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    ACC Dash Icon

    I noticed today that when I am using ACC it has acquired another appended icon that appears at about 10 o'clock on the ACC icon. It comes and goes and my suspicion is it indicates that ALG is active but at the same time the two green lines stay green. Has anyone else encountered this?

    While I am here I may as well ask if anyone else has experienced the following. If I set the ACC and then change the speed in 10 kph increments and then immediately try and fine tune the speed setting by one or two kph using the set and resume buttons the speed change does not happen in one kph increments but in four or five kph incremental jumps. if I leave it for a while and use the set and resume button the changes occur as they should in one kph increments.

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    I don't know about the mqb acc but with the PQ platform ACC when the radar has a lock on a vehicle in front it shows a car icon at 10 o'clock above the cruise speedo icon.
    cant help with the set and resume stuff as mine is with a stalk (pull towards you for a 1kmh increase, up for next 10kmh increment and down for previous 10kmh increment whereas yours is on the steering wheel buttons correct?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozsko View Post
    I noticed today that when I am using ACC it has acquired another appended icon that appears at about 10 o'clock on the ACC icon. It comes and goes and my suspicion is it indicates that ALG is active but at the same time the two green lines stay green. Has anyone else encountered this?

    While I am here I may as well ask if anyone else has experienced the following. If I set the ACC and then change the speed in 10 kph increments and then immediately try and fine tune the speed setting by one or two kph using the set and resume buttons the speed change does not happen in one kph increments but in four or five kph incremental jumps. if I leave it for a while and use the set and resume button the changes occur as they should in one kph increments.
    If there is a car at 10 o'clock it's ACC. If there is no car (i.e only arrow) at 10 o'clock it's the speed limiter only. If there is an arrow at 10 o'clock there is no car detected in front. If there is an arrow at 2 o'clock there is a car detected in front.

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    The things we don't notice, I don't recall seeing it before. I just went for another drive and it did not come on but there are no cars about at this time of night where I live. I had a look through the manual but my manual only has the analogue dash in it with no explanation of the TFT dash so I would like a manual that explains it fully to satisfy my OCD tendencies!!

    I just looked at the manual under ACC and you are quite right. VW manuals are not the best thing to find stuff in. Why can't they just have a dashboard with all icons labeled in one place? That would be too easy. Kamold, thanks for taking the time to reply.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozsko View Post
    Why can't they just have a dashboard with all icons labeled in one place? That would be too easy. Kamold, thanks for taking the time to reply.
    I know. I found it annoying too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharp View Post
    If there is a car at 10 o'clock it's ACC. If there is no car (i.e only arrow) at 10 o'clock it's the speed limiter only. If there is an arrow at 10 o'clock there is no car detected in front. If there is an arrow at 2 o'clock there is a car detected in front.
    That is not what is on page 212 of my manual.

    Arrow at 10 o'clock..ACC active no car detected ahead

    Car Icon at 10 o'clock/arrow at 2 o'clock...vehicle detected

    Speed Limiter at 2 o'clock...ACC & speed limiter active

    Arrow at 2 o'clock....ACC & cruise control active

    What the last one is I haven't a clue

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozsko View Post
    The things we don't notice, I don't recall seeing it before. I just went for another drive and it did not come on but there are no cars about at this time of night where I live. I had a look through the manual but my manual only has the analogue dash in it with no explanation of the TFT dash so I would like a manual that explains it fully to satisfy my OCD tendencies!!

    I just looked at the manual under ACC and you are quite right. VW manuals are not the best thing to find stuff in. Why can't they just have a dashboard with all icons labeled in one place? That would be too easy. Kamold, thanks for taking the time to reply.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ozsko View Post
    That is not what is on page 212 of my manual.

    Arrow at 10 o'clock..ACC active no car detected ahead

    Car Icon at 10 o'clock/arrow at 2 o'clock...vehicle detected

    Speed Limiter at 2 o'clock...ACC & speed limiter active

    Arrow at 2 o'clock....ACC & cruise control active

    What the last one is I haven't a clue
    One thing I'm sure of (after 4 months of driving this car) if there's no car at 10 o'clock you don't have the ACC activated. Press the I/0 button again to activate it. Then if there is a car detected in front you see it in the big lane guidance icon ( between two lines).

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharp View Post
    One thing I'm sure of (after 4 months of driving this car) if there's no car at 10 o'clock you don't have the ACC activated. Press the I/0 button again to activate it. Then if there is a car detected in front you see it in the big lane guidance icon ( between two lines).
    Not so on my car and I use ACC every time I drive it because I live in the bush. I drove it 10 k's tonight with no car in front of me and the appended icon did not appear but the ACC was driving the car and holding the set speed. Perhaps there might be a terminology misunderstanding as happened with Lane Assist and Active Lane Guidance. BTW I have had this car since January and have never turned ACC off. Perhaps it might be better to say that the Icon not appearing means the ACC is on (green) but unless a car is in front the icon does not appear at 10 o'clock as it appearance on the screen indicates that the ACC has detected a car in front. Why I need a small blob I can hardly see on the dash to do that is one of the mysteries of the world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozsko View Post
    the ACC was driving the car and holding the set speed
    That's not ACC, it's just the normal cruise control. ACC (that holds a fixed distance with the car in front) requires the car symbol at 10 o'clock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharp View Post
    That's not ACC, it's just the normal cruise control. ACC (that holds a fixed distance with the car in front) requires the car symbol at 10 o'clock.
    So if ACC is not activated when I come up behind another car nothing should happen and I crash into the back of it?

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