Hello,

 

I've read in one post on this forum that someones cruise control does not disengage when he/she presses the clutch.

This is the same in my case. It disengages the moment I press brake pedal but not if i press clutch. I've noticed that it disengages if I hold clutch for about 8 seconds.

Is this normal bahaviour for cruise control? I was a bit suprised when I tried to lower speed on the motorway with the engine and cruise control engaged again...

 

And second one... Does anyone know how to change number of blinks from 3 to 5. 3 is a bit low for my taste. I know it can be set to five on MKII but MKIII?

 

Best regards

 

 

 

That also happens on my BMW and it allows you to change gear and still keep the cruise active. Not as bad as you may think.

It disengages on pressing the clutch on my Leon, but it's an old generation car (Golf V).

 

I'd be interested in the blink number change too.

The Owner's Manual is pretty on cruise control (page 140, on top): "The Cruise Control System also remains activated after shifting the gear!"

 

Same page in the "Switching Off temporarily" section: "The cruise control system is temporarily switched off by pressing the switch A » Fig. 135 on page 140 into the spring-tensioned position CANCEL or by depressing the brake pedal." (so no mention of the clutch)

 

So yes, it is supposed to work like that. And yes, it is different from the old generations of VAG models. Personally I don't see a big problem with this since most of the time I would deactivate CC by pressing the brake pedal, not the clutch.

wonder if this is to do cater for adaptive cruise where fitted with it being able to change speed more the manual users can drop a gear without it turning off?

wonder if this is to do cater for adaptive cruise where fitted with it being able to change speed more the manual users can drop a gear without it turning off?

 

I think this answer is spot on.

Page 53 of owner's manual only refers to the convenience turn signal flashing 3 times, so guess it can't be changed to 5.

A lot of 'things' are possible with VCDS though ;-)

Hello,

 

I've read in one post on this forum that someones cruise control does not disengage when he/she presses the clutch.

This is the same in my case. It disengages the moment I press brake pedal but not if i press clutch. I've noticed that it disengages if I hold clutch for about 8 seconds.

Is this normal bahaviour for cruise control? I was a bit suprised when I tried to lower speed on the motorway with the engine and cruise control engaged again...

 

And second one... Does anyone know how to change number of blinks from 3 to 5. 3 is a bit low for my taste. I know it can be set to five on MKII but MKIII?

 

Best regards

 

It was me that mentioned it in the "problems" thread.  I had a 2.0D Elegance on demo for a weekend and took it for a long Motorway drive early on the saturday morning.

 

On the motorway I spotted a problem a good way off, dipped the clutch, freewheeled for a bit, selected the next gear down and released the clutch.  The car surged forward to get back up to cruising speed.  When talking to Skoda UK after the demo (they wanted feedback), I mentioned this to them and stated I thought it was dangerous.  The person on the other end of the line agreed.

 

As for using the brake to disengage the cruise control; I would rather not as this tapping of the brakes may cause problems for the drivers behind me; potentially leading them to stamp on their brakes along with the next person and so on until we have the caterpillar effect we see far too often on our roads.

 

 

 

That also happens on my BMW and it allows you to change gear and still keep the cruise active. Not as bad as you may think.

 

It does not do this on my current 2009 320D.

It was me that mentioned it in the "problems" thread. I had a 2.0D Elegance on demo for a weekend and took it for a long Motorway drive early on the saturday morning.

On the motorway I spotted a problem a good way off, dipped the clutch, freewheeled for a bit, selected the next gear down and released the clutch. The car surged forward to get back up to cruising speed. When talking to Skoda UK after the demo (they wanted feedback), I mentioned this to them and stated I thought it was dangerous. The person on the other end of the line agreed.

As for using the brake to disengage the cruise control; I would rather not as this tapping of the brakes may cause problems for the drivers behind me; potentially leading them to stamp on their brakes along with the next person and so on until we have the caterpillar effect we see far too often on our roads.

I agree that the clutch not disengaging cruise control is dangerous. I personally don't use cruise as I never feel in control with the car. This "feature" just enhances my lack of confidence in cruise control.

As someone who uses cruise control a lot on automatic cars, I'm struggling to see how this can be considered dangerous. Obviously autos do not have a clutch pedal so the only ways to disengage it is via the stalk or the brake pedal. I generally use the brake pedal, but will use the stalk instead if I think it will confuse drivers behind me.

 

To me, it's just a different way of working, not dangerous.

..... I'm struggling to see how this can be considered dangerous.

 

 

 

On a manual car, you use the gearbox (as well as the brakes) to regulate the speed of the car.  Dropping to a lower gear is used to gradually reduce speed.

 

I thought it dangerous because I did just that, only to find the car accelerate once I released the clutch pedal

The danger is lifting off the clutch and having the car surge forward.

 

Edit:

 

Beaten to it. I suppose its something you can get used to though.

Shows how out of practice I am with manual cars. I can see how it would be disconcerting if you weren't expecting it.

I personally never brake in order to release CC, in fact, I wish other people didn't either.

 

Anyway, how hard is it to release CC from the stalk on the MK3? I do agree that having the engine surge to regain lost speed on changing down sounds a bit worrying.

I can see how this can be a plus with ACC but with normal CC it should be different in my opinion as well.

 

Is this something that can be turned off via VCDS maybe? (''Disengage cruise control when clutch is pressed...'')

To be honest, I always brake to disengage cruise control. The thing is you can do it by just barely touching the pedal without any actual braking and can be done very quickly. I highly doubt that anyone behind me seeing my brake lights flash for half a second will gave them any ideas that I'm in the processing of slowing down heavily or at all.

 

Plus I disengage the cruise control like that when I'm on the motorway and approaching some other car, which means I'm in the faster car in that situation and I would be slowing down anyway as well as any other cars behind me.

I always always use the switch on the stalk to disengage cc, I don't think it's dangerous once you get used to it.

I highly doubt that anyone behind me seeing my brake lights flash for half a second will gave them any ideas that I'm in the processing of slowing down heavily or at all.

 

You dab for 1/2 a second, car behind you instinctively dabs for a second, car behind him 2 seconds...

I've been on motorways in both countries and let me tell you, we probably have less than 10% of your motorway traffic. There wouldn't be such a chain reaction over here since there are simply not that many cars.

 

I do get your point though.

Fair enough, it's bad practice but not nearly as much of a problem on quiet roads. IF someone does that on the M25 during busy times (which is probably 18 hours of the day), it can set off a chain reaction that is felt 30 miles away down the road

Fair enough, it's bad practice but not nearly as much of a problem on quiet roads. IF someone does that on the M25 during busy times (which is probably 18 hours of the day), it can set off a chain reaction that is felt 30 miles away down the road

 

Which is the point I was trying to make - badly!! :-D

 

TudorM - apoligies, I had assumed you were in the UK.

Have I landed on a different planet? Why would anyone disengage cruise control by dabbing the brake, or dipping the clutch? Number one is likely to cause mayhem in following traffic, number two leads to freewheeling, which is bad for the gearbox.the stalk has a flick to the right function,the top switch, which cancels cruise. You then use the stalk end switch up to reset. How difficult is this? Please be sensible and use the controls as they are meant to be and not stupid, dangerous, or damaging methods!

Ps flick to the right not all the way, before someone comes on to say that switches cruise off altogether!

Have I landed on a different planet? Why would anyone disengage cruise control by dabbing the brake, or dipping the clutch? Number one is likely to cause mayhem in following traffic, number two leads to freewheeling, which is bad for the gearbox.the stalk has a flick to the right function,the top switch, which cancels cruise. You then use the stalk end switch up to reset. How difficult is this? Please be sensible and use the controls as they are meant to be and not stupid, dangerous, or damaging methods!

 

Personally if I'm switching cruise of to slow down I what the idiot in the BMW behind me to know that I'm slowing down, not get a surprise when the car suddenly slows up without warning.