Some say that you can jam a small half filled bottle of water in the steering wheel. The motion of the water moving within the bottle makes the car think that you have hold of the wheel indefinitely.ACC Is bloody amazing!! Not sure I could get another car without it. Takes the stress out of long motorway journeys in traffic that isnt at a constant speed. Anyone tried it with lane assist on predictive? I find that useful shame it warns you to take back control of the wheel after a few bounces of the lines. Been looking into enabling predictive ACC, thats a game changer. Uses sat nav to adjust speed for corners along with traffic conditions, the VW arteon has it.
HAHA Now this is advice!Some say that you can jam a small half filled bottle of water in the steering wheel. The motion of the water moving within the bottle makes the car think that you have hold of the wheel indefinitely.
I do not condone this
Used it a few times now on a company vehicle and everytime I get so annoyed of people pulling into the gap in front on the motorway that I hate it.
Also a couple of times when in the fast lane in a right hand bend i think it picked up the car in the middle lane and slowed the car down. Very annoying.
Everyone seems to love it though, maybe I'm just too stuck in my ways with standard cruise control ! Haha
Ive the same thoughts mate, felt it was slightly dangerous at times.
Exactly my thoughts, you're the first person I've ever known to have the same opinion
Be careful with ACC - a cautionary tale here.
I had this on my mk7 Golf and some thieving scrote stole the sensor out of the front grille (there is no nod to security from VW here, 2 bolts and its plug and play). This is a common occurrence if you search online as thieves know they can sell the units on for hundreds of pounds. They all have individual part codes (same part number, but A-M I think they're up to, the code on the end). so finding the one your car needs is difficult. We couldn't find the 'J' we needed. To replace the unit cost £1273 from VW and the work to calibrate it (its proprietary technology) was £400. Ouch.
Unfortunately, the problem didn't end there. When it was stolen it caused numerous other faults with the start stop, traction control, tyre pressures, auto emergency braking randomly for no reason etc etc. This stopped the car from even starting twice and annoyingly I could switch the ignition on and turn the faults off that caused the problem, but couldn't start the engine without turning the ignition back off first and the faults would re-appear!
VWs first attempt to rectify this failed. This week the new owner (I sold it with full disclosure and the VW receipt for the works) has finally been told it SHOULD be sorted after its 4th trip to the stealers. Apparently the system is so interlinked that one fault causes the entire system to go haywire so it starts looking for faults it 'thinks' should be there even if they aren't, hence the random fault codes.
Anyway, when it works its awesome but be careful if anything goes wrong and watch out for sensor theft!
The newer Golfs have the sensor behind the VW badge to try and stop thefts but its still common to have the grille ripped out when you look online. I don't know whether the new Leons have this feature yet or if it will be a mk4 thing.
If you want your car to drive for you hire a chauffeur, otherwise pay attention and drive the car the way your suppose to!
We are just breeding a bunch of people who won't be able to drive correctly and will rely on these driver aids to get from A to B
I'd love to see the insurance form or pay out when you say the car braked for me and caused an accident!
Twice now the anti-crash on my Carbon has kicked in prematurely and nearly caused me to have an accident and both going down country lanes in the lake district!
First 2 things i do when i get in switch off stop start and disable the anti-crash/esc