Maybe buying an Auto A Class. Change in driving style?

[rorywquin]

You wont be driving here so anything else is ok. (Baldwin Street, Duneden, New Zealand). My friend was driving and he was nervous. It is very steep. There were a bunch of youngsters in an old banger and it couldn't get to the top!

 

[EmilysDad]

With my previous auto(Audi S3) I noticed that when sitting in Drive and footbrake applied with anything other than very light pressure the drive was disengaged, so I assume Mercedes auto boxes will operate in the same way. Of course when on a hill you are pressing a little harder and as you say the hill assist function takes over when releasing the brake.
What I was meaning earlier when I conducted my experiment on a hill, it seemed to be simply the torque of the gearbox that was holding the car steady, and I was honestly surprised considering the gradient(probably around 1 in 10). I would compare this with balancing a manual car on the clutch, but whether that's right or wrong my mechanical sympathy would tell me it is wrong to do so.

Is the Audi a slush box auto or a DSG/automated manual?
EmilysMum used to have an auto Astra & that always felt like the drive disengaged when stationary .... it took a moment to actually take up the drive after you released the brake pedal.

An auto holding itself on a hill is similar to the fact that an auto will creep if you take your foot off the brake when on the level.

 

[EmilysDad]

You wont be driving here so anything else is ok. (Baldwin Street, Duneden, New Zealand). My friend was driving and he was nervous. It is very steep. There were a bunch of youngsters in an old banger and it couldn't get to the top!
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!*%k me! That is steep!

 

[Ron240]

!*%k me! That is steep!

Exactly what I was thinking......I wouldn't fancy walking up that never mind driving!
My Audi was a DSG by the way.

 

[s5tuart]

Who would buy a house on THAT hill????

 

[LostKiwi]

Is the Audi a slush box auto or a DSG/automated manual?
EmilysMum used to have an auto Astra & that always felt like the drive disengaged when stationary .... it took a moment to actually take up the drive after you released the brake pedal.

An auto holding itself on a hill is similar to the fact that an auto will creep if you take your foot off the brake when on the level.

Pretty sure the Audi doesn't use a torque converter so will be a robotic manual (DSG).

 

[rorywquin]

My wife's photo looking down hill......This hill is in the Guinness book of records as the steepest. Wales briefly took the record until Guinness realised that they'd not measured properly.

 

[LostKiwi]

I used to work in this building years ago:
23 Liverpool St
https://maps.app.goo.gl/79Dw9nQRptdCR1M18

(Look left).
That road was pretty steep too.....
We had occasional instances of cars running down the hill and being unable to stop at the bottom. It has always been one way (down) apart from the very bottom section. It could get interesting in the wet after a long dry spell....

 

[rorywquin]

I used to work in this building years ago:
23 Liverpool St
https://maps.app.goo.gl/79Dw9nQRptdCR1M18

(Look left).
That road was pretty steep too.....
We had occasional instances of cars running down the hill and being unable to stop at the bottom. It has always been one way (down) apart from the very bottom section. It could get interesting in the wet after a long dry spell....

We had a couple in Jo'burg that were steep. ****** driver's license testers always took the candidates to one of them to do an uphill pull off (manual gear box).

 

[Naraic]

Aha fair enough maybe not quite that.
Put that down to ignorance on my part. (It is Scotland though, stuff does get quite hilly up here). The hill is dead steep though.

The stairs in your house are a max of 42 degrees...and you think Scottish roads may be steeper?

Baldwin Street is about 20 degrees.

 

[rorywquin]

The stairs in your house are a max of 42 degrees...and you think Scottish roads may be steeper?

Baldwin Street is about 20 degrees.

Nope - GBoR = 34.8% (Baldwin Street), almost double your guess. Take a protractor and put it on the photo of the house.........

 

[LostKiwi]

Nope - GBoR = 34.8% (Baldwin Street), almost double your guess. Take a protractor and put it on the photo of the house.........

% or °?

 

[EmilysDad]

Nope - GBoR = 34.8% (Baldwin Street), almost double your guess. ...

A gnat's steeper than a 1 in 3

 

[Naraic]

Nope - GBoR = 34.8% (Baldwin Street), almost double your guess. Take a protractor and put it on the photo of the house.........

Yep...but I said degrees not %...they are different.

 

[Ron240]

20 degrees is 36.4% and 1 in 2.75

The different ways of quoting the same thing can get confusing.

P.S. Of course I didn't just work that out.

 

[Wearsafoxhat]

Who would buy a house on THAT hill????

No danger of being flooded out

Less cold callers. .


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[s5tuart]

No danger of being flooded out

Less cold callers. .


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Can you come and sell my flat for me?

 

[rorywquin]

For those who do not know....

Yep...but I said degrees not %...they are different.

@LostKiwi

I stand corrected!

 

[Wearsafoxhat]

Getting back to the thread, we had an A200 (w176) lovely car, easy to drive, good on fuel and rfl was £20. The parking package was good once you trusted it.
My only complaint was at a mere 5’10” I often bumped my head getting in


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[Blobcat]

Getting back to the thread, we had an A200 (w176) lovely car, easy to drive, good on fuel and rfl was £20. The parking package was good once you trusted it.
My only complaint was at a mere 5’10” I often bumped my head getting in


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I’m 5’9” and also seem to bang my swede when getting into an A-Class but not my SLK???