I'm looking at a 2020 Kamiq SEL as a second car, which has the fairly rare 'adaptive' cruise control (not 'predictive adaptive'). I've had mixed experiences with ACC on two Citroens. My recent C5 has it, and it works great and very smoothly so long as you remember that all it really does is keep you on station with the car in front and stop you running into it. Before that had an older Berlingo. That had ACC that it worked, but that system braked fairly hard and later than I'd have liked, then accelerated fairly hard. Does anyone know what the Kamiq system from 2020 etc models is like please? I ask 'cos I use ACC a lot on my Citroen, and I'd like to know if the Skoda system is good. Thanks, Max

The ACC in my 2020 Octavia is brilliant. The only complaint I have is that, if following a car that is turning (off), my car still 'sees' it for another few seconds. I've had no issues with it kicking it by itself in the nine months I've had the car. On journeys up North, I'll hit the slip road down here and not touch the pedals for a few hundred miles. I keep mine in 'comfort' ACC mode and it's not jerky at all. It can be a bit eager in any other mode though.

 

Don't bother with TSR - it's useless and, when paired with ACC, dangerous.

 

 

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41 minutes ago, Occy245 said:

Don't bother with TSR - it's useless and, when paired with ACC, dangerous.

 

I have 'display only' TSR on the Citroen, and judging by the number of mistakes it makes, display only is more than enough, in fact I've switched it off.

I activated mine using a friends VCDS, as I imagined having the duo of TSR and ACC would be life changing!

 

If it saw the signs correctly then it would be brilliant - however, it saw the 20mph limit at Cobham services, whilst I was in the middle lane doing 70.

 

Not good.

1 hour ago, Occy245 said:

I imagined having the duo of TSR and ACC would be life changing!

 

If it saw the signs correctly then it would be brilliant - however, it saw the 20mph limit at Cobham services, whilst I was in the middle lane doing 70.

I could see that being life-changing, yes.  

My 2022 model doesn’t have TSR but the ACC is brilliant and totally reliable. You can tweak the distance you want to follow the car in front and the degree of acceleration after it brakes and comes back up to the set speed. And with the DSG box, its ability to come to a stop and then set off again when the car in front moves without touching the pedals is truly amazing. I don’t actually use it in this way but it’s a good party trick.  

11 hours ago, Occy245 said:

I activated mine using a friends VCDS, as I imagined having the duo of TSR and ACC would be life changing!

 

If it saw the signs correctly then it would be brilliant - however, it saw the 20mph limit at Cobham services, whilst I was in the middle lane doing 70.

 

Not good.

Yes, that's the kind of thing I want to avoid. My Citroen often displays the 20mph limit on side roads as we pass them in 30-50 limits. The DSG/ACC stop/start thing is really useful on queuing A roads, like when they all slow down to admire Stonehenge :)

3 hours ago, marineboy said:

My 2022 model doesn’t have TSR but the ACC is brilliant and totally reliable. You can tweak the distance you want to follow the car in front and the degree of acceleration after it brakes and comes back up to the set speed. And with the DSG box, its ability to come to a stop and then set off again when the car in front moves without touching the pedals is truly amazing. I don’t actually use it in this way but it’s a good party trick.  

 

It took me a few weeks to learn to trust it, but I pretty much completely trust it now in stop start traffic. I still cover the brake at very slow speeds, but it hasn't let me down yet!

 

Maybe it's my age (I'm 21) - my 58 year old dad had a freak when he tried it.

 

The only issue I can see with it is when the road in front is directly clear, and a car pulls out in the distance. My car will keep accelerating, then see the car, and brake harder than it needed to if it hadn't accelerated. Then again, I suppose it's not a Tesla!

 

Brilliant system for long journeys.