HILL START?

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Hate there isn't another option, these are very annoying. I do not want all the aids, been driving a manual for 15 years and prefer to to be in control.
My camaro had hill start assist and I hate it. When I first got the car, I tried to park in a space that had an incline before the space. The hill start assist held the brakes and I killed it and rolled back 3 times before I actually made it into the parking space. If someone had been behind me, I would have rolled back into them.

Someone on the camaro forum discovered that you can replace the yaw sensor with the sensor from the automatic and the hill start assist would be disabled (no sensor for inclines). I did the swap and no longer have to worry about hill start assist. I hope that the same thing can be done with the civic when I purchase it, because I don't like hill start assist.
 

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replace the yaw sensor, now how to find it and make sure the sensor is compatible
 

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Went out to the dealership to test drive the car. I inquired about hill start assist, they said it was the brake hold, which could be turned off and on by pressing the brake hold button. While driving the car with the brake hold turned off, I did not experience the car holding the brakes at any time.

Is the sales person correct in saying that hill start assist on this car is just another name for brake hold?
 


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Hill start assist cannot be turned off. Brake hold can be turned off.

If you're not on a hill, hill start assist will not engage. Also, you must have the clutch in and be in first gear.
 

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Does the cdv delete prevent that hill assist from activating? Not that I need it but I feel as if it doesn’t hold on hills ever since the cdv delete. Could be in my head.
 

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Hill start assist cannot be turned off. Brake hold can be turned off.

If you're not on a hill, hill start assist will not engage. Also, you must have the clutch in and be in first gear.
how inclined of a hill will it engage? i have been on a few slopes at a stop light and felt myself roll back.
 

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Does the cdv delete prevent that hill assist from activating? Not that I need it but I feel as if it doesn’t hold on hills ever since the cdv delete. Could be in my head.
CDV delete won't have anything to do with the hill assist.

how inclined of a hill will it engage? i have been on a few slopes at a stop light and felt myself roll back.
I ask myself the same question lol. Sometimes it rolls sometimes it doesn't.
 

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Kind of offtopic, say you are in 6th gear and you have to take a right turn ahead what do you do? For me I clutch in put to neutral> clutch out rev a bit> clutch in put to 3rd gear. If im not in 6th and im in 4th gear I will rev my clutch and downshift to 3rd gear, but downshift make more wear on the clutch right?
 


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Every engagement/disengagement of the clutch causes a little bit of wear. Unless you perfectly match engine/transmission speeds every time.

They are like brake pads. Every time you use them they wear a little more. But that's what they're designed to do.
 

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how inclined of a hill will it engage? i have been on a few slopes at a stop light and felt myself roll back.
I have noticed that on slight inclines, it will not engage. I can't think of a time when it hasn't engaged when I was on enough of a slope to need it though.
 

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I have noticed that on slight inclines, it will not engage. I can't think of a time when it hasn't engaged when I was on enough of a slope to need it though.
i'm beginning to wonder if that is only a feature on the UK model? I am 100% certain my car does not do that.
 

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Kind of offtopic, say you are in 6th gear and you have to take a right turn ahead what do you do? For me I clutch in put to neutral> clutch out rev a bit> clutch in put to 3rd gear. If im not in 6th and im in 4th gear I will rev my clutch and downshift to 3rd gear, but downshift make more wear on the clutch right?
It depends on the turn. If it is sharp, I drop to 2nd and match the revs before the turn . So I can power my way out quicker if needed.
When you are taking a slow turn in 3rd. It takes a little to get the engine going.

Although you are right, there are instances where 3rd is perfectly fine. Perhaps it is a wider turn and you have enough momentum and can safely make the turn.

These cars are extremely easy to rev match. Like barely a blip of the gas in normal driving situations and you won't even feel it grab because it's so smooth.

You should be dropping the gear before the situation and not during or after.

Also - Not sure why you are double-clutching this car like a truck. I mean you can, but there is no reason to. That takes extra time and sometimes time is not always on your side when driving. Unless you live in areas with wide ass highways with no traffic around. Clutch in. Move shifter. Blip throttle a tiny bit. Clutch out with a millisecond stop at the friction zone.

Have you ever come to an emergency slow-down/stop while turning an intersection? If you were in 3rd and slowed down to 2-3mph, there is noway you could recover from that. You risk getting T-Boned. You don't have time to downshift and re-apply gas smoothly. That is why I make turns in 2nd. You can rev through the friction zone in 2nd during an emergency situation and get the car moving (at the expense of the car shaking a little and clutch life).
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