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.

On 04/12/2024 at 21:22, OccyVRS 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.

Can you tell us what was involved in the coding you did.

26 minutes ago, 26DIPP said:

Can you tell us what was involved in the coding you did.

@Cairus

It was a while ago. I remember we did stuff with the front camera module, instrument cluster and infotainment.

What's this about? Disabling pACC? Disabling TSR?

My question was about activating ACC on a Kamiq with Front Assist and a 3Q0 A5 camera, where TSR is already on board.

Swap prodection

You have to Patch ACC

3 hours ago, 26DIPP said:

My question was about activating ACC on a Kamiq with Front Assist and a 3Q0 A5 camera, where TSR is already on board.

Oh I thought you were on about enabling TSR, which is a bit more straightforward. You’ll need the ACC controls too.

I have normal CC on my Kamiq and we have ACC on my wife's Karoq. You can keep ACC, wish we could return it to just CC!

@sussamb

is possible

Virtual Cockpit? Which HW and SW Number have unit 13?

Edited Saturday at 09:203 days by Cairus

Hi,

I saw the car last night and scanned it. Very different from my SIII.

Anyway it has the virtual dashboard and the SW is 5175 and HW is 502.

I looked through other controllers and in many the ACC was set as "coded", just not activated.

4 hours ago, sussamb said:

I have normal CC on my Kamiq and we have ACC on my wife's Karoq. You can keep ACC, wish we could return it to just CC!

You can activate CC in addition to ACC.

12 minutes ago, 26DIPP said:

Hi,

I saw the car last night and scanned it. Very different from my SIII.

Anyway it has the virtual dashboard and the SW is 5175 and HW is 502.

I looked through other controllers and in many the ACC was set as "coded", just not activated.

Once again, the ACC function is protected by a SwaP key. If you didn't have factory-installed ACC, this key is missing. Without the key, there is no active ACC.

20 minutes ago, 26DIPP said:

You can activate CC in addition to ACC.

not always

19 hours ago, 26DIPP said:

You can activate CC in addition to ACC.

How? I've no wish to mess about with coding.

Es ist aber eine Codierung.

Steuergerät 13

Byte 24

Bit 04

Steuergerät 17

Anpassung

Anzeigen Längsregelkoordinator

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It is a coding setting.

Control Unit 13

Byte 24

Bit 04

Control Unit 17

Adaptation

Display Longitudinal Control Coordinator

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15 hours ago, sussamb said:

How? I've no wish to mess about with coding.

Then you can’t active ACC.