Mk7.5 gti dsg auto hold

[Adam T7]

I switched it off because it caused excessive wear of the rear brake pads. Mine is a 2019 with 30k miles (owned from new) and the rear pads were 80% worn v 20% on the front. The active cruise also wears the rear pads but I never use that anyway. Car drives much smoother without it and I also disabled the automatic parking brake for the same reasons.

What do you do when in slow traffic on a hill please?

Personally, old school, foot on footbrake, apply handbrake, car in neutral.

[Rudedog]

Yep very similar - foot on footbrake, car in neutral, when moving off put car in D and swiftly move from brake to gas - never had an issue and that includes the 25% hill I regularly drive up.

[david25]

Yep very similar - foot on footbrake, car in neutral, when moving off put car in D and swiftly move from brake to gas - never had an issue and that includes the 25% hill I regularly go drive up.

Thanks both, so no roll back using that method or excessive wear on the gearbox clutch? Or is hill hold active?

[Adam T7]

Yep very similar - foot on footbrake, car in neutral, when moving off put car in D and swiftly move from brake to gas - never had an issue and that includes the 25% hill I regularly go drive up.

Thanks both, so no roll back using that method or excessive wear on the gearbox clutch? Or is hill hold active?

Had my GTI for nearly 6 years and used auto hold less than 6 times.

[Mutley75]

I switched it off because it caused excessive wear of the rear brake pads. Mine is a 2019 with 30k miles (owned from new) and the rear pads were 80% worn v 20% on the front. The active cruise also wears the rear pads but I never use that anyway. Car drives much smoother without it and I also disabled the automatic parking brake for the same reasons.

What do you do when in slow traffic on a hill please?

It’s a DSG. It ain’t rolling back!

[Watts]

I switched it off because it caused excessive wear of the rear brake pads. Mine is a 2019 with 30k miles (owned from new) and the rear pads were 80% worn v 20% on the front. The active cruise also wears the rear pads but I never use that anyway. Car drives much smoother without it and I also disabled the automatic parking brake for the same reasons.

That's odd, are you sure the autohold is the cause of rear pad wear? I did 40k miles in my previous car and on near 50k miles on the current one and had autohold enabled all the time on both. I've not had any mention of pad wear on any service. I find the feature very handy as a switch on and forget system.

[Finglonga]

Mine has never been turned off and cruise control used regularly and had no abnormal Brake pad wear. They make driving effortless in stop start traffic.