I have just had my first test drive in a Superb Estate and I was very impressed. One annoyance though was the lack of functions on the cruise control:

No display of cruise speed on the dashboard

No incremental change of setting even (5 presses = 5 miles per hour change, for example)

Am I missing something or is it really this crude?

When the cruise control is set the speed can be changed by 1km/hr by pressing the + reset or - set button. Holding the reset button down will increase the speed and holding the set button down will decrease the speed. I have found the cruise control very easy to use - easy as any steering wheel controls that I have previously used.

A speedo symbol appears when cruise is set. The rocker switch on the stalk increases or decreases your set speed.

If you brake the cruise knocks off but one press of the cruise button brings up the last set speed.

It's brilliant in average speed camera zones.

Phil

Love the Cruise control, Simple to use, and holds the speed very well, just keep button pressed for more or less speed

Over the in-laws Kia Cee'd cruise control, it's in a different class!

Al.

Much better than the Passat version to, with the separate stalk. Not sure why you would need an actual display of the speed set by the cruise control, surely you just turn it on at whatever speed you're doing, adjusting the speed and resuming accordingly?

Have to agree with Phil regarding average speed cameras, which are likely to become more popular, especially on our motorways!

I don't think it is very intuitive and user friendly. It would be great if you can see which is cruise control speed, you can temporally speed up, and you might forget what was last cruise speed. Others cruise controls I have used had indicator of cruise speed and current speed. I was hoping I could find some setting, but nothing except indicator that it is turned on. Also you can't see what is the new setting when you speed up with + button, you have to wait to reach that speed and wait to make sure it is OK.

I usually have two settings, high way, and local roads. I am used to set cruise speed immediately with +/- and forget about it. I am really surprised how it is done on Superb.

I've never had a car which displayed the speed setting for the cruise

And just flip the top rocker slightly when CC is on will put it in pause. Very usefull, but not mentioned anywhere in the manual. Same function as touching the brake pedal, but no foot on the pedal required. I use it very often when approching a small town and let the Superb just run the speed off. Not braking at all gives a good fuel economy :-)

Superb cruise is fine, I rarely need to use the brake pedal to cancel it (see above post) and if you can't remember what speed you set it to, then it's not the cars fault :no:

We hired a Grand Scenic a few years ago for a trip to London. It had a digital display for the Cruise Speed showing what it was set at. You could also dial in a speed. Say you were traveling at 30 then entered a 50 you just dialed in 50 and off it went.

I've never had a car which displayed the speed setting for the cruise

Me neither - they all seem to work this way - even in USA where I have driven all kinds of makes and models with cruise - over there though you get a bit more oomph when you press + !!! If I really have forgotten and want to see what my cruise is set to , I take foot off accelerator and look at speedo - but i have never forgotten

I've had cars with the speed display (Renault Laguna & VW Passat) and cars without (Mondeo and Superb).

I think that the display is of some use, but isn't really a big deal without it. The ability to creep up your speed with a few nudges on the rocker or hold it down to make a larger change in speed is just as easy as the +/-1 and +/-5 options the Passat had.

The one niggle for me relates to the size of the 'protrusion' on top of the switch on top of the lever; it is a bit small and I find myself sometimes indicating left as I try to knock it off.

That said, the number of times I flashed someone when trying to knock off the CC in the Passat !!!

I've taken to just dipping the clutch momentarily now instead (you don't need to really disengage the clutch) - it avoids panic braking when those behind see your brake lights.

Cruise control could be better if it had display of cruise speed. I never said that it is bad, all I need is to have some time to adapt. It is always little bit painful when you change car, interfaces, concept everywhere are little differences.

I've used to take foot of my pedals, and drive C4 Picasso with buttons. I didn't care about current speed, I was watching cruise speed and speed limits. Whenever speed limit changes, with buttons I would set desired speed and voilà - everything done. Another great feature in city driving was speed limiter, you couldn't exceed chosen speed, you had to press pedal like 'kick-down' to exceed limit.

On top of all this I find that Maxi Dot isn't very useful as I expected. Every command, setting, notification and warning were displayed on Picasso display. Here I find myself confused about lot of things that happen without accompanied message, just with beep, chime, indicator or whatever. And since this is third day with my Superb, it takes time to understand what just happened.

I don't think that C4 Picasso is the greatest car ever, just wanted to explain that I have little bit different experience because I was used to something else. However I think that we all can just benefit if there was cruise speed displayed somewhere

Edited 12 April, 201115 yr by rocktheroad

There is a cc display adaptation in VCDS - however on my superb (and a MY11 Yeti) even when 'activated' nothing appears on the dash - maybe this will change when Ross-Tech have done a few updates??

The indication of cruise speed, like BMWs Passat & A3, is particularly useful for motorway cruising, for example I know that a set speed of 74mph in my Passat is a road speed of exactly 70 (Sat Nav)no need to watch the speedo for the correct speed just click the set buttons up or down (in 1s or 5 incidentally) until the cruise speed indicates 74 and off you go. You can also set the cruise speed in the dashboard display before you engage it and know what it is set to before you resume.

I can just about live without the display but I have not used a cruise control since the 1980s that does not count the number of times you hit the increment/decrement button and add/subtract that number of mph to your cruise speed. The Passat (and all the above mentioned cars go one better than that by letting you add/subtract 5mph chunks if you choose.

I found myself sitting in a car with all current goodies keyless entry, electric bootlid, satnav, bluetooth etc. only to find it has a cruise control from Noahs Ark.

The operation of the cruise control is determined, no doubt, solely by the programming of the vehicle control electronics and I find it dissappointing that it has been left poorly featured.

As I said in my original post I was hoping I had missed something but from the responses so far it just seems that my expectations are too high.

My other car is an Audi TT mk2, and that has a separate stalk with the +-5mph feature and also shows the preset speed. I too find this much more intuitive than the system in the Superb, which I found took quite some getting used to, especially the rocker on the top to turn it off. I imagine the +-5mph feature would be quite easy to program into the set/reset switch, but displaying the cruise speed would mean swapping out some other maxidot display data.

I suspect that having the cc speed displayed would mean that the digital km/h would have to go. That would mean Skoda would have to fit a speedo with both mph and km/h displayed.

I've used the BMW system and that only shows the speed when you set it or resume.

The Nissan system in swmbo's x-trail works the same as the superb's albeit with different buttons. Personally, I have no preference and find both systems useful.

I just use the km/h in maxidot, set the speed with the cc and I see the exact speed in front of me all the time. I can't see the problem?

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Cruise control in Superb is absolutely adequate and user-friendly: requires pushing one button only to be activated, and no pushing at all for switching off - just accelerate or break. The off lever is not really needed if you use this device frequently. The speed is adjusted in step of 1 km per hour, and the digital speed display will show the current speed. Don't see any problems of inconveniences here.

I've never had a car which displayed the speed setting for the cruise

I have only seen it displayed in trucks which I drive, never in a car. Funny the cruise speed displayed in the MAN trucks is different to what is seen on the speedo.

I have seen it displayed on both trucks and cars, but TBH I do not miss it in the Superb, if you really want/need a digital MPH display of the speed you are doing then this can be activated with VCDS (just change the car's country from UK to Australia, do a search it has been covered in several threads already)

I have done this to a couple of cars (my Superb and 90000's Yeti) and can activate it for anyone prepared to travel to S.E.Kent

I'm certainly not convinced the car would be improved by having that display, I drive on the cruise for long distances when on the continent and just set it to 80mph and if I need to slow I just put it back on to resume, I dont need to look at the dash at all

Cruise control on the superb is better than any other car I've driven. Not sure what people are complaining about. It seems to cope a lot better with hills and bends than systems on other cars, as it tolerates a bit of fluctuation in the setpoint.

I would easily gave up from Speed Limiter Notification on MFD and have Cruise Control implemented as that. You would just select Cruise Control from MFD and with scroller set desired speed and confirm with scroller pressed, exactly how you are setting Speed Limit. I know why it is not there, because MFD doesn't come in all option packages. Instead of putting cheap MFD display as a standard across all trims we have stuck with cruise control from 90's. Because of 5% Superbs which went from factory without MFD they didn't offered, and that is where is subtle difference from premium brands.

Anyway I am glad it is there, and it will just take time to get used to it... And it is time to change my car from Picasso to Superb, in a profile and in head

Have to agree that the outer indicator of CC setting on the BMW speedo is useful.

Also pity you can adjust the increments values for the + / - button on the CC to change it from 1kph to 5kph for example.

Just my tuppence worth.