Speedtronic...good/bad??

[salfordmerc]

I'd be interested to know how popular it is on here?Ive never used mine once and I maybe missing something but cant see the point why you'd use speedtronic over cruise control, I may need enlightening !

 

[renault12ts]

With speedtronic, as opposed to CC, you will not run into the vehicle in front. You will be kept a constant distance from the vehicle in front and therefore not have to keep turning the CC on and off.

I think.

 

[Dr-Nab]

Isn't speedtronic the speed limiter function?

Distronic is the CC that keeps you a certain distance (depending on what you set it to) behind the car infront.

 

[Palfrem]

Speedtronic = crusie control

It's brilliant on roadwords when there are camera enforced average speed limits.

Good too on the far reaches of the M6 and M74 where it's all too easy to creep up round the speedo.

 

[crockers]

Not right. Speedtronic isnt cruise control it's the speed limiter. One of MBs best features. Dial it in and drive normally knowing you will not go over the speed set. Great in towns where you want instant control etc but no tickets. Cruise is the auto speed thingy that allows you to take foot off throttle and not feel in control

 

[tagnut]

Best feature on the car for me. Use it all the time to prevent myself getting a ticket in locations with average speed camera's and through towns etc.

 

[salfordmerc]

So hypothetically speaking your driving along in a 50mph zone, you get your speed up to 50 press the speedtronic on and it will set that as a max speed....Now,will CC still work at anything below the 50mph ?

 

[tagnut]

So hypothetically speaking your driving along in a 50mph zone, you get your speed up to 50 press the speedtronic on and it will set that as a max speed....Now,will CC still work at anything below the 50mph ?

Actually set mine to 55 and don't have a problem. The beauty of it is you can just put your foot down and the car won't go any faster than the speed set so no worries. Works in increments of 5MPH.

While speedtronic is engaged you can't use cruise control. It's one or the other

 

[Dryce]

Not right. Speedtronic isnt cruise control it's the speed limiter.

Are you sure? I thought Speedtronic was the name for the combined cruiise control and speed limit facility on MBs.

 

[Ted]

What Palfrem says
I find it very useful in roadworks, whereas I hardly ever use CC.
It can also be overriden if you put your foot to the floor n(i.e. activate the kickdown switch)

 

[tagnut]

It can also be overriden if you put your foot to the floor n(i.e. activate the kickdown switch)

Every day's a school day......cheers,

 

[tpwuk]

With speedtronic, as opposed to CC, you will not run into the vehicle in front. You will be kept a constant distance from the vehicle in front and therefore not have to keep turning the CC on and off.

I think.

That's Distronic

 

[Palfrem]

...too many tronics

 

[verytalldave]

Actually set mine to 55 and don't have a problem. The beauty of it is you can just put your foot down and the car won't go any faster than the speed set so no worries. Works in increments of 5MPH.

While speedtronic is engaged you can't use cruise control. It's one or the other

Not true.
You can set it in increments of 1mph.

 

[tpwuk]

Speedtronic is a limiter. Set it to 30 for example, and you won't exceed 30mph, unless of cause you engage kick-down which will deactivate speedtronic.

 

[tagnut]

Not true.
You can set it in increments of 1mph.

On mine the cruise can be set in increments of 1mph but the limiter is done in increments of 5mph

 

[Dr-Nab]

I pretty much always use the limiter function to avoid getting a ticket.. local police force now have a camera van that's fully functional at night... which is usually set up hidden between trees/signposts etc so don't want to stray over the limit.. always brilliant when some complete and utter tail overtakes me then realises there's a camera pointing right at them!

 

[Setanta]

Did not realise that my CL had this until I ran into it at 124mph on the autobahn when it flashed up "LIM" and I thought - oh no, I have broken the car.

Co-pilot frantically reading the manual, issue resolved and off we went to 155mph

No idea who set it at 124mph or when

 

[Horrgakx]

I noticed that my E55 AMG (W210 1990) uses increments of 1km/h on the CC (backed up by the manual) but 5mph on the Speedtronic. The minimum speed on the CC is 30kmh (not mph).
It also locks the doors and activates the reverse gear selector lock at 10km/h.

Setanta - there's a great big orange word "LIM" lights up on my dash when the limiter is engaged - and there's an LED at the end of the stalk if that wasn't enough. It's like "Did you know the limiter was on? No really, it's on, honest!".

 

[tagnut]

Did not realise that my CL had this until I ran into it at 124mph on the autobahn when it flashed up "LIM" and I thought - oh no, I have broken the car.

Co-pilot frantically reading the manual, issue resolved and off we went to 155mph

No idea who set it at 124mph or when

That's a different limiter I think. You can set an overall max speed for the car somewhere in the cluster menu. I think it's for when you switch to winter tyres or something like that. With speedtronic you just push the cruise stalk in to switch from cruise control to speedtronic and then flick the stalk up to set the current max speed you want.