So I was driving around earlier, and found out HEY, I have hill hold!

 

 

SWEET! I thought I'd felt it doing its thing there a couple of times. It's nice to have, that's for sure.

 

 

I'm just severely confused because it never worked for the 10 months I've owned it. Until now. And it works perfectly.

 

Any ideas?

Probably just out of adjustment. I haven't looked into the way the hill brake works exactly yet, but it's a cable operated line lock solenoid. You hit the brakes, then push the clutch pedal down, this closes a valve inside the hill holder mechanism which keeps pressure in the rear brake lines. The adjustment is on the clutch release lever where the end of the hill holder cable feeds through the lever. It has a very small lock nut and a 11 or 12mm adjusting nut which can probably be turned by hand.

You want to adjust the hill hold to release the brakes right as the clutch starts to grab. I hate the system... but the way I adjust it is by putting the car on a hill and getting it so that when I let up the clutch enough to release the brakes, the car stays put on the hill with the clutch dragging.

And BTW there is no solonoid (at least on my '96 there isn't). It's completely mechanical.