I recently came across this very useful old thread on driving in France

 

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/452851-travelling-in-france/

 

and one or two people noted how helpful they found ACC to be.  It's just occured to me that if ACC settings are OK for the UK, they would cause problems for 'driving on the Right' Countries, as say in a fast motorway lane, overtaking slower moving traffic, the ACC will be continually trying to make the car put the brakes on - I assume there must be a way of resetting this for driving abroad.  Will peruse the ACC settings menu tomorrow - something else to do as well as all those other things, including turning off the driver alert 'braking' (or do I mean park pilot) + disabling the alarm tilt sensor.

Hi the car adapts, or mine did and ACC worked as you would expect. The problem occurred back in the UK when it thought it was still in France. It sorted itself out after the drive home.

It's switchable in the 'car' screen - drive on the left / drive on the right.

 

I drove down to the Alps earlier this year, no problems with the ACC.

In the same way you have to tell the cars headlights that you're driving on the other side of the road?

 

Sorry for the delay, but thanks for the comments - been away - I interrogated the 'Car' menus today, including ACC, but couldn't see any command about driving on the left/right.  I'll try again tomorrow, now I've properly read Berisford's and silver1011's notes.  Nothing about this in the index of my car handbook.

 

My car, although impressively kitted out, is in the grand scheme of things, still a fairly lowly spec - 1.0 SE DSG Technology - so the conversion may only take place automatically, as in MJ1's case (presumably activated by geosat).  The separate left/right command may not then be available to me, but as I say, I'll check.

I did have to swap lights over on a menu option, I followed a useful post of steps to do I found on this forum. Later today I will dig it out as I printed out steps so I had a simple check list in the car.

 

What I did notice is that back in UK after leaving the ferry at Portsmouth the car forgot I was in uk and overtaking cars on the left forced breaks on. I had to tap accelerator to force the car pass. The following morning it was ok. This was despite me changing lights back to uk roads.

This is a screenshot from our SEL.......however on the Superb forum they say this left - right switching will take place automatically .......I think I'll switch mine over today and see if it switches back on its own.

Edited 4 January, 20206 yr by Berisford

7 hours ago, Berisford said:

This is a screenshot from our SEL.......however on the Superb forum they say this left - right switching will take place automatically .......I think I'll switch mine over today and see if it switches back on its own.

 

 

...and the system does know where you are.....I swapped to 'R-hand traffic' this a,m, and 7 miles later when I checked it had reverted to 'L-hand traffic'.

 

Edited 4 January, 20206 yr by Berisford

Thanks very much for the information MJ1 & Berisford.  Both your cars are SELs, which I see have LED headlamps and which presumably are switcheable to LHD in the lighting settings, whereas with the Halogens on my SE Tech, I have to apply stick on adaptors for travel abroad.  However I do have ACC as standard, which I don't think comes with the SEL by default.

 

I definitely don't have the travel mode option in the Car Menu on my Amundsen as your helpfull photo shows, Berisford, and nothing buried in the Light Settings.  So I'm hoping the car still knows on its own to switch to LHD and back again to RHD, just so ACC works properly.  If not I'll just have to do without ACC when abroad.  I don't think anything else will be affected.