New car funny story

[BiG]

Just annoys me. Lane assist is canny dangerous. I’m sure I’ve felt it pull the steering when just painted words on the road…

When I got my new VW the dealership, despite having been trained, were unable, at least initially, to tell me HOW to turn the lane assist off. And it wasn’t in the manual. I eventually discovered the button on the steering wheel that accessed a list of ‘assist’ functions and I turn it off.

But they also thought that I couldn’t turn the bit of the cruise control that, after adjusting speed down to stay within a speed restriction, automatically and immediately adjusted back to the maximum national speed limit once you exited the speed restriction.

I didn’t know what was happening at first. The car was in like 3rd or 4th gear through a 30 mph and I was preparing to adjust or accelerate gradually and… whooosh… I was off! I was still in 3rd gear or something and rapidly approaching 60mph. But the dealership said it was an element of the cruise control and couldn’t be switched off. I thought that meant ‘I won’t be using cruise control then’, which pissed me off because I like it for safety and economy reasons.

But then a bloke in the service department found out how to do It and showed me how to turn that element of cruise control off. Actually it’s switched ON in my loan car whilst they fix all my OTHER software issues (yeah right) in my own car and I’m now thinking that I quite like it. Now that I know it’s going to happen, it won’t take me by surprise and I can just control it manually. The advantage - at least in the manual car I have on loan - is that the acceleration is smoother when the system does it, rather than me increasing speed by incremental cruise control button pushes. Which is my lazy way of doing it. But in my manual, I’ll need to be mindful of the gear change requirements.

Isn’t this all utterly fascinating. I think I might shoot myself. I’m boring myself to death anyway.

 

[yamar1]

the engines might be, it's the ancillaries that aren't.

Exactly. Seen many starters, batteries go well early on cars with SS. It’s shite.

Aye the headlights that turn when you go around corners. Bit pointless imo

Got them on my ST. An expensive gimmick to fix when they go wrong.

 

[BiG]

I’m 47

 

[safc9450]

Bought a new (not brand new!) car home and it wouldn't start.
Turns out the clutch had to be depressed to start it.

Did you show it one of our matches ? Should have been well depressed after that !

 

[League Wan]

Exactly. Seen many starters, batteries go well early on cars with SS. It’s shite.

Got them on my ST. An expensive gimmick to fix when they go wrong.

I bet, mine was a company car but when one of the DLR went it needed a whole new headlight unit. My last car I owned the DLR was a bulb for a couple of quid

 

[Latka Gravas]

well my son thought it was hilarious, so i get my new car delivered yesterday and im very happy with it audi a3 sline aye i know another fcking audi driver.. so im out for a drive around loveing it and i come to temp traffic lights at the lodge in seaham and the car just stalls and im in the middle of the queue.. im thinking fcking hell panicking like mad.. so im waving peolple past and and im turning the key like mad but nowt happening release the brake to try and roll on the kirb.. and it starts.. stop start mode.. im 57 and had enough ford escorts and cortinas to know that when a car cuts put they usualy dont start again so imediatly assumed the car was knackered.. the stop start option is now turned off

I feel your pain, similar happened to me about 12 years ago using a company car (Audi), centre of Newcastle where Grey St meets Dean St, quite flustered and embarrassed sitting in traffic not knowing wtf was wrong with the car.
My van has this feature but I turn it off.

 

[VXi]

I've had my fiesta about 5 years. Last week I crossed a roundabout when a car from the left pulled in front of me. I went to hit the brake as in "OH MY GOD!!!" and the car braked before I could touch the pedal. "City Assist ' flashed on the dash. I didn't even know it had such a feature. Amazing feature.

 

[yamar1]

I bet, mine was a company car but when one of the DLR went it needed a whole new headlight unit. My last car I owned the DLR was a bulb for a couple of quid

Dealers won’t even attempt to repair them.

I’ve already had to repair the drivers side wiring on mine as they snap where the wires go to the servos inside the light. Common fault on them, £1000 for a new light. sorted it by repairing them luckily.

I've had my fiesta about 5 years. Last week I crossed a roundabout when a car from the left pulled in front of me. I went to hit the brake as in "OH MY GOD!!!" and the car braked before I could touch the pedal. "City Assist ' flashed on the dash. I didn't even know it had such a feature. Amazing feature.

Clever stuff isn’t it.

 

[Wilfy]

One of my pet hates in my 22 reg VWmk8 is that ALL the dashboard systems are operated via touchscreen. Which is right fuck on when you’re attempting to alter the heating or switch on, off, over, up or down…or type a destination in the satnav (as a passenger), whilst the vehicle is in motion. Like I say it’s not very user friendly.

So I’ve got a 2024 TRoc as a loan car while they reload the software. Guess what? It has knobs and dials fir turning things on and off turning volume up, switching apps etc. Maybe they realised that a knob on a dashboard that is actually easier to control is a good idea?

Somebody said online : “VW should have understood that being a good engineering company doesn’t make you a good software engineering company”.

They must have really pissed off thousands of customers all over the world.

Can you not talk to it to change temperature etc?

 

[Nig]

They do. They migrated from your head

Happy to take your advice and weigh it up against other advice. I pick one from the list. Stop-start engines and engine idling – the law and common myths revealed | RAC Drive.

I will. It will be the first thing I will recall after recalling that I won’t have that car long enough to give a rats ass

Well your not bothered as you won't keep your car long enough to witness mechanical failure,
Keep your stop start on

You've read it's great and it suits you

 

[BiG]

Can you not talk to it to change temperature etc?

That’s another thing. I’ve not set the voice command thing up. With all the unpredictable alerts and software issues I’ve already got I’m just a tad concerned that if I tell the car to ‘call Mam’ it might assassinate the pope.