freeman

BJK is quite correct above. His sequence of keeping it in neutral but depressing the clutch and the brake avoids the hill hold but takes a different level of coordination. Taking my foot off the brake and simultaneously slipping it into gear and then hitting the throttle and popping the clutch should work but may be too much to expect of this 71 year old. I will try it in the morning.

Larry Cable

I was taught not to keep the clutch in while on a hill; apparently something to do with increased wear on the mechanism...

select neutral

coast to a stop

hold on foot break

when ready to move off, depess clutch, select gear, bring clutch up to just before the biting point

release brake and move foot to accelerator

release clutch at the same time as depressing accelerator

voila - a hill start

freeman

Larry-

That is the way I have driven a MT vehicle since I was sixteen. However, as you recognize from your new GTS, as soon as you put it in gear and remove your foot from the brake and move it toward the accelerator, it is in hill hold before your foot hits the accelerator.

aggie57

Visitor question - does it engage the emergency brake on a 991? In my 997 it engaged the foot brake. Never worried me BTW, although I did stall it a couple of times on restart. Liked the way it worked in reverse too on my short but reasonably steep driveway.

BJK

To clarify, I don't think the auto start/stop economy feature has anything to do with hill hold. What I was trying to say was that if you do not have the clutch depressed, but the car is stopped on a hill with your foot on the brake and in gear, (remove variable #(1) from my list but keep the other three), the car will stall! But push the clutch in and it automatically restarts.

Hill hold should work just the same with auto start/stop turned off as it does with it on.

MKW

Even worse was driving three different Sciroccos on those same steep SF hills 35 + yrs ago ....front wheel drive car , add in some foggy streets with polished cable car tracks undeneath you ....in stop and go traffic moving inches at a time and there was alternating slipping clutch smell or unloaded madly spinning front tires desperately clawing for traction

Pavegeno928

Curiously, one of the worst hills in Stuttgart is on the exit from the Porsche Museum Parking Garage. At the top of the steep incline you have to stop and put your ticket in the machine to raise the gate and exit. That's where I first encountered Hill Hold. Stalled it out twice. Realized that the secret to Hill Hold is to release the clutch at a slower than normal pace. Releasing it like normal doesn't allow it to release. Now I enjoy the feature.

freeman

Pavegeno928 has it quite correct:

I went out and did just what he recommended. Releasing the clutch gently on an incline releases the Hill Hold inconspiculously.

Thank you all!

Scottish Pete

Studebaker had a "hill-holder"

chuckbdc

An actual knowledgeable and informative response to the OP question!

Key Left

So did a 1941 Cadillac, it was called "no-roll".