Radar cruise control?

Its a bloody awesome thing alright!! A mate of mine is the sales manager at a local Mercedes Benz dealer and he called me up when the roadshow was in town said come take some stuff for a test drive!! Fist thing i took was the new S550 what a bloody hell gorgeous car and it had that cruise aswell as the system that steers you for 20 secs jeeze its hard to let it do it all but so amazing the tech!! It also takes the car to a complete stop then just tap the accelerator and off it goes again!! I wanted one immediately haha my bank says no $330k is a bit much :(

Those part numbers are mostly for the 2010 model. The parts catalogue is incomplete for ACC for 2011/2012 models, only showing the secondary radar on the RHS along with the link harness and even that's not accessible via the graphical index. The 2011/12 owners handbook states that the radar unit is in the centre (the same position as for the L405 which uses a different radar unit part#) so the part numbers may not be applicable. A current catalogue should be referenced.

LR was really a bit slow to introduce this; in 2012 it was on a VW Golf with the optional drivers' convenience pack (or whatever they called it). Now Skoda (really just a Golf) have it on sub 30k cars - and it is excellent.

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Originally Posted by harlie

LR was really a bit slow to introduce this; in 2012 it was on a VW Golf with the optional drivers' convenience pack (or whatever they called it). Now Skoda (really just a Golf) have it on sub 30k cars - and it is excellent.

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It appears a lot of the higher end cars are lagging behind in so much technology!! Look at every model in the new Holden VF range comes with auto parking system not that many would use it but the new L494 RRS is like a bloody $3k option when every Commodore gets it some things just make me wonder.

yeah Nat, agree. VW introduced Radar cruise control on the Golf 7 in 2012. Self parking was introduced on the Golf 6 in 2009. Ok the VW Golf is not exactly the cheapest hatch available but it's far from an expensive car.

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Originally Posted by harlie

yeah Nat, agree. VW introduced Radar cruise control on the Golf 7 in 2012. Self parking was introduced on the Golf 6 in 2009. Ok the VW Golf is not exactly the cheapest hatch available but it's far from an expensive car.

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Yeah my thoughts exactly some options in the upper models need to be made standard its just silly that less expensive cars have so much stuff standard that the higher ones are charging big $$ for!! Im looking at the new Volvo XC90 brochure and some options are like $100 and $200 for that price why not make the bloody thing standard just seems a bit ridiculous in my eyes haha!!

Must admit, the radar cruise control on the Merc has really opened my eyes to the technology now available on ever-more-cheaply available cars. Just did a 1,000km round trip in the bride's C250 and it really was a relaxing drive, mainly because I didn't have to worry too much about drivers in front not knowing how to stick to a constant speed (even though most of them these days have cruise). The Merc would take care of it, right down to a full stop. And you can infinitely adjust the distance you want between you and the car in front, no matter what speed you're doing.
Being able to voice-enter destinations while on the move is another huge bonus of that Merc Command system. Works brilliantly. Far in advance of the clunky LR infotainment system.
On any future medium-long blacktop trips, I'll be sorely tempted to take the Merc if we're not towing anything or needing to lug a large load/people.
If radar cruise isn't currently standard on the L404/L495, it certainly should be.

(EDIT): Nothing at all beats the L322 for that king of the road feeling though:)

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Originally Posted by GregMilner

Must admit, the radar cruise control on the Merc has really opened my eyes to the technology now available on ever-more-cheaply available cars. Just did a 1,000km round trip in the bride's C250 and it really was a relaxing drive, mainly because I didn't have to worry too much about drivers in front not knowing how to stick to a constant speed (even though most of them these days have cruise). The Merc would take care of it, right down to a full stop. And you can infinitely adjust the distance you want between you and the car in front, no matter what speed you're doing.
Being able to voice-enter destinations while on the move is another huge bonus of that Merc Command system. Works brilliantly. Far in advance of the clunky LR infotainment system.
On any future medium-long blacktop trips, I'll be sorely tempted to take the Merc if we're not towing anything or needing to lug a large load/people.
If radar cruise isn't currently standard on the L404/L495, it certainly should be.

(EDIT): Nothing at all beats the L322 for that king of the road feeling though:)

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They certainly have some great systems in the Merc i do love the look of the new C Class its a beautiful shape really stunning!! Im just loving the new Volvo XC90 look at a few videos on that and you'll see the new infotainment system on that is just something else its really crazy so simple yet so effective!! Very much like an iPad in its simplicity but infinite controls for many things aswell. And your dead right its such a shame that LR doesn't have any decent sytems that are super hi tech I've always said if they can make something as unreal as an iPhone so small and slim how come they have a massive car and cant put a decent tech system in there!!

I must say I'm mildly jealous that you have an L322 as i can imagine they would be just the ultimate machine and i could only imagine how nice the L405 would be aswell!!

I just bought an ACC unit for my RRV, listed as new for 166 GBP delivered. I concluded that only the right radar unit is used on the 4.4 which uses a conversion harness to connect to the main front harness so will need to buy that (13 GBP) and a bracket (another 13 GBP) and only the left switch bank (92 GBP). The new left switch will match the right switch bank as my vehicle was built with the latest design switches so no need to also buy a right switch. As I can now make CCF changes, enabling ACC (Jag mode) should get it working.

BUT does the Merc have a spare tyre?
Cruise pretty useless if you can't go on a long trip.
Regards Philip A