Hi, I've had my A4 Avant now for a couple of months, and so far have covered 6000 very happy miles in it.

Couple of minor niggles that I hoping for some advice on..

Firstly, the stop-start thing is a bit weird. Sometimes when coming to a stop I put the car into neutral, the engine cuts out, until I put it back into first gear. Most of the time when I put the car into neutral the engine remains on. Any ideas to why this is? (I never drive with cancel button on either, always remains unlit)

Similar experience with the handbrake. I would say 90% of the time when starting up the car, all I have to do is put the car into gear, 1st or reverse, and the hand-brake automatically disengages. Sometimes though, I get the 'press your foot on the brake pedal' message when putting the car into gear. I'm not doing anything differently.

I don't understand the logic of how these two devices work. Do you think this is a fault with the car? Am I doing something wrong.. As I said minor issues, but having spent 3 hours stop-starting on the M25 this evening, I was really struggling to understand how the stop-start device thing works, hence this post...

Any advice please,

Cheers, Rob