THANK YOU so much. I had mine set on auto hold, and life was good until she went in for a service and they mucked around with her, and I forgot all the ins and outs. Awesome and simple film, and you showed the buttons and dash. ❤
Thanks for sharing. Love the auto hold etc, but was getting frustrated at not being able to release the handbrake manually, now I see why 😅. Only problem now, is remembering to pull on the old fashioned one when driving the van at work 😀
This is so true. I’ve now had auto’s for the last six years and getting into my wife’s Fiesta where you have to change gear, set the handbrake, keep an eye on the cruise control, dip the rear view mirror yourself and the rear windows are not even electric seems a bit too much like hard work to me
Update: I have always had the habit of pulling off before clicking my seatbelt on. I really should read the instructions or pay more attention to your video. Seatbelt on first! Thanks.
Jim Prong I’d love to give you a definitive answer but I think the system in the Passat was slightly different to the one developed to the mk7 Golf. Ive not tried the Passat so I can only suggest finding a Passat Owners Club forum site and asking them. Sorry this is not the answer you were looking for. The Golf system worked really intuitively. Let me know how you get on
Thanks for this. I’m in the process of buying a MK7 Golf. It will be my first time using an electronic handbrake and auto hold. Just a question, on a steep hill doing a hill start. How long does the auto hold last before you need to apply electronic handbrake?
Great Video, many thanks for posting it up 😊, we are picking up a Golf next month which has this system, do you need to pull up the parking button every time you park, then press it down again when set off ? ( like you were using a mini handbrake I suppose) many thanks
Hi, thanks for the comments. As long as you activate ‘auto-hold’ you realistically never have to touch the handbrake again unless you want to drive without your seat belt. Having the seat belt plugged in is the key to it working correctly. Glad to be of some help.
Hi, have you tried reversing up hill using auto hold? I've had two hairy situations where the auto hold is released as soon as I press on the accelerator and start releasing the clutch but before there is enough power to move the car back. The result is that the car rolls forward. Never had this problem with a hill start forwards using auto hold. In my understanding of the system it should not release and let the car roll until I have reached the biting point to move back. I should mention it happened both times in icy conditions but I have winter tires and had no feeling of the wheels not getting traction! Perhaps a possible solution is to activate the parking brake and release it manually but I'm not clear how to work that - i.e. would I have to have my seat belt off. The other option is to smash on the gas and release the clutch aggressively on a reverse hill start but that defeats the point of the auto hold.
My car does the same must be a design fault the way around it is to pull the parking switch up and hold until you feel the biting point it's a good system overall but still has flaws lots of customer complaints should get it rectified.
in my opinion this is overly complicated. You'd have to keep looking at the green and red lights to double check to make sure the hand brake is engaged. with the good old lever, you can just feel on the right without having to take the hands off the road/surroundings. If it aint broke, don't try fix it aptly applies here in my opinion.
@@matthewsmith2787 I'm scared by these auto handbrakes - I'm looking to buy a car at the moment and if I see these auto things on a car I don't even bother going to see the car. Hate these auto things.
@@redshift3639 we’ve just upgraded to a mk8 golf from a mk5 which had a handbrake. I haven’t driven it yet I’m scared to death. My hub seems okay with it. I guess I’m just being silly. It’s hill starts that worry me.
@@redshift3639 ditto. I have had a VW Golf for 4 years and I loathe and detest the electronic handbrake. It is not only confusing but downright dangerous and I will NEVER buy another car - of any make - that does not have a normal, simple, hand operated hand (parking) brake.
“The spindle mechanism is of the self-locking design. Once the electromechanical parking brake has been actuated, the system remains locked even without electrical current.”
Hi mate hoping you can help, I have just collected a Golf GT same as yours, but for some reason when I start the car and go to set off it rolls back when releasing the footbrakes, I thought this would hold?
@@kaieshabish22 Thanks for the reply bud I appreciate it, I have managed to figure it out now. Basically I didn't realise that once you blip the throttle and get to the bite point it releases the handbrake automatically, the place I got it from didn't explain it properly.
My mechanic suggested to keep the handbrake off and the car left in gear as I'm working away and will prevent the handbrake siezing which happened on my mondeo.problem is how do you deactivate the electronic handbrake brake when the ignition is off?
We have just upgraded to a Mk8 golf. We had a Mk5 before which had a handbrake. I have never driven a vehicle with an automatic handbrake and I’m petrified. I haven’t driven it yet and I’ve got to go and visit someone who lives on a steep hill. I will be facing downwards. Does the handbrake hold automatically or do I have to set it for hill parking? I always leave in gear anyway. TIA
Hi, make sure the auto hold button is on, this will only illuminate when the seat belt is buckled in, as long as this is lit the hand brake should set no matter the steepness of the hill. For peace of mind you can still operate the handbrake switch manually but you shouldn’t need to if auto hold is activated and the seat belt is buckled. Hope this helps. Regards
Kind of makes me wonder, is it possible to push start a car with an electric parking brake? I've had to push start my mk5 several times in the past but it was no problem because of the manual handbrake.
I want to change the pads and discs on my Mk7. Can I release the parking brake to loosen the pads off the discs, by starting the engine and releasing the electric brake? I am assuming that so long as the parking brake has engaged it won't disengage until the engine is running ?and in gear? I might have to have all 4 wheels in the air to do this, which I can as I have 4 axle stands
Hey can you help me with this question, you said to release the electric handbreak you have to have your foot on the break pedal. But on a hill start in traffic if you had a normally hand break you normally put gas down then lift the clutch till you get to biting then release the handbreak. So are you saying I can’t do that with this car? Cheers
Mike_97x Hi, you only need to have your foot on the foot brake to release the electric handbrake if you’re not wearing your seat belt. If the seat belt is fastened and ‘auto-hold’ is engaged the handbrake will release automatically as soon as the car feels the biting point is reached on the clutch and you have some revs on. Hope this answers your question. Regards BBB
Does auto hold release as soon as you apply revs to the car ? I’m used to applying revs then bringing the clutch up to the biting point to move off on junctions etc , I’ve only just passed and found out my new cars gonna have one of these auto hold hand breaks , not sure if it’s a bad thing or a gonna make my life harder since I’m a beginner driver lol
No, auto hold releases when the brake feels there’s enough torque to release the brake so it’s a combination of revs and meeting the biting point on the clutch. It’s a really easy system to get used to
@@kaieshabish22 driving me mad. Sometimes mines sticking. Im giving it throttle and at the biting point and it’s still engaged. Am I suppose to have it biting on the clutch then give it some accelerator?
@@neddyknacker the car doesn't move at the biting point it moves if you bring it about a coins width above the bite, seems to be a common intermittent problem with these cars, I struggled creeping earlier using just the clutch as the auto hold wouldn't release until I raised my clutch very high but I could hear it struggling and then it shot forward instead of nice and controlled.
a lot of lady drivers complain that the old style handbrakes were to hard to apply or release, and also find hill starts a bit of a challenge, so this is a great feature for them as are parking sensors and park assist.
Where do you need a handbreak for a hillstart?? Just press the damn break pedal and lift your glutch feet up slowly and press the gas pedal. No handbreak needed.....If you cant do it without a handbreak then you shouldnt be driving an automobile.
I’ve had my VW golf for 3 years and still can’t work out the electronic parking brakes. I love the car but I detest two things - the pause (nothing happens) when you accelerate …. and the horrendous electronic parking brake - I hate it with a passion. It’s totally confusing and downright dangerous. I’ll never buy another car that doesn’t have a ‘normal’ hand brake.
@@kaieshabish22 thank you for replying so if the auto switch is off then I’ll have to put the hand break on manually even if I turn the car off ? Also on hill starts if I don’t want to use auto switch can I just use the hand break and just find the biting point? Or do I need to put the foot on the break to release the hand break. Thanks
Hi, thank for the video, I just bought a 2015 Passat, the electric hand break works great but a couple of times on a hill it’s not released, I’m thinking I’m not doing something right, is there a knack to this?
@@kaieshabish22 thanks for the reply, also hold assist comes off when I lift off the clutch without gas, I take it this should release on the bite, so I’ll look to book it in at the garage as I presume it’s a sensor issue or update that’s required.
Hi chap, my 2015 Passat hand break releases without any gas, it releases as soon as I lift my foot from the clutch without reaching the bite point, is this a fault in the system?
Hello I have been renting a golf this summer and using the auto handbrake with no problems. However I stopped to get fuel the other day leaving my little boy in the car I expected the auto handbrake to work but when I turned around the vehicle was rolling down a hill crossing a dual carriageway finally crashing into a hedge. My little boy is amazingly unhurt but as I tried to rescue him I was hit by the car and suffered various injuries including a cracked wrist. I'm trying to understand what's gone wrong as its left me in shock. The car was switched off car seat unplugged so it shouldn't have gone anywhere so I'm in shock and want to understand what's happened. Thank you Rebekah
@@philipcollier263 I used to drive a passat and its electronic handbrake was a nightmare, it often failed to release. I remember applying it on a steep hill, and it held the car but kept creeking
Omg that’s awful. Hope you have recovered now. It must have freaked you out forever. We have just upgraded to a car with auto brake and I haven’t actually driven it yet as I’m petrified, but I am wondering what happens if a child starting fiddling with the buttons and turned it off?
I nearly crashed an audi ar with this system in it I wasn't familiar with it and didn't know how it worked but I was facing down a really steep hill in front of another car trying to reverse it and the deisel engine just didn't have the torque for it to move on the clutch so when I touched the throttle it stalled and kept rolling forward needless to say the clutch took a pounding and I won't be driving another one 😂😂
So if you come up to an uphill, press in the clutch and the car starts to roll backwards, would the auto hold feature automatically activate or do you still have to press the brake pedal for it to activate?
You still have to press the brake pedal for it to activate, alternatively pull the handbrake switch towards you and it will set the handbrake fully. In a dsg car this is obviously different because it should hold it on the gear torque depending on the gradient of the hill.
Electronic handbrakes are a disaster and a huge expense waiting to happen. If it fails to release, you are stranded and you have to pay silly amounts of money to get it fixed, like £600 for a new motor
Tom Jardine Unfortunately it’s the way the car design is progressing and they will only get better over time and I guess if you’re going to get a car with an electronic handbrake buy a German one and not a French one!
i had a driving test in this the very same golf and i failed on hill start by using electronic handbrake since i have never used it. the car i was using for learning was older one and i was doing hill start by using clutch and brakes. never ever had problem, not to mention on this golf the clutch felt more sensitive and gas pedal felt harder than the car i was learning on. so I messed up and failed my driving test!fuck, so stupid
just got my 2014 Golf and frustrated with the electronic handbrake. It appears to intermittently release on a hill start before the biting point and so I roll back. Could this be that not enough gas has been given? Can the handbrake release if not at biting point?
Not wishing to sound thick but I have only just got the car with this type of hand brake are you saying the auto brake should be on all the time you are driving ?
David Coomber Yes, the light on the Auto hold button should be illuminated while driving, it will only come on though if the seat belt is secured (in the manual gearbox cars at least)
