Do A110s get dementia
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On our way up to Scotland to complete a bit of the NC500 we hadn't been able to see last time (impenetrable mist) a couple of odd things happened.
Firstly the sat nav on occasion lost her voice. Start up and sometimes she'd speak and sometimes not. Switching off and on again didn't change things unless the stop was a few minutes. Text to speech was similarly affected.Not found a solution yet.
Perhaps more oddly was the stop start system. To date that has only worked after a long motorway run. We got stuck for nearly 3hours(!!!) in a queue on the A74M. Stop start WASN'T working. Because of the delay we stopped the engine manually - running out of fuel would have been a disaster. I was getting concerned that a flat battery might have been similarly disastrous - but the car started faultlessly many many times. The battery must have been very low. However an hour and half or so later when got into town traffic - stop start worked every time! Not sure that is a good thing - but odd in the extreme nevertheless.
Any ideas?
Firstly the sat nav on occasion lost her voice. Start up and sometimes she'd speak and sometimes not. Switching off and on again didn't change things unless the stop was a few minutes. Text to speech was similarly affected.Not found a solution yet.
Perhaps more oddly was the stop start system. To date that has only worked after a long motorway run. We got stuck for nearly 3hours(!!!) in a queue on the A74M. Stop start WASN'T working. Because of the delay we stopped the engine manually - running out of fuel would have been a disaster. I was getting concerned that a flat battery might have been similarly disastrous - but the car started faultlessly many many times. The battery must have been very low. However an hour and half or so later when got into town traffic - stop start worked every time! Not sure that is a good thing - but odd in the extreme nevertheless.
Any ideas?
Hi BCR,
Regarding the Stop/Start, that’s perfectly normal behaviour for the A110 In my experience. For the first 3000KM, the S/S never came on at all. Now it does intermittently, never consistently, and more often not at all. Doesn’t bother me as l find it too abrupt and would anyway switch it off. Part of it’s French eccentric character l would say! Nothing to worry about.
The Sat/Nav gremlin is probably best solved by having the infotainment software re-installed. I had constant bluetooth connection issues which were solved by a s/w re-install. Worked a treat.
M.
Regarding the Stop/Start, that’s perfectly normal behaviour for the A110 In my experience. For the first 3000KM, the S/S never came on at all. Now it does intermittently, never consistently, and more often not at all. Doesn’t bother me as l find it too abrupt and would anyway switch it off. Part of it’s French eccentric character l would say! Nothing to worry about.
The Sat/Nav gremlin is probably best solved by having the infotainment software re-installed. I had constant bluetooth connection issues which were solved by a s/w re-install. Worked a treat.
M.
regarding being stopped in traffic leaving the car to idle especially with ac off uses very little fuel maybe a liter an hour and given the temperamental nature of alpine stop start I would have let it idle for long periods rather than constantly start and stop the engine to crawl 20 feet repeatedly.
a110au said:
regarding being stopped in traffic leaving the car to idle especially with ac off uses very little fuel maybe a liter an hour and given the temperamental nature of alpine stop start I would have let it idle for long periods rather than constantly start and stop the engine to crawl 20 feet repeatedly.
You may well be right, but having no way of knowing what the idle consumption might be, I wasn't keen to find out - possibly the hard way. I suppose I could have done some sums based on what the car might do on a flat road at 40mph - perhaps 60(miles) to the gallon - 3l/hour. You'd hope/expect that it would do better than that at idle, but that relies on the engine being efficient at 1000 rpm or so.Edited by bcr5784 on Friday 23 September 08:50
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