Hi All.

New guy here.

 

I specifically bought the Kamiq because the alternatives at the same price point either did not have ACC or did not have good reviews of their ACC.

My intention was to use it in long drives, and be able to relax a bit from the constant pedal switching, however, during my initial testing I found that

 

1) It doesn't seem to slow down during the curves, so I need to engage the brake, disengaging the ACC

2) When there is no car visible, and suddenly there is a car stopped at the lights, it just keeps going, and I need to hit the brakes.

 

Is this normal behaviour of the Kamiq? Skodas in general, or for that matter ACC?

 

saying that, when there is a car in front, and the road is straight it doesn't seem to have problems, but the above, seem to limit the use a fair bit

PS: I tried both Travel assist, and ACC modes, same thing

 

thanks a lot

First question. Is the car manual or DSG? There are some things that you ought to be able to do with DSG that you can't on a manual.

1 hour ago, Routemaster1461 said:

First question. Is the car manual or DSG? There are some things that you ought to be able to do with DSG that you can't on a manual.

I Should have mentioned this.

It's a DSG

WT... seems I had an account earlier.. I'm the OP. Sorry for the confusion

ACC won’t slow the car through curves or any other road layout which needs a reduction in speed, eg a blind crest. It responds only to other vehicles in front which the radar/camera detects. Not sure what you mean re a car at the lights. The ACC with DSG will actually slow to a stop behind a stationary car and then accelerate back to set speed once it moves off. I love the ACC, it makes longer drives so relaxing. The only slight criticism I have is that it is a trifle slow to respond in some cases, eg when it slows the car as it approaches a slower car in front and when I indicate to overtake there is a slight hesitation to kick in. But this is a minor irritation. 

1 minute ago, marineboy said:

ACC won’t slow the car through curves or any other road layout which needs a reduction in speed, eg a blind crest. It responds only to other vehicles in front which the radar/camera detects. Not sure what you mean re a car at the lights. The ACC with DSG will actually slow to a stop behind a stationary car and then accelerate back to set speed once it moves off. I love the ACC, it makes longer drives so relaxing. The only slight criticism I have is that it is a trifle slow to respond in some cases, eg when it slows the car as it approaches a slower car in front and when I indicate to overtake there is a slight hesitation to kick in. But this is a minor irritation. 

 

This is not necessarily true, and may vary depending on age and model of car. When I got my Karoq and I first used ACC, the car was aware of speed limits and bends. So if I set the cruise at a certain speed, it would maintan that speed until it came to another limit. It would then reset to that limit, either up or down. This resulted in some pretty uncomfortable braking if going down from 60 to 30. When i came to bends the car 'knew' how fast to go, slowed down, again often uncomfortably, then sped up again after. If you have a DGS car, the car should slow down t a stop in heavy traffic and restart itself when traffic moves off again. I don't think it understands traffic lights though!! I found the whole system to be far too much for me so I reset it to be more like a standard cruise as I certainly didn't always want to be driving at the limit or for me or my passengers to suffer from the poor travelling experience I think it provides.

Do the car was aware of the bend but slowed down too abruptly? I can't believe there's no documentation on how the ACC is supposed to behave

Fair point, I was aware of makes like Audi, MB etc which linked ACC to the sat nav and traffic sign recognition and adjusted the speed accordingly but I didn’t know that any Skodas had this capability. 

1 hour ago, Routemaster1461 said:

 

This is not necessarily true, and may vary depending on age and model of car. When I got my Karoq and I first used ACC, the car was aware of speed limits and bends. So if I set the cruise at a certain speed, it would maintan that speed until it came to another limit. It would then reset to that limit, either up or down. This resulted in some pretty uncomfortable braking if going down from 60 to 30. When i came to bends the car 'knew' how fast to go, slowed down, again often uncomfortably, then sped up again after. If you have a DGS car, the car should slow down t a stop in heavy traffic and restart itself when traffic moves off again. I don't think it understands traffic lights though!! I found the whole system to be far too much for me so I reset it to be more like a standard cruise as I certainly didn't always want to be driving at the limit or for me or my passengers to suffer from the poor travelling experience I think it provides.

Fair point, I was aware of makes like Audi, MB etc which linked ACC to the sat nav and traffic sign recognition and adjusted the speed accordingly but I didn’t know that any Skodas had this capability. 

Apparently there is a Skoda "predictive adaptive cruise control" that does the traffic sign recognition and speed control linked to GPS. I wonder whether a code might enable that feature, I believe all the hardware should be there.

PACC in Kamiq? Forget about it. Even if you have Columbus and traffic sign recognition then you still need auto-hold (instead of manual hand brake), steering wheel with traffic jam assist button (capacitive steering wheel) and probably side assist. And at the end a SWAP code.