Car with speed limiter but no cruise control
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This is a new one for me. Travelling on business tomorrow, I arrived home this evening to find a brand new Skoda Fabia unceremoniously dumped on my neighbour's drive. Obviously the first thing I did was go and move it (he didn't mind) but I thought I'd run round the block in it quickly. Much better to set up and get somewhat familiarised to the car when I'm awake rather than trying to adjust things in a blind panic at 5:30am.
What struck me as odd as soon as I got in it, was that there was the traditional VW/Audi Group-style cruise control controls on the indicator stalk, yet there was no cruise control. I had the speed limiter function, but no cruise. Struck me as very odd, I can't imagine why you'd want to split the two apart? On modern drive-by-wire cars it's just electronics anyway. Call me cynical, but since the Skoda I've got is bottom of the range base-spec, I see cruise control deletion as simply being something removed in order to make you pay to get it back.
On the same vein, it's also been many, many years since I've seen a car with voice control buttons (and prompts on the screen), yet no actual voice control feature. I've never disliked Skodas but this new one seems to have had quite a bizarre selection of functions removed. The lack of cruise will be highly annoying for my motorway trip tomorrow, although I am considering simply setting the limiter to 70mph and drive all the way to my destination on WOT. Might take some getting used to
Slightly related, it does amuse me how different hire cars can be in the same group. I travel a lot with work and always get given a hire car, last week I had a diesel Passat saloon with radar-guided cruise control and a couple of other decent gizmos, and this week I'm in a boggo spec petrol Fabia estate with no cruise control but a speed limiter! Last month I had a Peugeot 308 hatchback (surprisingly decent), and before that a Vauxhall Mokka (I actually really liked the Mokka). The company gets charged the same price no matter what car turns up, so I can only assume we're just given whatever's left in the compound when we ask for a vehicle.
As such, I'm away this Sunday for two weeks in a hire car. Please can everybody hiring a car in SW London refuse to take a Mustang so that there are plenty of them left and I get one for a fortnight?
ETA - here's the stalk in question as I assume someone will want to see if I'm just being a plum. I've already done my homework!
What struck me as odd as soon as I got in it, was that there was the traditional VW/Audi Group-style cruise control controls on the indicator stalk, yet there was no cruise control. I had the speed limiter function, but no cruise. Struck me as very odd, I can't imagine why you'd want to split the two apart? On modern drive-by-wire cars it's just electronics anyway. Call me cynical, but since the Skoda I've got is bottom of the range base-spec, I see cruise control deletion as simply being something removed in order to make you pay to get it back.
On the same vein, it's also been many, many years since I've seen a car with voice control buttons (and prompts on the screen), yet no actual voice control feature. I've never disliked Skodas but this new one seems to have had quite a bizarre selection of functions removed. The lack of cruise will be highly annoying for my motorway trip tomorrow, although I am considering simply setting the limiter to 70mph and drive all the way to my destination on WOT. Might take some getting used to
Slightly related, it does amuse me how different hire cars can be in the same group. I travel a lot with work and always get given a hire car, last week I had a diesel Passat saloon with radar-guided cruise control and a couple of other decent gizmos, and this week I'm in a boggo spec petrol Fabia estate with no cruise control but a speed limiter! Last month I had a Peugeot 308 hatchback (surprisingly decent), and before that a Vauxhall Mokka (I actually really liked the Mokka). The company gets charged the same price no matter what car turns up, so I can only assume we're just given whatever's left in the compound when we ask for a vehicle.
As such, I'm away this Sunday for two weeks in a hire car. Please can everybody hiring a car in SW London refuse to take a Mustang so that there are plenty of them left and I get one for a fortnight?
ETA - here's the stalk in question as I assume someone will want to see if I'm just being a plum. I've already done my homework!
Edited by sebhaque on Tuesday 28th June 23:33
DaveH23 said:
Flick the switch on top to turn it on then use the + to set cruise. The -Set will set the limit.
Once the cruise is set the + and - will work as normal.
I've already tried Dave, but thanks for the suggestion. Take a look here (post #22 onwards):Once the cruise is set the + and - will work as normal.
http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/352405-cruise...
I've had a couple of similar stalks on VAG cars and there's always been a button or toggle switch to select cruise or limiter - for some reason on this car they've decided to do away with it.
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