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Engine start

The engine start is carried out on vehicles with manual transmission in the following conditions regardless of the switch-on requester:

The engine start is carried out on vehicles with automatic transmission in the following conditions:

On vehicles with automatic transmission the brake pedal can establish readiness for drive off and start the engine.

  1. Operate brake pedal strongly
  2. Release brake pedal a little
  3. Engine is started.

On vehicles with the "Automatic Hold" function the engine is only started after operation of the accelerator pedal.