MGS5 Auto Speed Limiter

[Thorin1962]

We drove to Peterborough on Sunday with the speed limiter switch on and set to Auto, as I was driving past the second slip road for Newmarket approaching the filling station on the A14 I noticed a horse box leaving the filling station and I indicated to pull out to the middle lane, as we got to the slip road, and half way through pulling out, the speed limiter decided I should be doing 15 MPH instead of the 70 MPH i was doing and started to brake the car. I was alarmed and had to remember how to switch the limiter off quickly before someone hit me from behind, on a busy road where pretty much everyone else is going at 70 MPH and our car braking was more than a little dangerous and certainly scary.

I switched the limiter back on afterwards and on the trip there and back it must have done this trick a good 6/7 times for varying speeds from 30 MPH to 50 MPH, one time there wasn't even a slip road !

Has anyone else had this type of issue before ?

 

[Alb]

AUTO isn't a good option for anything related to speed limit recognition.

 

[Thorin1962]

Agreed, but its Auto or nothing on these models. Other cars I've had I could manually set the speed limiter with no issues when left to me to manage

 

[Alb]

The speed limiter has a manual mode.

 

[Thorin1962]

Not that I've seen, nor the dealers who couldn't set it to manual.

Do you have any details as I would much prefer to set this manually ?

 

[TimothyN]

Long press the button and it goes to manual.

You can also switch off speed recognition altogether, as I have, because, as you've discovered, it's pants.

 

[Alb]

When every other option has failed, read the manual

 

[Thorin1962]

Long press the button and it goes to manual.

You can also switch off speed recognition altogether, as I have, because, as you've discovered, it's pants.

Thanks I'll give the long press a go and see if it is any good for me