Silly question........apologies in advance

[Brenbo]

Funny really - my current and last Mk.7 were DSG but I have never used Autohold!

You can take your foot off the brake pedal when stoped if you use auto hold with DSG

You can do the same in the manual.

I Second that! 

[I wanted a GTi]

Funny really - my current and last Mk.7 were DSG but I have never used Autohold!

You can take your foot off the brake pedal when stoped if you use auto hold with DSG

You can do the same in the manual.

Well yeah obviously but the point I was making was that VE changed it a few years ago. Before if you took your foot off the brake the the car would start moving, now it doesn't start until you touch the throttle.

[Jeni_R_]

PANIC.............pulled into the car park at work nose first on a hill reversing into the space into reverse bite point and up on its hunkers it went handbrake engaged  so takes out of gear tried again back into reverse bite point and no budge so i end up hitting the AUTO LOCK button to switch the whole thing off reversed and parked fine engaged (pulled up the teensy lever) the handbrake switched her off and left her in reverse as i am not petrified i go and find her embedded in the side of the balloon shop 

Am i being a total knob here and missing something ? i hadnt touched the handbrake at all i drove into the car park nose first on the hill tried to reverse and didnt budge 

[fredgroves]

Did you have your Seatbelt on? Germans love a bit of safety

[Watts]

You shouldn't have to touch anything so something that shouldn't be is either on or off. Check your handbook and set up again from scratch. Once sorted as I've said, you won't need to touch it again in normal driving.

[Brenbo]

As Watts says, you should not have to touch anything when Auto Hold is on.  Even when reversing on a slope it should do all the hand brake stuff automatically.  I have a really steep slope on my Driveway.  Not once have I experienced anything like you describe. Auto Hold on my Golf works effortlessly on my driveway.  I have even forgotten how much of a chore using a manual handbrake lever could be when pulling away on a slope. 

So as Watts says you may not have setup your Auto Hold/eBrake correctly?  I would check out the manual.

[Jeni_R_]

Did you have your Seatbelt on? Germans love a bit of safety

aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh possibly not i cant remember i am in the habit of taking off when reversing 

[Jeni_R_]

As Watts says, you should not have to touch anything when Auto Hold is on.  Even when reversing on a slope it should do all the hand brake stuff automatically.  I have a really steep slope on my Driveway.  Not once have I experienced anything like you describe. Auto Hold on my Golf works effortlessly on my driveway.  I have even forgotten how much of a chore using a manual handbrake lever could be when pulling away on a slope. 

So as Watts says you may not have setup your Auto Hold/eBrake correctly?  I would check out the manual.

I havent set it up as its a second hand car - is there a way to 'reset' things ?

[Watts]

As Watts says, you should not have to touch anything when Auto Hold is on.  Even when reversing on a slope it should do all the hand brake stuff automatically.  I have a really steep slope on my Driveway.  Not once have I experienced anything like you describe. Auto Hold on my Golf works effortlessly on my driveway.  I have even forgotten how much of a chore using a manual handbrake lever could be when pulling away on a slope. 

So as Watts says you may not have setup your Auto Hold/eBrake correctly?  I would check out the manual.

I havent set it up as its a second hand car - is there a way to 'reset' things ?

Not as such, you just need to ensure the autohold is switched on and the handbrake button is in the correct position. Best way is just a minute or two with the manual and set them correctly then job done!

[mcmaddy]

Funny really - my current and last Mk.7 were DSG but I have never used Autohold!

You can take your foot off the brake pedal when stoped if you use auto hold with DSG

You can do the same in the manual.

Well yeah obviously but the point I was making was that VE changed it a few years ago. Before if you took your foot off the brake the the car would start moving, now it doesn't start until you touch the throttle.

Can't ever remember it doing that to me in the Tiguan or Skoda superb with dsg. All it did when you took your foot of the pedal was start the car.