How To Use Volkswagen Adaptive Cruise Control

[@CarDietrich]

If this video helped you, please consider subscribing to my KZbin channel! It would help me out, it's free to you, and in all likelihood KZbin will never even recommend any more of videos to you lol

[@crimsonmika]

Thank you very much. The VW handbook is too ambiguous. I thought the RES button meant Reset 👍🏼

[@johncalvin9703]

Too ambiguous, thought it was me, not alone then👍

[@terryoneill377]

I had no idea how ACC would be useful. The demo video while driving was much more helpful than the stationary demo videos. Great job!

[@CarDietrich]

Glad you liked it!

[@chrisallen9009]

Can you adjust speed to 5km/hr increments on ACC,rather than the standard default 10km/hr?

[@johncalvin9703]

Handbook is not Handy at all, thanks for this video👍

[@ex-trucker1674]

bought me VW T-Cross , and this video has been very helpful to me. thank you

[@CarDietrich]

Glad it helped

[@Mbalings]

I've had the Tiguan since 2018 and there's still functions of the ACC that i wasn't aware of. Thank you so much

[@cherylphillips2432]

Thanks so much really needed to see this!

[@aryanpers7726]

Thank you for your beautiful explaining about how to use the cruise control! You show it very well sir! God protect you for us!😁 You are like an angel comes to our homes and help us with this complicate system! I bought a VW Passat week ago and I couldn't find someone to help me understand to how should I use all the things and unfortunately the book of this car is in German language which unfortunately I don't understand it very well!🤷 Please continue and share your information with us! ❤🙏👏👏👏

[@ellamitchell1270]

The instructions manual is too long-winded in that it cross-refers frequently which loses the thread of concentration on the subject matter because of the multitude of cross-referencing - just can't keep up!!!

[@aryanpers7726]

@@ellamitchell1270 you are right and it is not easy to understand it! Thnx for your reaction! 🙏

[@alancleghorn7054]

Thanks for the video. I have a 2022 T-Roc (UK) and the only times I have tried the ACC I found it B.....Dangerous. The theory is good and it is fitted to so many of the VW range is surely cant be all that bad. One thing you didn't manage to cover in your video however was its use on the open road in particular the overtaking situation. Mine simply locks on to the vehicle in front, the one you are about to overtake and slows you down to its speed irrespective of you position on the road. You need to actively accelerate past it which I don't think is the manufacturers concept. There doesn't seem to be a conventional cruise control option on the UK model either. Anyway food for thought I will go back and have a look at my setting. Thanks again

[@CarDietrich]

With pretty much every adaptive cruise control system I’ve used, it allows you to accelerate passed the pre-set speed to pass with the throttle pedal, and then drops back down to the pre-set speed when you take your foot off the gas. That’s par for the course, and IMO the safer way to overtake. The ACC systems accelerate too slowly for overtaking on a two lane road

[@patrickfarrell4751]

Completely agree...used it last night for the 1st time and the bloody thing just has a mind of its own, literally slamming the brakes on when it 'saw' a sign saying 40 which didn't exist Cruise control is great but this version...NO THANKS VW!

[@SmigGames]

You're not supposed to rely on ACC to overtake, unless it's two lanes going in the same direction, of course, but even then, it stops you from overtaking on the side where you shouldn't (left in the UK, right in EU). My 2020 Leon keeps track of vehicles on my left (EU) and prevents me from speeding past them. Not sure if that's what threw you off there.

[@SmigGames]

@@patrickfarrell4751The sign issue may be very circumstantial to that spot, I'm not sure, but you might be able to disable the ACC adjusting to the signs. My 2020 Leon has that option somewhere under the ACC options. I actually prefer to have it disabled because I have the reverse issue where it doesn't see some speed limit signs, perhaps because they're out of the camera angle or something, so I prefer the predictability of setting the speeds myself.

[@patrickfarrell4751]

@@SmigGames Thanks, I will look i nto it There actually wasn't a sign it was a national speed limit with traffic doing that I wondered if it is possibly linked to the navigation as well...there were roadworks along the stretch but not in the bit I was on...maybe it had some info stored that had not been updated

[@fubar12345]

The main button should just have ACC written on it - would be more intuitive. Great vid, thanks.

[@liraql]

Thank you my man, wonderful and useful video.

[@CarDietrich]

Glad it was helpful!

[@alanhodgkinson1717]

Well explained thank you,this system had me baffled 🤦😄

[@truthseeker9988]

👍Thanks. Good point motorcycles.👍

[@geoffmarriott4387]

I have a Passat with ACC and to increase or decrease the set speed the SET and RES buttons increase and decrease the speed by a single amount and the + and - buttons by a factor of 10

[@chrisallen9009]

Can you set by 5?

[@geoffmarriott4387]

Not that I have found only by 1 or 10

[@rouder9237]

Hello and thank you for the video! My question is: Will the car stop on a stop sign (if the car has the option to read road signs)?

[@CarDietrich]

No, the current VW systems do not react to road signs. They just read them and tell you what the speed limit is where you are

[@teeshawynter3233]

Thank you for this info x

[@CarDietrich]

Thank you for watching 🙂

[@nullpointer242]

Thanks for the video.. I have a 2024 T-Cross When I go to the menu I only see 1) Lane Assist, 2) Speed warning 3) Front Assist.. but no ACC

[@CarDietrich]

It is possible your vehicle is not equipped with the Adaptive Cruise, unfortunately I am not familiar with the T-Cross because they don’t sell that one where I am in the US

[@nullpointer242]

@@CarDietrich true, thanks

[@jamesalbo7306]

Might sound stupid but how does this work with manual cars? I’m assuming you have to change gears when it slows itself down and accelerates on it its own ? But when you put your foot on the clutch does it turn itself off or only when you press the break?

[@CarDietrich]

The only car with a stick shift I have experience with such a system in is my own 2023 Acura Integra A-Spec Tech. That car won’t bring itself to a complete stop, it will only slow down to 20 mph and then disengage the Adaptive Cruise and prompt the driver to take over. You can shift gears while Adaptive Cruise is engaged, but technically you don’t have to. The way that car is geared it will for from 20 MPH to 90 MPH (the maximum speed you can set the adaptive cruise for) in sixth gear.

[@joshuahall6536]

I've seen 2008 audi where it re-accelerates after changing gear in cruise control

[@testcitsl1468]

From my experience in manual troc, you must change gears yourself... just legs away from accelerator ... if you break acc turns off... i all not sure if it is same with other cars though..

[@lucyk310]

Thank you for this. Is the shortest following distance the one where the bar is towards the back of the vehicle when locked on? I recently used ACC while traveling on the freeway and seemed to be slowing down to about 50-60 while it was set to 70 soon as it saw a vehicle then I had a few angry people up my backside bc I wasn't going fast enough.

[@CarDietrich]

Look at 5:57 that is how to have the shortest distance set

[@udit2026]

Apply brake manually when the car in front is stationary at traffic lights

[@Concern_Citizen]

Correct, ACC does Not work when cars in front of you are stationary.

[@toms5996]

Perhaps if VW group would call this 'Autopilot' ala Tesla they would make a lot of money for a month with vaporwear for investors in the know 🤣 Sorry, I know this is a low blow but Tesla is just so funny. I myself will buy a new VW EV this year and parents the new Nissan EV. Both companies have solid products and functionality that works. Also - nice video that shows how this function actually works.

[@CarDietrich]

Yeah well, ask them about their "Clean Diesel" engines. VW is certainly not above pulling a fast one.

[@toms5996]

@@CarDietrich VW doing that was such a disgrace. What were they thinking since there wasn't really even need for that.

[@CarDietrich]

To quote Frank Lopez from Scarface, "Don't get high on your own supply." The actual answer is the environment that Ferdinand Piech created when he was at the helm of that company was one of SUCCESS AT ANY COST. I call the years he was in charge Volkswagen's "Wehrmacht" years. I'd like to make a video about all those cars (Phaeton, Touareg V10 TDI, Passat W8, Veyron) someday. But its a big project.

[@toms5996]

@@CarDietrich Interesting. I haven't really dwelled on the inner workings of VW during those years. I'm glad though that the record braking fines and the changes within the company seems to have put VW in a very right track. From a European perspective I know that VW Group makes excellent cars and the 'clean diesel emission hoaxl' to me seems like an attempt to gain marketshare in the US during the 90s/2010s.

[@CarDietrich]

Well, from a US perspective they put the final nail in the coffin of diesel cars here, which makes me sad. I actually bought a 2013 Jetta TDI Wagon in 2018 after it had been fixed. It was a great car, drove fantastic and it was very practical but the TDI fix did hurt fuel economy. Sold it to Carvana in the Summer of 2021 for stupid money and then they sold it for even more lol

[@HK83IE]

❤ i know what you mean. I also 9:20 hate hitting motorcycles. It makes such a mess. You gotta have your car detailed …

[@zaydal-rubeyi6340]

How does it deal with brake checkers?

[@CarDietrich]

Pretty well, but it’s always your responsibility as a driver to pay attention and be ready to intervene if, for example, somebody slams on their brakes in front of you and the car doesn’t react fast enough to it.

[@phas3rrr]

Better than human i guess. It does come with AEB?

[@clubroot3383]

Modern cars are over complicated, which feeds into consumer wants. I miss my 2009 Ford Focus, I didn’t need to think, just enjoyed driving it.

[@mudpuppy8740]

This thing auto sensing shit that doesn’t exist and keeps randomly smashing the breaks in the middle of driving on any curved road. Fucking insanely dangerous

[@faroukmejdoub7724]

how do you jump to speed mlimiter quickly?

[@CarDietrich]

I don’t understand your question

[@bati19]

I dont truth it in the city roads only on motorway or freeway

[@AgentOffice]

My new version steers 2022

[@neo5973]

Is there a speed limiter or not in this car? 😂

[@flexinblack]

Clutch

[@philipsmeets5660]

The adaptive cc on vw tiguan is beyond bad. I hate the car its that bad.

[@abitofeverything590]

Please fuel.your car poor thing is hungry

[@adeolasolomon-rn3hi]

That's not d point.

[@КајмакамЕфенди]

ACC is just a bullshit...regular CC is simply great.