I read somewhere that the trip computer has a speed limiter . Is this correct. What does it do if you go over the set limit?

It goes 'boing'

IIRC its only on Maxidot

It goes 'boing'

IIRC its only on Maxidot

:rofl:

Reminds me of a family story about my grandfather.

He bought a Triumph Herald in the early 60's. When he got it home he slammed the door and the roof went 'boing'. He took it back to the dealer and got his money back!

Replaced it with a Sunbeam Rapier Mk.3 the one with the rounded boot lid and US style tail-fins. Great car - wish I had it now.

Alan

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Sunbeam Rapier's were great road and rally cars.

I've had two Sunbeam Alpines which were fantastic.

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When I had a Golf GT for a month, this had the speed limiter thingy.

You press a button on the stalk at the speed you want, then it goes 'boing' if your speed goes over.

A mate has a Peugeot, and you set the speed (using the cruise control buttons) you want via the display in the dash, and it won't let you go faster (except if you absolutely floor the accelerator, in which point it will let you go over the limit).

The speed limiter function is cr@p. I used it once and once only.

It's not really a limiter either, just an annoyance.

Besides, you can't even hear it at motorway speeds.

The speed limiter function is cr@p. I used it once and once only.

It's not really a limiter either, just an annoyance.

Besides, you can't even hear it at motorway speeds.

When I lived in the UAE, all cars had this "reminder" as a standard fit and it would ding (or boing, depending on the car) incessantly when you passed 120 kph. My solution was to drive faster (increase general background noise) and turn the stereo up, and drown the thing out.

Our Citroen C3 (long gone now) had the speed advisor function. Got fed up with it!

I have used mine twice and at higher speeds you can not here the "boing". I have also noticed this

1. set the limiter at 70mph

2. set the cruise control at 70mph (according to the needle on speedo)

3. use the decrease speed button on cruise stick to reduce speed by 1mph - speedo needle reads below 70mph

I can press the button at least 3 times (so in theory) the speed should be 67mph and the maxidot still display "maximum speed exceeded".

and it gets worse the faster you go. I am sure therefore that the speed fed to update the display is obtained from a different place to that of the speedo needle ?

Might be fed from the true speed data and not what the speedo says, you can find it by poking around in the 2Zone unit and the climatronic on the Mk.1's.

Either way, the speed warning is still crap :P

Either way, the speed warning is still crap :P

Agreed, I would rather it be like that on the Mercedes C Class where it actually stops you from exceeding the speed.

If it did that then it might be of some use.

I tried it again the other day, still crap

Something else to play with when board on the M25 !

How close can you get to the set speed before it goes "BONG!"

Hours of fun

Either that or fit a telly in the car.

So a speed limiter tells you what speed you are doing but doesn't stop you from exceeding it? We all have one of those, on the dash, the big dial next to the rev counter.

Ah, don't forget it also goes "boing!" when you exceed the speed.

Why in the world doesn't it function like Mercedes one? Mercs also have a "winter tyre" setting that limits the car's top speed to 180 km/h in the same way. And in both cases if you get the need for speed, just floor the loud pedal and the limiter is bypassed.

Mercs have some good ideas - I heard they were developing a sensor that braked the car if you were too close to the one in front - don't know if it is on sale at all.

Mercs have some good ideas - I heard they were developing a sensor that braked the car if you were too close to the one in front - don't know if it is on sale at all.

The sensor is indeed available in the S class. Also available in the Audi A8.

The S class drives itself bar the steering, we'll all have it in 10 years time.

Imagine for a moment going round a bend and feeding some power in, only for the limiter to cut you off. Hello hedge at the side of the road!

I believe the motorcycle community is up in arms about some such nonsense hat was being proposed for bikes.

Basically, unexpected control inputs are dangerous!!!:thumbdwn:

Maybe I'm being really picky but the speedo isn't brilliantly clear. Driven Renaults with big digital displays which are great and really easy to read.

I know of a Briskodian in Bahrain who drives a fabia vrs

His car came with Saudi ME coding on the car, it didn't produce a ding / boing, just a continuous "flatline" alarm which sounded far too worrying.

So we changed the country coding of the car with vagcom. It doesn't beep any more now

When you guys talk about speed limiter, do you mean the kind you find in Japan or the alarm that goes off when you exceed 120kph? Because if it's the alarm, then it doesn't go 'boing'...that's the sound you usually get in a new Beemer at 120pkh AND 140kph...as far as Skodas are concerned, when I got my car, it din't do that....it went:

'BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP'.........and

...not only that, it was set at about 2kHz, and hence was so perceptionally loud you could hear it OVER the engine at high speeds and over the stereo too.

Had it removed instantly.

It's the annoying one that beeps over the set speed.

It's not a mandatory thing but an optional warning thats set on the MaxiDot display.

When you do exceed the set speed, you get the same "bong" as when the fuel warning or low washer fluid alarms come up.