Audi 'technology' - help please
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I've placed a deposit on an Audi A5 Vorsprung Sportback (pre-facelift) with a view to test driving and driving away (after paying 
) if all being well.
I'm told the Vorsprung has all the bells & whistles with kit but can I for the life of me find anywhere that tells me what is as standard! So far I've trawled the internet (found a brochure for 2018 but no mention of Vorsprung) and even called Audi UK customer services. (Buying from a non-Audi dealer)
As well as knowing what comes as standard or optional, I'm also trying to find out how one specific function works/works together - the speed limited & traffic sign camera.
Does anyone have any experiences of this? Specifically....
Can you easily set the speed limiter to the limited of the road per the camera?
Do you get an audible warning if over the limit?
If using the adaptive cruise, will it reduce your speed to that of the road sign (or variable speed limits on motorways) or can you easily (one button press or so) get the car to reduce speed?
If anyone knowns the answers or has any general tips on what to look out for when I view & drive it, it's greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance and I hope to contribute on here as a VAG car owner soon.
) if all being well.I'm told the Vorsprung has all the bells & whistles with kit but can I for the life of me find anywhere that tells me what is as standard! So far I've trawled the internet (found a brochure for 2018 but no mention of Vorsprung) and even called Audi UK customer services. (Buying from a non-Audi dealer)
As well as knowing what comes as standard or optional, I'm also trying to find out how one specific function works/works together - the speed limited & traffic sign camera.
Does anyone have any experiences of this? Specifically....
Can you easily set the speed limiter to the limited of the road per the camera?
Do you get an audible warning if over the limit?
If using the adaptive cruise, will it reduce your speed to that of the road sign (or variable speed limits on motorways) or can you easily (one button press or so) get the car to reduce speed?
If anyone knowns the answers or has any general tips on what to look out for when I view & drive it, it's greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance and I hope to contribute on here as a VAG car owner soon.
Edited by Adstheman on Monday 26th April 16:17
I don't know about that model but based on the recent VAG cars the limiter and the camera are not linked to the degree you set out.
One car would have a light on the dashboard which would indicate that you have gone over the limit.
If you are driving with adaptive speed control turned on then it would slow down depending on the signs.
Speed limiter prevents you going over the speed - if you go downhill the car will beep to tell you that you other the limit.
One car would have a light on the dashboard which would indicate that you have gone over the limit.
If you are driving with adaptive speed control turned on then it would slow down depending on the signs.
Speed limiter prevents you going over the speed - if you go downhill the car will beep to tell you that you other the limit.
Adaptive cruise with road sign recognition will automatically reduce the set speed at the point you pass by or under the road sign.
Once you've set the speed it will then do the rest, note if you set the speed to say 80 on the motorway it won't adjust down to 70 unless you pass a speed limit road sign or gantry matrix.
Advisory limits (yellow matrix signs) will be ignored.
Cruise only engages once you reached the set speed, if you set cruise to say 70 but you are doing 50 cruise will not be active until you reach 70.
The set speed will also automatically adjust based on the road speed stored in the navigation maps.
You can in the car menu set the speed limit warning to ping at limit, +5mph above or +10mph above. The speed limit displayed in the dash will flash if you're over the warning threshold.
Are you sure its a Vorsprung on a '68 plate that would be right at the very beginning of trim availability, if its a '18 then that would be strange.
The car should have something called the "driver assistance pack - tour" and the parking assistance pack advanced. Check for cameras under the mirrors and lane assist lights on the side of the mirrors. Also check the interior lights are colour and brightness adjustable.
Once you've set the speed it will then do the rest, note if you set the speed to say 80 on the motorway it won't adjust down to 70 unless you pass a speed limit road sign or gantry matrix.
Advisory limits (yellow matrix signs) will be ignored.
Cruise only engages once you reached the set speed, if you set cruise to say 70 but you are doing 50 cruise will not be active until you reach 70.
The set speed will also automatically adjust based on the road speed stored in the navigation maps.
You can in the car menu set the speed limit warning to ping at limit, +5mph above or +10mph above. The speed limit displayed in the dash will flash if you're over the warning threshold.
Are you sure its a Vorsprung on a '68 plate that would be right at the very beginning of trim availability, if its a '18 then that would be strange.
The car should have something called the "driver assistance pack - tour" and the parking assistance pack advanced. Check for cameras under the mirrors and lane assist lights on the side of the mirrors. Also check the interior lights are colour and brightness adjustable.
b0rk said:
Adaptive cruise with road sign recognition will automatically reduce the set speed at the point you pass by or under the road sign.
Hold up, really? Does that happen in a Golf GTI as well? (67 plate) I don't have the camera module for sign recognition, but that sounds useful as a retrofitThank you for your replies, really useful.
Adaptive cruise aside, to set the speed limiter is it simply changed on the stick or more of a 'pre-set' function via the MMI? Is there any link between road-sign recognition and the limiter, e.g. one press and the limiter changes to the speed limit of the road (Peugeot have this)?
https://nd-mediagallery2-public-production.s3.amazonaws.com/796bf66bcf048d7febf180972ba60047/a5_interactive_pricelist_edition_20_0918.pdf]
...so I'm still on the search for one.
Adaptive cruise aside, to set the speed limiter is it simply changed on the stick or more of a 'pre-set' function via the MMI? Is there any link between road-sign recognition and the limiter, e.g. one press and the limiter changes to the speed limit of the road (Peugeot have this)?
b0rk said:
Are you sure its a Vorsprung on a '68 plate that would be right at the very beginning of trim availability, if its a '18 then that would be strange.
The car should have something called the "driver assistance pack - tour" and the parking assistance pack advanced. Check for cameras under the mirrors and lane assist lights on the side of the mirrors. Also check the interior lights are colour and brightness adjustable.
Sorry I wasn't clear, it's a 2019 (68 plate). The reference to 2018 was regarding my search for a good old fashioned brochure so I could check these things. The closest I found was this which doesn't reference Vorsprung:The car should have something called the "driver assistance pack - tour" and the parking assistance pack advanced. Check for cameras under the mirrors and lane assist lights on the side of the mirrors. Also check the interior lights are colour and brightness adjustable.
https://nd-mediagallery2-public-production.s3.amazonaws.com/796bf66bcf048d7febf180972ba60047/a5_interactive_pricelist_edition_20_0918.pdf]
...so I'm still on the search for one.
sxmwht said:
Hold up, really? Does that happen in a Golf GTI as well? (67 plate) I don't have the camera module for sign recognition, but that sounds useful as a retrofit
Haven't tried it in a golf so don't honestly know if adaptive cruise and sign recognition are linked, in Audi speak its "predictive traffic control" which before being lumped into the tour pack from MY19 was a separate charged option code.Adstheman said:
Thank you for your replies, really useful.
Adaptive cruise aside, to set the speed limiter is it simply changed on the stick or more of a 'pre-set' function via the MMI? Is there any link between road-sign recognition and the limiter, e.g. one press and the limiter changes to the speed limit of the road (Peugeot have this)?
The Audi system doesn't have separate limit and cruise modes, in particular there is no speed limiter that prevents you manually overspeeding. Adaptive cruise aside, to set the speed limiter is it simply changed on the stick or more of a 'pre-set' function via the MMI? Is there any link between road-sign recognition and the limiter, e.g. one press and the limiter changes to the speed limit of the road (Peugeot have this)?
Adaptive cruise will see the car maintain the lower of the current traffic speed or set speed, you can press the accelerator and exceed the set speed. The car will slow naturally (but not brake) down to the set speed when you release the accelerator. Autobraking only happens when you do not have the accelerator pressed and there is traffic within your set distance.
In terms of control, press the end of the stick to set at current road speed, move the stick up or down to change the set speed. Then pull the stick to enable cruise.
In MMI you can under drive select preset how the adaptive cruise responds to traffic and under driver assistance you can enable or disable the set speed being remembered after the ingition is switched off, you also can enable or disable predictive control.
Generally the features you'll get on a MY19 A5 are the same as new one apart from the touchscreen, lap timer and traffic light recognition. You could use the current spec to see what should be mostly standard.
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