Creep assist/mode?

[suckerv]

OK, I gotta know: I have heard lots about this car having a creep assist with the 6MT. I never got around to playing with it since I just drive it "normally" in traffic, and I won't get a chance to try this out until this weekend at the earliest...but I read somewhere that you can just let out the clutch from a stop and the car will automatically rev to about 1K to keep you from stalling?

Can you really just let the clutch out completely without blipping the throttle at all, and the car won't stall? Because I gotta be honest with you, if that's the case, this changes the game pretty dramatically, lol. This changes about 20ish years of driving in damn traffic with a manual, feathering the throttle and clutch nonstop. I'm damn near salivating just imagining how easy traffic could be if this feature is true.

Anyway, just curious! I'll try it out this weekend if I can remember it

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[Dudie7]

Yes, it's true. You can just easy up off the clutch and the car will not stall. I think it's called "Hill Assist". Look for it in the driver info center.

 

[suckerv]

Woooooooow. That's awesome! You have no idea how happy this makes me, lol

 

[GreenWolfGT]

you let the clutch out and let off the throttle and the car should hold at around 750-800 rpm or so. The car can and will stall if you don't quite get it right. Creep mode will not save you. In my experience the car creeps along too slow or too fast in creep mode for traffic generally. just my 2 cents

 

[GreenWolfGT]

Yes, it's true. You can just easy up off the clutch and the car will not stall. I think it's called "Hill Assist". Look for it in the driver info center.

I could be wrong but hill assist just holds the brake on for a second or two while on a hill to prevent you from rolling back (at least thats what it did on my subaru)

 

[Dudie7]

Yeah, it's great. I found out about it during my test drive. If it didn't have it, I probably wouldn't have gotten a manual...nothing worse than having to play the clutch/gas game while stuck in traffic.

 

[suckerv]

I'll def play around with it this weekend. It would be so nice to just clutch in/out in 1st without using the throttle at all in traffic. Bay Area traffic can get pretty crappy really quick -_-

 

[Charles147]

you let the clutch out and let off the throttle and the car should hold at around 750-800 rpm or so. The car can and will stall if you don't quite get it right. Creep mode will not save you. In my experience the car creeps along too slow or too fast in creep mode for traffic generally. just my 2 cents

this. By the time you start creeping you either need to get on the gas because the traffic picks up or the traffic is gridlocked and creep assist has little to no value. Any delay or slowness in moving forward you will get honked at because several metro commuter folks want to mash the gas and brakes every 5 feet so nobody budges in. Then you have the idiots that need to see brake lights flash or they will be kissing your bumper because they are preoccupied with their phone.

 

[suckerv]

this. By the time you start creeping you either need to get on the gas because the traffic picks up or the traffic is gridlocked and creep assist has little to no value. Any delay or slowness in moving forward you will get honked at because several metro commuter folks want to mash the gas and brakes every 5 feet so nobody budges in. Then you have the idiots that need to see brake lights flash or they will be kissing your bumper because they are preoccupied with their phone.

Sounds about right. Highway 4 right by my house is a nightmare. Not only has it been under construction in the entire 6 years I've lived here, but at one point it bottlenecks from 4 lanes into 2, and suddenly EVERYONE FORGETS HOW TO DRIVE.

 

[73MachI]

Hill Assist is simply where the car senses that you are on a hill and applies the brakes to hold you steady until you've let in enough clutch to go. As I have driven standards all my life, it's the first thing I disabled, but it's a great training aid. It is a designed feature.

So called "creep mode" is simply the fact that the car has so much torque that you can leave it in first gear and release the clutch and it won't stall out. It's not a specifically designed feature.

 

[SynisterGT]

I do this in my 12. Slowly let the clutch out and roll along. It is so much easier in traffic.

 

[suckerv]

So called "creep mode" is simply the fact that the car has so much torque that you can leave it in first gear and release the clutch and it won't stall out. It's not a specifically designed feature.

Ah gotcha. Still so much to learn from this car. It's worlds apart from the old Corolla manual i drove for close to 10 years

 

[73MachI]

It's worlds apart from the old Corolla manual i drove for close to 10 years

Indeed. My DD is a 16+ year old Honda Civic Si 5-speed, and I chuckle with pleasure every time I switch cars, they are so different in every respect... the Mustang is a true GT.

 

[Falcon01]

Yup, mine goes to around 1k when it should be at around 500 to keep it from stalling. You could still stall it though. You can't just completely let off the clutch, you have to do it slowly.

 

[suckerv]

I will say this though; my wife said to me "When your Corolla finally dies, you can get your Mustang."

I thought to myself, "Challenge accepted."

It took nearly 4 years to finally kill that damn car, lol. That piece of crap lasted me nearly 300,000 miles

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