It has annoyed me for the past year that unlike my previous car you are supposed to hold the approprioiate button in and wait for the car to slow or speed up to the required speed, as stated in the manual. It does not tell you in the manual that a quick tap on the appropriate button increases or reduces the speed by around 1km per tap.

I found this out by trial and error the other day, and is a feature I used to use all the time on my previous car and really missed, as it is a quick and easy way to adjust the cars speed to adjacent traffic. It takes a few seconds after the tap but then you notice the speed in Km's has changed appropriately, which is much easier to check than the speedo dial.

Has anyone come across other built in features not descibed in the manual?

It has annoyed me for the past year that unlike my previous car you are supposed to hold the approprioiate button in and wait for the car to slow or speed up to the required speed, as stated in the manual. It does not tell you in the manual that a quick tap on the appropriate button increases or reduces the speed by around 1km per tap.

I found this out by trial and error the other day, and is a feature I used to use all the time on my previous car and really missed, as it is a quick and easy way to adjust the cars speed to adjacent traffic. It takes a few seconds after the tap but then you notice the speed in Km's has changed appropriately, which is much easier to check than the speedo dial.

Has anyone come across other built in features not descibed in the manual?

Interesting. I have played with this as it was as you describes on my Octavia, but not noticed it on the Yeti. Maybe it takes much longer to respond....I wonder....

It has annoyed me for the past year that unlike my previous car you are supposed to hold the approprioiate button in and wait for the car to slow or speed up to the required speed, as stated in the manual. It does not tell you in the manual that a quick tap on the appropriate button increases or reduces the speed by around 1km per tap.

I found this out by trial and error the other day, and is a feature I used to use all the time on my previous car and really missed, as it is a quick and easy way to adjust the cars speed to adjacent traffic. It takes a few seconds after the tap but then you notice the speed in Km's has changed appropriately, which is much easier to check than the speedo dial.

Has anyone come across other built in features not descibed in the manual?

Mmmmm ... perhaps this just goes to show that those of us who never bother to read the manual in the first place, and find out through trial and error, have the right approach after all I found out how this worked the first time I switched on the cruise control

I checked my cruise control stalk yesterday and you really don't need the manual to hear about this feature! The + and - signs are printed clear as day in the stalk next to Resume and Set!

It has annoyed me for the past year that unlike my previous car you are supposed to hold the approprioiate button in and wait for the car to slow or speed up to the required speed, as stated in the manual. It does not tell you in the manual that a quick tap on the appropriate button increases or reduces the speed by around 1km per tap.

I found this out by trial and error the other day, and is a feature I used to use all the time on my previous car and really missed, as it is a quick and easy way to adjust the cars speed to adjacent traffic. It takes a few seconds after the tap but then you notice the speed in Km's has changed appropriately, which is much easier to check than the speedo dial.

Has anyone come across other built in features not descibed in the manual?

I had this exact same set up on my P reg Volvo V70 tdi auto and it was a joy to use.

Can't wait to play with it again when our SM arrives in Sept/Oct.

Dom.

Interesting that the Roomster Owners manual does tell you about this feature, page 93...

You can also change the speed of the vehicle without depressing the

accelerator.

Faster

– You can increase the stored speed without depressing the accelerator, by pressing

the rocker button  page 92, fig. 96 into the RES+ position.

– The speed of the car will increase continuously if you hold the rocker button

pressed in the RES+ position. Once the vehicle has reached the desired speed,

release the rocker button. The set speed is then stored in the memory.

Slower

– You can decrease the stored speed by pressing the rocker button in the SETposition.

– Holding down the pushbutton pressed in the SET- position will cause the speed of

the vehicle to reduce continuously. Once the vehicle has reached the desired

speed, release the rocker button. The set speed is then stored in the memory.

I wonder why Yeti owners are not told this?

See p 120....

No the issue is the one + or - click increase /decrease?

Interesting that the Roomster Owners manual does tell you about this feature, page 93...

I wonder why Yeti owners are not told this?

The Yeti owner's manual has the exact same wording. I think it's down to a question of how people read the manual - both how closely they read it, and how they interpret what they read. I know that, having never had cruise control before, I read that section of the manual the day I picked up my Yeti and I took advantage of my long drive home that day to get used to it. Either I read that section of the manual the way it is intended, or I worked it out pretty quickly, because I've known about the feature since day one with the car. Either way, I wouldn't really call it a "hidden" feature.

I suspect that the majority of cruise controls work this way. A pal of mine regularly plays the motorway driving game of seeing how far he can go without touching the accelerator or the brake, using only the cruise control uptick/downtick buttons to adjust his speed. He swapped his RAV for an X-Trail not so long ago and it made no difference to his entertainment...

The Yeti owner's manual has the exact same wording. I think it's down to a question of how people read the manual - both how closely they read it, and how they interpret what they read. I know that, having never had cruise control before, I read that section of the manual the day I picked up my Yeti and I took advantage of my long drive home that day to get used to it. Either I read that section of the manual the way it is intended, or I worked it out pretty quickly, because I've known about the feature since day one with the car. Either way, I wouldn't really call it a "hidden" feature.

I suspect that the majority of cruise controls work this way. A pal of mine regularly plays the motorway driving game of seeing how far he can go without touching the accelerator or the brake, using only the cruise control uptick/downtick buttons to adjust his speed. He swapped his RAV for an X-Trail not so long ago and it made no difference to his entertainment...

My previous car, a Superb, and others before it counted the taps on the control and adjustd in half mile per hour increments, and this was memorised by the controller. EG 4 taps and the speed changed by 2 miles per hour. The Yeti doesn't seem to memorise taps and only responds again once the new speed is set? It changes by around 2km/hour for each tap. In the superb manual I seem to recall the tap process was clearly documented.

My longest trip without touching the throtle or brakes was from somewhere along the A46 after going around its last roundabout before the M69. all the way up the M1, past leeds to the A63 junction, around 115 miles? It was quite late though with very little traffic. Not in the Yeti though, that was in the Superb a few years ago.