3.0 D4 CC special feature - go faster with go slower button

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Originally Posted by Graeme

There's plenty of grunt to accelerate up the steepest of hills so loosing speed is not due to that. Pressing the speed increase button a couple of times does the trick, but then have to decrease at the top.

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in a 3.0 TDV6 maybe...... :D

The point I was trying to make is it is easier to just put your foot on the throttle, get over the hill, and take it off again.... speed maintained..... on over run, tap the brake pedal, let is slow and when you get to the bottom of the hill push resume speed maintained...... uphill that is 1 action vs 6 (3 pushes of plus and 3 pushes of minus) on the down hill it is 2 vs 6...... with the D3/D4s we all become so focussed on using driver aids (even on road it would seem) we forget that there is a very simple manual solution.......

I have said this before elsewhere, we all have extremely high expectations of our D3s and even more so of the D4s, that we judge them harshly...... we also tend to compare them to cars..... we forget that these are 3 ton offroaders, not just an SUV, but a seriously competent offroader that perform incredibly on road...... At the end of the day there are areas where it will not be perfect, but remember it is a compromise……..

that makes it 4 cents I guess :)

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Originally Posted by DiscoSaffa

In situations like over taking (or the one you mention AnD3rew) I reckon it is a far better bet to just hit the brake pedal or plant your right foot and do things manually...... rather than trying to find one of 4 tiny buttons on the steering wheel that don't come as intuitively to hand as the brake or accelerator pedal does to foot.....

Just my two cents worth :)

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Thats the second argument I had with the missus:twisted:

Overall I am ok with the CC, I use it all the time, and once you get to know how it behaves you just compensate for it. I have used better ones though.

I do find that it is more of a pain than its worth in very up and down country and I will usually just turn it off if I get to a section like that.

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Originally Posted by AnD3rew

Thats the second argument I had with the missus:twisted:

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That sounds so very familiar...... Does anyone else find they become a different sort of driver in their D3 or D4 for that matter? :twisted: :burnrubber:

I don't see what the complaint is really about...

Today I tried out the same instance on my manual Subaru and it works the same - when increasing speed (either downhill or by pressing the accelerator) and holding the "decrease speed / set" button, the current speed at the time is then what cruise control is set to.

Think of the "decrease speed" as also a "set" button and you will understand why the car does this.

If you want to slow the car down, use the foot brake. The decrease speed is really to decrease the cruise speed on a flat road, isn't it?

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Originally Posted by eddomak

The decrease speed is really to decrease the cruise speed on a flat road, isn't it?

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No. It is to decrease the nominated cruise setspeed in the same way the increase button increases the nominated setspeed in 2kph increments regardless of the current speed. Try hitting resume for 100 when only doing 60 then immediately hold the increase button and watch the setspeed increase.

Hi People,
I don't seem to have the same problems that others have mentioned, I find that my D3 overruns more with the camper trailer on the back, which is a statement you would expect, but normally I don't find the over run any more than my Range Rover P38. The CC works a bit harder and has "given up" on steeper gradients with the camper on the back but apart from that I find it to be OK, no worse than any other vehicle I've driven.
As mentioned earlier the weight / mass and inertia do play a bit part in this equation, I've got a bull bar dual wheel carrier and a LR tank to add in as well.