Having my 2011 4.4 for the last few months, I've only just found out that when you apply the handbrake when waiting at lights, junctions etc etc, you don't need to manually release the handbrake when you are ready to move off. Just touch the accelerator and it automatically releases it for you and off you go. Who'd of thought eh? I love finding out new things on the fatty that I never knew about.

Works on a hill start too.  405 AB exec seats Baltic and Cirrus
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That's exactly how I found out, being in the valleys full of hills. Put handbrake on a steeple hill junction, forgot I put it on as I was there a fair bit and accelerated to pull out and it moved off with no bong. So I tried the same again at some lights and thought what a result.

I like to take it off manually, just me….. the car has a feature where if you come off the foot brake it holds pressure for a bit so you can get on the throttle without rolling back. That’s separate to the hand brake, but that prob does a similar thing to. Some clever stuff going on, most of which is probably to assist off roading.

 2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

Previous cars :
2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
1992 BMW M5 3.8
1988 BMW 735i SE
1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

Not just you who prefers to release the park brake manually.
The hill-start hold feature is specifically for use such as taking off from the lights.

I didn't even know it had hill hold feature either until you guys told me. I just thought it was the characteristics of it being an auto of not rolling. I have been using the auto release since I found out it can do it. Am I just being lazy not moving arm to do it myself?

I’m not keen on that little time period where you press the throttle and the handbrake is still on. I’m sure it’s fine and can also work that way, as indeed does, but I don’t like keep doing it. In the same way that when I park up, I put the handbrake on with my foot still on the brake, gearbox into N, foot off brake (weight of car settles on handbrake) then I select P. I don’t like the weight of the car hanging on the gearbox, as it were…. But then I’m a bit set in my ways 🤣. Some folks just use P and never use the handbrake, not for me….

 2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

Previous cars :
2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
1992 BMW M5 3.8
1988 BMW 735i SE
1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

Sorry to appear like a smart ass, but I've known this for sixteen years!

The 3.6TDV8 was the same, so it's not just the later cars.

That's exactly what I do too Mj, like you I always put it in neutral then handbrake on. As I park on a slight incline outside the house I'm rather sure it will do it the world of good not resting on the gearbox in park. I always put it in neutral when I'm stationary at lights etc etc too. I was told many years ago by a very old school mechanic who did classic car restorations namely jaguar E-types, to put it in neutral when you are stationary so there's no unnecessary force on the gearbox, that was his number one rule with autos.

So only now you just tell us this info JMC lol? Anything else we should know about that you know that we don't?

Barmybrummie wrote:

Anything else we should know about that you know that we don't?

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Barmybrummie wrote:

So only now you just tell us this info JMC lol? Anything else we should know about that you know that we don't?

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There something else I've found out too, mine has follow me home reversing lights too. Now that's very handy.

If you have the handbrake on and the door is open it won’t automatically release.

Barmybrummie wrote:

I always put it in neutral when I'm stationary at lights etc etc too.