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Originally Posted by olrocker
Thanks I’ll give that a try. I know it’s probably to no avail.
Those flappers obviously never owned a manual transmission as an everyday driving car. I’ve been driving nothing but stick for 25 years but occasionally I stall in traffic. Not often, but it happens. To everyone. And anyone who owns a stick for everyday driving and tells you they haven’t stalled once since they began to learn, even if they’ve been driving stick for 40 years, is lying.
Having driven stick that long, when I do stall, I know what happens before it happens so I almost instinctively punch the clutch without touching the brake, to restart and the car and it has a little forward momentum, about 2-3 mph. Traffic behind you will start to roll. You can start it on that roll then you’re off with no problems.
But when I have to slam on the brake, and they don’t know why nor should they be expected to, I cringe!!!!!!!
It’s a quirk the engineers never thought of in R&D when they were testing the car I can guarantee you.
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I hear you loud and clear, this safety feature GM added to the car is actually a hazard, too. There are a few things I'd love to change in the car's software, too, but once I looked at the GM SDK (the software development kit they offer), all you could do was write another useless radio or media player or slideshow or mapping app that nobody cares about. No access to anything real or interesting, like powertrain or DIC.
This is where WAMS may come through for you, because they can change actual BCM module code, unlock features or port them from another model/trim, I'm just not sure if they can modify these safety aspects.
Btw although I have the A8 in my Camaro, I also stalled the stick diesel beater I had to borrow the other day, thinking it'd have more torque off the line. Learned it didn't, and gave it a bit more gas from then on, probably happens to everyone once in a while.