I also always thought it was weird that it only shut down at a complete stop, and I have heard other people say that perhaps it's a start / stop code applied to a manual transmission. The two things that make me think this isn't the case is the randomness of it, and there has to be a bunch of people working on this, flashing cars all the time to try and figure it out, I can't believe someone would miss this.
That VW hasn't figured it out after all these months makes me think it could be something that can't actually be fixed.
Sometimes people can’t see the woods for the trees!!
I spoke of how I thought it might be a phantom stop/start issue far far back in this thread, I still believe it and I’m sticking to that theory! The apparent randomness of stalls car to car though would have me believe it couldn’t be a stop/start issue, the manor of driving, along with usual stop/start prerequisites that stop the system cutting in on cars to which it IS fitted, such as steering angle, battery charge etc could account for the apparent randomness though, so for now I still believe this is the issue, particularly as it is only happening on cars to which stop/start is not fitted, I know some DSG owners have reported it and one EU car, but I honestly don’t believe those to be the same issue.
again: it doesn't only stall at a complete stop. For most owners, it usually stalls in motion, coasting into a stop, while in neutral or clutch down.
The car isn't always stopped when it stalls, so it's not like auto start/stop. It also stalls within a second or two of a full stop. Not at all like auto start/stop.
The engine shuts off in the "same quiet way," but that's it. Does that make sense?
I guess it's more accurate to say that it's not like a user-error stall (a bit violent) than to say that it's like auto start-stop, because the latter misses a lot of the actual behavior.