How to use hill assist in a manual?

[cbring]

Hi all, noob here. Usually i just hold the brake hard and it stops rolling backwards on hills. I cant seem to get it to work in the manual supra. I tried looking for a hill assist setting in the menu unsuccessfully. I have just been using the parking brake to cheat now.

Any guidance on how to activate hill assist hold in the manual?

Edit: turns out you need to be in first gear. It works in sport and normal mode. I’ve been doing it in neutral lol. Thanks guys super helpful

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[Rocksandblues]

you have a brake pedal in between the go pedal and the clutch.

You should NOT use the emergency brake to hold the car on a hill while driving!

Maybe you should have gotten the AT?

My daughter drives a manual VW and does not have issues on hills.

 

[cbring]

Lol ok snappy

 

[puzzled]

Geez man... get a faking automatic if you can't even heel toe start a MT on a climb. I'm teaching one of my kids MT and I have hill assist turned off on my WRX so that the car intentionally rolls back as a proper MT should when one sucks at driving.

All this MT phrase pisses me off when folks can't even drive the car. But it's not about me so GL!

 

[A90.C]

Don’t recall, but it’s in the Owners Manual. Hill Assist Control (HAC)

 

[AdamP]

I want to say the HAC mode kicks in when you come to a complete stop but it has to be at a certain degree when you have the safety mode on.

 

[puckshaw]

What the hell is wrong with people in this thread? Who heel toes for hills? Normally you’d hold the handbrake while giving some gas and letting out the clutch until it holds itself. Obviously we can’t do that in these cars so it has the hill assist which works better than other cars I’ve been in.

Mine was on by default and kicks in on hills when you apply strong pressure to the brake. It will time out though if you don’t start moving after releasing the brake. I haven’t seen any setting in the menus to disable it but it might be some weird sequence of button holds like other cars. If it never worked, you may want to bring it in for service.

 

[Rhane]

Is it not automatically applied when you’re at a complete stop on a hill? I’ve noticed when I’m stopped on an incline, it’ll hold for 2-3 seconds so I can give it some gas

 

[zrk]

Normally you’d hold the handbrake while giving some gas

I've driven manual cars for like 25 years and never used the handbrake on a hill. Hell, half of the manual cars (older pickup trucks, etc) I've had didn't even have a handbrake. Just the parking foot brake.

 

[Rhane]

I've driven manual cars for like 25 years and never used the handbrake on a hill. Hell, half of the manual cars (older pickup trucks, etc) I've had didn't even have a handbrake. Just the parking foot brake.

I used the handbrake + gas technique with my FRS on very steep inclines when I first start the car since it’s already up but otherwise I don’t use it

 

[AutoDelight]

Driving in San Francisco taught me how blend quick with little roll back (people are assholes and like to be right on your ass on hills, you learn quick in that environment). On my 2017 Miata, it locked to prevent roll back for a couple of seconds which was neat. I taught the E-Brake trick to a lot of my buddies when teaching them MT back in the day and worked really well. Not trying to gaslight anyone on here but hills for some people are very small grades while hills for other people are some steep pieces of shit. With 20 years of MT myself, i didn't learn the e-brake trick until after the fact and never used it myself but i haven't heard or seen anyone heal-toe on a hill. But kids these days will heal toe at a stop light in a level road so yeah. I know i heal-toe it on the Model Y.

 

[J29DB03]

Anything to do with Normal vs Sport mode?

 

[cbring]

Anything to do with Normal vs Sport mode?

Maybe..ill give it a try i have only been driving in sport lol

 

[XtremeMaC]

Driving in San Francisco taught me how blend quick with little roll back (people are assholes and like to be right on your ass on hills, you learn quick in that environment). On my 2017 Miata, it locked to prevent roll back for a couple of seconds which was neat. The taught the E-Brake trick to a lot of my buddies when teaching them MT back in the day and worked really well. Not trying to gaslight anyone on here but hills for some people are very small grades while hills for other people are some steep pieces of shit. With 20 years of MT myself, i didn't learn the e-brake trick until after the fact and never used it myself but i haven't heard or seen anyone heal-toe on a hill. But kids these days will heal toe at a stop light in a level road so yeah. I know i heal-toe it on the Model Y.

Exactly!
There are steep, long and busy hills with traffic lights at the top. In another lifetime, in a city full of bumper to bumper traffic everywhere, especially rush hours, steep hill, slippery rain conditions, doesn't matter how great you're with the clutch, unless you want to smoke your clutch or slide n hit the car an inch away from you, you've no choice but to use the handbrake to assist...

Anyhow, if you've gotten a manual, you gotta get better at feeling the clutch engagement point and depress as you're slowly pressing the gas pedal on hills.

Ps. Been driving manuals the past 20 years. Haven't in the 6 months
Some cars had heavy clutches. Not missing those..

 

[AutoDelight]

Exactly!
There are steep, long and busy hills with traffic lights at the top. In another lifetime, in a city full of bumper to bumper traffic everywhere, especially rush hours, steep hill, slippery rain conditions, doesn't matter how great you're with the clutch, unless you want to smoke your clutch or slide n hit the car an inch away from you, you've no choice but to use the handbrake to assist...

Anyhow, if you've gotten a manual, you gotta get better at feeling the clutch engagement point and depress as you're slowly pressing the gas pedal on hills.

Ps. Been driving manuals the past 20 years. Haven't in the 6 months
Some cars had heavy clutches. Not missing those..

I feel it.. one of my RX7's has a 6 puck clutch and there are many regrets on putting that in. Will eventually be swapping it out for a little more drivability. I don't know what i was thinking when installing it.. thinking i wanted to push out some major power on it but 330whp is good enough for the FD.

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