Scottish Elises

Do you find it useful?

I have it in one of my cars and regularly find hire cars have it these days, but don't really see the point of it. What do you do with your right foot? I worry if I relax my foot away from the pedals it will take longer to brake in an emergency, and if I hover it over the break pedal instead, that's harder than working accelerator pedal.

Only used it a couple of times. I see the benefit in Europe where you often can go for much longer on motorway.

I've got it on the Exige and actually find it quite useful for preserving my licence on the dual carriageway/motorway. I havent actually thought about what I do with my feet at the time.

I use it all the time. Not much difference in getting your foot from resting on the right to the brake pedal or from the throttle to the brake pedal.
When you see a potential problem you get ready to react anyway. Sometimes I'll knock of the CC in preparation for a potential requirement to brake.
Keeps me from getting caught out by all the speed cameras on the A90.
Wouldn't buy a car without it these days. Very handy on long runs for sure.

Use it all the time! It takes a lot of effort out of holding a steady speed makes journeys much less tiring. If you use it, you'll soon see how much other drivers drift from one speed to another. After a while it becomes second nature and overriding it, or canceling it, becomes instinctive.

Easy to retrofit?

mxvx wrote:Easy to retrofit?

Depends on the car. My mk 5 golf gti was about £140, and involved fitting a new indicator stalk, and telling the ecu it was there. My Audi A3 was going to be nearly £500 to get fitted, so I did not bother.

Two of our current fleet has it. I like it and use it a lot on motorway / dual carriage journeys. As others say, very useful for keeping your speed under control, and makes for a more relaxed and less tiring journey. I rest my right foot on the wheel arch.

neil wrote:I've got it on the Exige and actually find it quite useful for preserving my licence on the dual carriageway/motorway. I havent actually thought about what I do with my feet at the time.

flyingscot68 wrote:I use it all the time. Not much difference in getting your foot from resting on the right to the brake pedal or from the throttle to the brake pedal.
When you see a potential problem you get ready to react anyway. Sometimes I'll knock of the CC in preparation for a potential requirement to brake.
Keeps me from getting caught out by all the speed cameras on the A90.
Wouldn't buy a car without it these days. Very handy on long runs for sure.

David wrote:Use it all the time! It takes a lot of effort out of holding a steady speed makes journeys much less tiring. If you use it, you'll soon see how much other drivers drift from one speed to another. After a while it becomes second nature and overriding it, or canceling it, becomes instinctive.

Concur will all the above.

Use it even on short stints around town in 40 zones, but mostly on my regular runs to and from ABZ, mainly in hire cars. I'm truly disappointed if I get one without cruise (quite uncommon nowadays) and just as Neil says, it's a great licence preserver, pop it on at an indicated 76-79 (approx 74 on the satnav) and there's no worries about the cameras on the A90

It's also far less tiring on long journeys such as my canny run to and from Penrith last week with the wife and kids in my own car

Also a bit fan. The merc speed limiter is equally useful. Set a mac speed eg 30 and you cannot go over. Pop the button and it's off again.
Intelligent cc is da future with radar etc.

Sanjoy wrote: Intelligent cc is da future with radar etc.

Tried that on an SL600, superb.

I'm new to it, having it on the A4. Still haven't fully explored the benefits as I don't do high miles but can see how it could work on long journeys given low enough traffic volume.

Retrofit on VAG platform cars is well documented but don't know about others.

BMW has it. On the rare occasion it gets driven, cruise gets used lots.

I love it and was one thing I really missed in the lotus particularly for those long jaunts down through France.

My focus can be set as low as 20mph and with 5 of these zones on my morning commute it has been a point saver on more than one occasion.

I must have it set for nearly 80% of my commute and would hate to have a car without it now.

I use it everyday on the ctr. I join the m74 where it's a 50 zone, then 60 and it's a great licence saver. Great for roads like the a9 too.

Once you get used to it you won't hover over the brake as much and you'll just use the cancel button and / or the + - to make small adjustments in speed.

Lazydonkey wrote: Once you get used to it you won't hover over the brake as much and you'll just use the cancel button and / or the + - to make small adjustments in speed.

You mean sort of like an analogue accelerator pedal, but sh*t?