Retro Fit Cruise Control & Auto Hold..?

[gazza007]

Someone here did do the rear speakers - can't remember who though

Wish they'd come & do mine!!!

[gamichea]

This thread is tempting me to get CC. I've always shied away on the grounds it does not suit my driving style very well because:-

1. I tend to shed speed by lifting off the gas rather than check braking.

2. While cruising on a dual carriageway I will pick up speed to overtake quickly rather than pass at a low differential.

If I read the handbook aright the accelerator pedal is totally disabled when CC is on but the CC stalk can be used like a hand throttle to avoid switching off CC or hitting the brake or clutch pedal.

Have I got that right? If yes, how responsive is the hand throttle function? Any advice/experience/observations would be most welcome. TIA.

Mike

[james_tiger_woo]

When CC is on, you can use the accelerator as you like to speed up, however, your speed will settle back to your set CC speed - eg - CC set to 72, you need to speed up to 80 - use the pedal, lift off and the speed will settle back to 72.

Pressing the clutch, brake, pushing the CC stalk back or forcing the car out of gear (don't ask) will turn off CC.

The CC stalk will speed the car up, but it will increase cruising speed - if it's at 60 and you want to speed up and cruis at 70, push and hold the stalk up until you get to 70 or notch it up twice to increase it by 10mph.

Hope that helps.

PS - get it

PPS - which Alfa specialist did you use in Lincoln?

[gamichea]

When CC is on, you can use the accelerator as you like to speed up, however, your speed will settle back to your set CC speed - eg - CC set to 72, you need to speed up to 80 - use the pedal, lift off and the speed will settle back to 72.

Pressing the clutch, brake, pushing the CC stalk back or forcing the car out of gear (don't ask) will turn off CC.

The CC stalk will speed the car up, but it will increase cruising speed - if it's at 60 and you want to speed up and cruis at 70, push and hold the stalk up until you get to 70 or notch it up twice to increase it by 10mph.

Hope that helps.

PS - get it

PPS - which Alfa specialist did you use in Lincoln?

Thanks, JTW, that does help. Perhaps you missed your vocation and should be designing/writing clearly expressed handbooks for VW .

My Alfa specialist in Lincoln is BLS, www.blsautomotive.co.uk. Partners are Tom Shrubb and Phil Bower. They answer the 'phone as well as doing the work! Email is a little slower 'cos Tom deals with that in his spare time at home!

[james_tiger_woo]

Thanks, JTW, that does help. Perhaps you missed your vocation and should be designing/writing clearly expressed handbooks for VW .

I've been writing IT manuals, IT instructions and giving IT training for years - writing VW manuals, however, is something that God himself would bang his head on the desk with

[Quatrelle]

.....Pressing the clutch, brake, pushing the CC stalk back or forcing the car out of gear (don't ask) will turn off CC....

Can I add that if you want to re-engage it after doing any of the above, if you just pull the stalk back again it re-engages CC at the previous set speed. Pushing the stalk right back completely disengages it.

The picture in the handbook is totally confusing.

And yes, get it!!

[welshpedro]

Just to add I had cruise fitted last week, and it's well worth getting.. better system than in my previous Golf V and my "weekend" Saab 'vert.

[gamichea]

Thanks guys for the help and encouragement. Its booked in at my dealer for next Monday. £150 all-in on a replacement stalk basis. Be interesting to see how confused I get with additional function on a single stalk .

They're gonna check the fuel pump as well which is good 'cos we're off to France soon and I don't want to be stranded there, nice as it is.

[gamichea]

Done, and first impressions are favourable. Got an extra stalk as per the handbook. What I hadn't grasped is that the stalks are an integrated unit. Had to wait an extra day for the new steering column lower cowl to arrive.

This is the first B6 my dealer had fitted with cruise and it wasn't till they got to the end of the fitting instructions there was any mention of a replacement steering column cowl being needed. Get your act together VW!

For any one else considering having this done here are the part nos.and itemised costs for my car:

65.53 Cruise control stalk unit 3C5054690
16.09 Steering column lower cowl 3C0858559J1QB
50.00 Labour
23.03 VAT
154.65 Total

Pretty pleased with that especially as it included a courtesey car.
Fuel pump replaced at same time under warranty which was good.