Disabling Stop-Start permanently with VCDS

[KiwiME]

Hi all, first post. Have just bought a new silver Cross Polo (1.2 81kW DG) in New Zealand and my first mod is to disable the Stop-Start feature. If I forget to hit the disable button on the dash when I get out to open my garage door it stops and of course I have to power off everything and restart manually because it won't restart automatically. In the area I live in the feature is of little value, not much traffic here and very few traffic lights.

Hooked up a borrowed Ross-Tech interface with the latest software and found the adaptation values for minimum and maximum temperature, per the procedure for a Mk7 Golf as outlined on another forum. The default settings are -50 C and 50 C, and the plan was to reverse those numbers so that S-S is never enabled. All I get is "value out of range."

Has anyone else done this on the 2014 Polo?

[Rik762]

I would be very interested in this also.

[peter_dk25]

In Danish, but look at the last issue in this thread (Works only on the 6C):
http://www.vagcars.dk/phpbb/viewtopic.p ... 8#p1007718

[KiwiME]

I first looked for "Start-Stop voltage" (my preferred option over temp) and it wasn't in the list.

Am going to try again later today with engine running this time, will look again for that item.


EDIT: OK, I found the item "Start/Stop start voltage limit" and set it to 12.1 V.

The Start/Stop status screen now indicates "Power consumption is high" which is what I expected, and the engine is not stopping anymore so it seems to have worked!