Hi, anyone had this issue. Had the car 3 weeks and twice now I have stopped on a slight incline and stop/start has stopped the engine and when I have taken foot off the brake I start rolling back. I found that the engine has stopped completely and I have to put the car in park and start the car manually. Thankfully it hasn't been a big problem because it has happened whilst entering my driveway/garage. Thought I would post this here in case it is a known issue before I talk to the dealer tomorrow. I did see something about a problem whilst in ECO mode but I am in Normal mode.

Happened to me once - same situation as yours: Normal mode, during an incline, engine basically died during the start-stop activation & gotta manually start it up again. Car was less than 500kms then.

Since at 2.5k kms now & never had a similar incident after that.

[wingzee]

I don't think whether I want it activated or not is the issue here. The issue for me is/was whether there is a design fault that is causing this or it is just a quirk. I could just turn it off but that wouldn't answer my question. Thanks wingzee for your comment on your experience with this. I will watch with interest as to whether it occurs again to me or was just 'one of those things'

Sure thing. Wasn’t concerned about the issues as I thought it’s among the quirks of a start-stop system (this is my first car with a start-stop). Good that you brought this up so I know that I am not alone.

Slightly off topic but I already had errors thrown from the Blind Spot Monitoring + Rear Cross Traffic Alert at about 800kms. Just appeared outta nowhere saying “Systems currently available”.

Nothing a OBDeleven can’t solve but does concerns me given the car was than a month old back then!

[puhleese]

Tks for that info. I check with the OBDEleven every weekend and have found that I am getting an error of "current too high" in one of the modules but can't remember which one at the moment Doesn't seem to be affecting anything though so I just keep clearing it

[zei20t]

anyone getting constant errors and system failures should see a dealer ASAP

don't clear the errors, leave them so they can see the failures. even if the system is working ok again, leave the errors there.

[wingzee]

Tks for that info. I check with the OBDEleven every weekend and have found that I am getting an error of "current too high" in one of the modules but can't remember which one at the moment Doesn't seem to be affecting anything though so I just keep clearing it

Could that be the start-stop system or battery?

[puhleese]

Could that be the start-stop system or battery?

OBDEleven says battery is fine but you are right, it could be the start-stop system. I will speak with my friendly Skoda Service people about it