Who else manipulates ess with brake pressure?

[track.n.trail]

I’ve turned ESS off permanently with a TazerJL. Pointless feature IMO

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[Sgt Beavis]

I used to use that trick to keep the engine going. Then I got the Tazer JL. Life is much easier now.

 

[WranglerMan]

Turned off mine with a Smart Stop/Start module like 2+ years ago never have missed it.

 

[Sean L]

To everyone talking about permanent disabling of the Start/Stop... you're beating a dead horse, that's not what OP was asking about...

Strategic use of the Start/Stop is the purpose of the brake pressure method, not permanently disabling the system.

 

[ErAcEr]

I’ve been playing around with trying to have ess activate only when I want it to. It seems that one of the main triggers is additional brake pressure after stopping. Its fairly easy to keep it from activating by slowly releasing brake pressure as you stop, and then being careful not to add more pressure after you stop. Doing this has become routine and now I basically activate it only at long lights or other situations I know it might actually save a little gas. It’s not 100%, but works most of the time.

Just curious if anybody else does this.

Two questions to this since I have a MT


1. Does the AT have a trans-brake for when stopped on hills like the MT does?
If so
2. How does the pressure trick apply to hills (or what you have noticed), or do you have to go full stop?

Thanks

 

[Sean L]

Two questions to this since I have a MT


1. Does the AT have a trans-brake for when stopped on hills like the MT does?
If so
2. How does the pressure trick apply to hills (or what you have noticed), or do you have to go full stop?

Thanks

ESS is disabled by the computer when you're on a steep enough of an incline. The AT still has a "Hill Start Assist" that I found to make the ESS restarts to be very jerky so I turned that off. It didn't make much sense to me for an AT anyways.

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