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OK it's all "Fly by Wire" on modern cars but why are these new systems so often not as efficient as a good old fashioned accelerator cable?
When I drive my wife's Captur TCe I've stopped using eco mode as it is far too sluggish but even in normal mode; which provides quite acceptable performance for the engine size; the first half inch of accelerator movement is just taking up slack until something happens.
OK I'm used to much better response driving a 160bhp MGTF on which I have set the accelerator cable to a "hair trigger" but the 3 litre 220bhp V6 Alfa Spider I owned in the past also had "fly by wire" & that did respond immediately with no pedal lag.
Surely the engine on the Captur should deliver what it has as soon as you press the accelerator? Yet again it's probably electronics thinking it knows better!!
IS THIS NORMAL or do we have a rectifiable fault?
When I drive my wife's Captur TCe I've stopped using eco mode as it is far too sluggish but even in normal mode; which provides quite acceptable performance for the engine size; the first half inch of accelerator movement is just taking up slack until something happens.
OK I'm used to much better response driving a 160bhp MGTF on which I have set the accelerator cable to a "hair trigger" but the 3 litre 220bhp V6 Alfa Spider I owned in the past also had "fly by wire" & that did respond immediately with no pedal lag.
Surely the engine on the Captur should deliver what it has as soon as you press the accelerator? Yet again it's probably electronics thinking it knows better!!
IS THIS NORMAL or do we have a rectifiable fault?