OT Hazard warning lights and hard braking

[Jim K..]

still the fiat then?

[Graham.]

Under the drivers seat.

The little one at the RHS of the dash is pretty stealth too, I kept my tomtom in there.

[Jim K..]

Or old rovers

[Jim K..]

another London "advantage" - cars rarely get moving quick enough to need it...

[Jim K..]

Oh dear is the squirming Alzheimer's starting yet again?

[Jim K..]

Promising that you've started to self diagnose, shame you'll forget it all & have to start again & again & again til the white coats come for you.

Hope you end up in a bubble full of people parking in bus stops & talking your kind of BS. ;-)

[ARW]

Well I never knew that. They turn on automatically if you slam the brakes on.

First time that has happened and I have done 100000 miles in that van.

[Graham.]

I was driving an Octavia for over a year before I realised that the breaks came on to stop you rolling back when moving off on a hill, I was using the handbrake as I have always done.

I also found a useful cubbyhole that I didn't know was there when I was cleaning the interior prior to handing it back.

[ARW]

Yes. It lasted 3 weeks from the new bumper, wing, headlight, power steering pump repairs that I caused by running into the wall before the drive shaft fell out.

[Jethro_uk]

Had that on a Renault 15 years ago.

Good idea.

[alan_m]

On a Ford Focus it is called hill assist and was PITA when attempting to park in a very tight space on a hill. After a few attempts to park and found to to be a hindrance than helpful I found the menu option to turn it off.

[ARW]

Which cubbyhole? I have an Octavia.

[Bob Eager]

That happened to me with the old Ford Galaxy (the one that was also a Seat Alhambra dn a VW Sharan). I was cleaning it before selling it and found two storage lids in front on the front door pockets!

[Brian Gaff]

You are lucky the shotgun cartridge in the seet belt and the air bag did not go off as well! grin. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

And you did not cut your chin on the sharp edge on the drivers door either? Brian

[Andrew Gabriel]

Came as a surprise to me too after driving my Fiesta for 10 years. Was probably the first time I'd had to brake hard in it.

[Roger Mills]

I used to have a Volvo which massively increased the servo boost if you hit the brakes hard, but I don't think the hazards came on automatically.

Does your handbook say that yours are *supposed* to turn on automatically - or could the heavy braking have caused something to fall onto the switch?

[Fredxx]

I only became aware of hazards coming on with heavy braking after watching top gear and their "reasonably priced car".

[Robin]

It (emergency stop signalling) is already a feature on many vehicles and is one of the things the Commission proposed last year should be compulsory on all new cars from 2021.

[ARW]

Ta. I had not seen the one under the seat.

Although saying that I have only driven it doxen times since I got it at Christmas.