Anyone planning HAC (Hill Assist) retrofit?

[Spectre20]

I had it on my 2014 Mustang and loved it, but I don't love it enough to drop a wad of cash on a retrofit that I can spend on something else.

[qqzj]

This is a great feature. Anybody who drove in SF can understand why. Maybe one can get by w/o this feature, but his clutch won't appreciate it.

[Poodles]

Originally Posted by qqzj

This is a great feature. Anybody who drove in SF can understand why. Maybe one can get by w/o this feature, but his clutch won't appreciate it.

One can do the exact same thing manually with the parking brake...

[Subsonic]

Part of the reason I like my 2015 86 so much is the manual nature of the car. I shift gears manually. I brake, accelerate and steer manually. Although some of these inputs are augmented, there is no system that does these things automatically (unless you count cruise control, which I rarely use). All the systems are designed to give the driver the impression of being involved. To have a system that operates the brakes for me in certain situations according to an algorithm is the opposite to the nature of this car.

I’ve driven cars with the hillstart assist feature and though they are sometimes useful, sometimes they are downright annoying. I park my car on my sloping driveway and have to reverse downhill to get out. I roll backwards in first gear so that gear is preselected when I hit the road to make a quick getaway. A hill start assist feature wouldn’t let me do this with the car in gear. I’d have to select the gear, let off the brake and “bump” the clutch to let the computer let the brakes off. Anywhere you want the car to roll backwards while in gear it would not allow you until you let the clutch out a bit. When manoeuvring a manual car around you actually do this quite a bit. Not for me thanks.

[Summerwolf]

Not at all. I can drive and hills do not pose a challenge. Would love to disable this on my beater forester.... but I can't.

Originally Posted by Poodles

One can do the exact same thing manually with the parking brake...

Lol, or by driving.

[Bach415]

Originally Posted by qqzj

This is a great feature. Anybody who drove in SF can understand why. Maybe one can get by w/o this feature, but his clutch won't appreciate it.

I'm live in SF and I get by it w/o this feature. My clutch is still good after 38k miles and can see more coming. My gf lives on a really steep hill and I just use my parking brake as a guideline to get started. Don't really need hill assist imo. Every one I know in SF that drives a wrx/sti that comes with hill assist has it turned off.

[Ricepuddin]

My drive to work is mostly uphill in bumper to bumper traffic.

Turned Hill assist on once, nope the fuck out of that.

It's really not hard driving on hills , just practice .

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[twag4]

I believe the two pedals to the right of the clutch also serve this purpose.

[Speedinbai]

I turned hill start on for about a month when I got my 17 and mind you I live in a pretty flat town with a few but very steep hills it did little to nothing on the hills and caused me to stall more on flat areas. Once I realized this turned it off no more stalling. It seems like a good idea but in practice it's annoying

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[RJasonKlein]

I'm pretty sure that this technology is for newbies, millennials, and chicks.

[Speedinbai]

Originally Posted by RJasonKlein

I'm pretty sure that this technology is for newbies, millennials, and chicks.

Newbie and millennial and here and I still think it's useless

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[mjanmohammad]

My hill assist stays off because mama didn't raise no bitch.

Also I live in Dallas and hills are mythical entities.

[DAEMANO]

Originally Posted by RJasonKlein

I'm pretty sure that this technology is for newbies, millennials, and chicks.

This millennial might have a few words to say about that... if you could catch her... up any hill... or any road... on any day.
@MicheleAbbate

[zc06_kisstherain]

i remember when i was driving first manual. whenever i see hill and see red light. i was like "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk kkkkkk!!!!