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Hill Climb on E brake
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mjennings23 said:Nictrix said:If you think that is bad you should try the auto hold in the X6, its a pain in the arse when trying to park as everytime you come to a stop the e-brake activates and then the accelerator must be pressed to get rolling again.
Its great everywhere else, at lights, at junctions, in traffic etc. but parking is annoying.
My Dad's F10 5 series has this too, it was a little odd at first but I see the advantages of it. Also, its easy to turn off, there is a button next to the handbrake switch to turn it off for manoeuvring into parking spaces etc. This may be different in the X6?
Yep, its just a button to switch it on and off. It has its uses but not for parking.
ihadablackdog
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The 4 cylinder e89's never had hill assist. I know this as I had one when they did the deal with about £8k off. I got mine in 2012 - all the literature - brochures, website etc said it was a "standard" feature, but when the cars started arriving to customers we found out it wasn't. It was only then available on the 6 cylinder cars. I think it was available on the previous models, sdrive23 etc...
BMW would just say "did you clarify with your salesman if the car had that feature" and I would say "no, cos its a standard feature...I didn't clarify other standard features, ie windows!". They then tried to say that the brochures showed things that were only in certain countries....they didn't like it when we pointed out it was also on the UK website when speccing a UK car!
Took them a while to remove it from the website.
My salesman didn't even know - I phoned him up just before my car was delivered and he had to go out and try one...he thought it did, and was surprised it didn't.
Some people got about £300 compensation. Was a real c0ck up, because as we know, it was a technology that had been around a while.
My main moan was that because the ebrake has a delay, it was hard to get the biting point. When I got mine, I went to the steepest (quiet) hill I could find and just practiced moving off...after about 5 attempts I had it where I could pull off smoothly, not jerking etc.
Unfortunately I only had that car 2 years. Now I've got another!
BMW would just say "did you clarify with your salesman if the car had that feature" and I would say "no, cos its a standard feature...I didn't clarify other standard features, ie windows!". They then tried to say that the brochures showed things that were only in certain countries....they didn't like it when we pointed out it was also on the UK website when speccing a UK car!
Took them a while to remove it from the website.
My salesman didn't even know - I phoned him up just before my car was delivered and he had to go out and try one...he thought it did, and was surprised it didn't.
Some people got about £300 compensation. Was a real c0ck up, because as we know, it was a technology that had been around a while.
My main moan was that because the ebrake has a delay, it was hard to get the biting point. When I got mine, I went to the steepest (quiet) hill I could find and just practiced moving off...after about 5 attempts I had it where I could pull off smoothly, not jerking etc.
Unfortunately I only had that car 2 years. Now I've got another!
flybobbie said:On a slope when you apply the foot brake the hill assist holds for a few seconds or until you start to move forward, so shuffling back and fourth not a problem.
My cars,
The 35is has an E brake and DCT (late 2016 car)
The 335 has Conventional hand brake and Torque converter transmission (June 2015 car )
Both cars act the same way on a hill, if I hold on the footbrake then release it, after about 3 secs the car rolls back - but that’s long enough to squeeze the throttle or if they were manual, lift the clutch.
So they act the same as yours flybobbie.