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Just to round this thread off, the Kamiq went yesterday. I sold it to "Best Car Buyer" who beat offers from WBAC, Cazoo and my dealership by a large margin. It all went very smoothly and te driver took the car only when the cleared funds had appeared in my account. End of an era 🥲.

Yes I was aware but thank you. p.s. Nearly forgot my main reason for posting which was to say that of all the vehicles I've owned starting with a Francis Barnett Falcon in 1963, the two that stood head and shoulders above the rest were my Black Edition Yeti and then when I was doing many less miles my 1.2 SE DSG Yeti both great cars and fondly remembered 🙂

Of course you're right. At a purely personal level, being more or less housebound, disabled and most importantly widowed it's sometimes difficult to appreciate that 😏. I would add that, thankfully I'm compos mentis and have a lifetime of happy memories to comfort me 🙂

Thanks, it's a hard decision but the right one 🙂

I was a critic in the past of people on the road who should not in the interest of safety be there. I now have to admit that I'm in that category myself 🙄. My Kamiq is being picked up by one of the online traders tomorrow. It's goodbye from me. Most of my motoring tranclements will go to members of the family but there's a set of unused mats going free to anyone who can pick them up (in Chesterfield area and not worth travelling far for).

That raised a question in my mind and I see I'm not the first to wonder.

😁 yes I wondered if it was a Yeti hearse.

There was absolutely no reason for the car having pulled me to the nearside in the first place. Anyway I see no point in hammering the point any further.

Presumably that is when you think that at some time during your journey you'll be doing so, you turn it off before setting off? So what you're saying is that when you anticipate reaching the speed at which it activates, you disable it in advance. I generally turn it off before setting out on a journey but forget to do so on my return. I can't get out of my habit of getting in the car, starting the engine and setting off. I know it's easily overpowered, I didn't crash although I was a matter of a few inches away from doing so.

Here to be exact but without any other traffic on the road.

I've never done so either. I took a much firmer hold of the steering wheel and straightened up again that is all. I was driving along a long straight and level moorland road with no markings where the metalled surface dropped straight onto the grass which then sloped down into a ditch. I was totally unaware of Lane Assist and when the car suddenly pulled to the nearside I thought I'd got a nearside flat. Scoff if you will.

There have been quite a few threads discussing Lane Assist and I've stated my dislike of the 'feature' at length several times. The irony is that it is one of the items required to achieve an NCAP rating. It's fair to say that there are both opponents and proponents who have posted in the threads but it's a moot point anway, we are stuck with it. For my part I made my feelings clear directly to NCAP when I completed their online form. What exacerbated the danger for me was that the salesman who did the handover made no mention of Lane Assist whatsoever and it almost threw me into a ditch as I drove home in my new car from the dealers. I've also had problems with the infotainment system which just randomly changes the time, the radio channel, freezes occasionally and the drivers seat back which needs winding back towards upright every other time I use the car. Fortunately, I make very little use of the car (6,000 miles & 3 years old in December). I regretted exchanging my last Yeti almost from day 1.

It's my fault. I tend to forget that I need to spend a while waiting for the system to boot up and load my profile at which point I can then go into the menu/settings and switch the driver assistance options off together with the stop/start. Then I have to adjust the self lowering seat backrest. I can't get out of that old habit of getting into the car, starting the engine and driving off.

I'm old and am bedevilled by lower back pain and sciatica in my left leg telling me that there is a problem. I've got used to that just the same as I have the PITA lane assist 😁 p.s. I think the car has realised that it is no longer annoying me so it's started putting up a large red proximity warning everytime I pass a centre bollard 200 yards up the road from me.

.. or if it's like mine and only falls off when the car is parked in direct sunshine - park in the shade 😁