Anyone had this? I was cruising at 50mph in an average speed camera zone (with a 50mph limit) with the 'limiter' set to 50mph. Dual carriageway, road going down to one lane, and suddenly saw a blue light ambulance vehicle running at 80...ish rushing up behind but could not pass me. In order to get out the way in good time I decked the throttle expecting the car to overide the speed limiter (as it says in the handbook), but nothing! Had to switch off the limiter to regain control. Not good. Later, retried the situation on normal roads and still nothing, no overiding of the limiter at any speed or with the gearbox (DSG) in any gear. Limiter works fine in every other respect and I find it very useful. I don't have cruise control on my car.

 

To be clear, the 'kick down' on the auto box works fine when speed limiter is off.

Edited 22 July, 20178 yr by Estate Man
Added information...

Did you push the pedal past the detent near the end of its travel?

 

Works OK on mine (a manual), the dash makes a ping sound and the limiter is disarmed. (Yes, the limiter's great for efficient cruising.)

Edited 22 July, 20178 yr by ettlz

As above ^

I thought mine wasn't working until I did this.

Hi you guys. Yeah I fully kick down with the loud pedal until it hits the deck. But still nothing. The car will drop down a gear or two, if say I'm doing 45mph with the limiter set for 50mph but as soon as I hit 50mph the car stops accelerating and I need to cancel the speed setting or switch it off to continue accelerating. Wondering if this is a software glitch on my motor.

Could be software if the kickdown works on the same detent (it's all CANBUS, isn't it?). If kickdown happens before that it might be the pedal itself not sending the message.

Edited 22 July, 20178 yr by ettlz

Ok, so thanks so much for the input guys. But it's now solved. I'm slightly blushing on this one as I discovered that I wasn't pushing the loud pedal down past the detent, just as you guys were suggesting! Thank you! The issue it seems is that my pedal detent was very very stiff indeed, much stiffer than other 1.2TSI's that i've driven. However, since pushing it down fully for the first time the detent had become much easier to operate. When I experienced the issue I had genuinely thought the pedal was fully down, I felt and heard it hit the deck! I did pushed down quite hard when I was trying to get it to override the speed limiter as I know you have to do that. Out of frustration (I think!) I stepped on it even harder and 'click' it went down further and the car was off like a jack rabbit! Phew. I think it was just the fact it hadn't been engaged before...it now seems as normal as the other cars I have driven.  Lesson here for me is...you go on learning something new everyday!

No need to blush, the detent is yet another thing that should be in the manual but isn't. The converse is I first thought something was wrong with the pedal mechanism until I played with the limiter.

 

VAG user documentation in general leaves a lot to be desired.