Interested to know if anyone who owns a citigo has experienced any issues with the laser in the situations outlined in the user manual. A snapshot of the manual in the picture attached.

The complete manual is available for download here: https://mediaportal....wnersManual.pdf

Martin

Edited 13 July, 201213 yr by Martin|G|Allen

Got Citigo Elegance with City Safe less than a week ago Martin. Haven't read manual yet, but thanks for highlighting this important part. It is possible to switch City Safe on or off. Wonder if there are any recommendations, depending on driving circumstances? Must research this. The system is only active, when switched on, between speeds of 5 to 30kph, so this would avoid any unexpected behaviour on say a motorway during overtaking by other cars and lane changing at typical motorway or highway speeds. Otherwise it could be useful during snarl ups when creeping and concentration might lapse.

This might give your post a bump to see if, now that there are more Citigo's on the road, anyone has any comment.

I'm not sure what issues we mean, other than it looks straight ahead.

So obviously anything near the corners of the car that are small will not be picked up, neither will objects that you turn into on a corner.

Seems straightforward to me.

I've tested the system on our car and it works.

I'm not sure what issues we mean, other than it looks straight ahead.

So obviously anything near the corners of the car that are small will not be picked up, neither will objects that you turn into on a corner.

Seems straightforward to me.

I've tested the system on our car and it works.

The manual though highlights and illustrates some situations which might trigger an unexpected or undesired response.

The manual though highlights and illustrates some situations which might trigger an unexpected or undesired response.

Yes this was what I was getting at. I've seen a few car blogs cover it, so don't doubt its effectiveness, just wondering how it would work in the circumstances highlighted in the manual.

Would be be a pain in the backside down some really narrow Cornish roads? etc. etc.

We are thinking about testing mine ...

Ash does drive down some of our really narrow Cumbrian roads ( when they are not flooded like today) we'll let u know if it happens to us! I would think it would be an extraordinary set of circumstances to go wrong....

We are thinking about testing mine ...

Using the rear end of sharkriders car? My dealer told me that mine was ex factory tested by the mechanics in the garage during the PDI. They had not experienced it before and were testing it with cardboard boxes and had great fun by all accounts

Using the rear end of sharkriders car? My dealer told me that mine was ex factory tested by the mechanics in the garage during the PDI. They had not experienced it before and were testing it with cardboard boxes and had great fun by all accounts

We could let it roll into Tigger's car , get our own back but thats an idea ! cardboard boxes , saves us putting the sofa outside

I used a sheet, suspended between two posts.

Worked fine.

The kind of thing i am interested to try it switched on, is in thaw conditions.

THe system will automatically be off when the ambient temp is low enough.

But say there has been days of snow and freezing & hard packed back roads and driveways into the likes of a hotel.

Well at some point you get a thaw, the ambient temp rises, Air or Ground temperature.

That might be when you would want to 'switch off the system manually'.

Senario,

drive down a tree lined single road & snow drops from the tree and the car brakes automatically..

Or another one,

snow sliding off your roof or bonnet or from a car coming towards you, ? does your car brake on a thawing road surface of hard packed snow with a slick water surface on top.

Switching off the system might me necessary more to some people and in some areas, than with others.

Looking forward to trying it out.

Tried an early Fiat 500 with it & it was fun.

george

Don't forget it only works at low speeds

You gave me visions of driving along say at 30mph and all of a sudden it hits the brakes.

Mick

If you mean my senario, most hotel driveways or the like will be 10-15 mph speed limits.

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driving on sheet ice, or hard packed snow even tho it is warmer and thawing,

i think most people would be crawling along with ECO tyres fitted. Not touching the brakes just using the gears to slow.

(I would hope they are anyway...)

I am thinking of the likes of Blue Rinsers that might normally have a Polo, Fox, Yaris etc with their new top of range Citigo and never read the Owners Manual.

So unless the 'City Safe' is switched off for one of the reasons it does, it will be on.

*In this area you can have days or weeks of Zero Degrees like in 2010, then beautiful sunny warm days before the snow goes.*

Why i am keen once Automatic Citigo's become available to try one on poor surfaces with City Safe on.

george

EG

Exactly the type of situation i mean, lovely warm day about 12 degrees celcius, so their needs driver input to switch off the City Safe.

2nd picture, it was warm all day and thawing, freezing again as the sun sets by this picture.

theres an auto at my local dealer george.... I havent driven it.

Cheers,

i will find a Dealership with one, that i have not flamed, decried or slandered recently.

I might have to head to your local one then....

george