Today I travelled to Blackpool from Northants for a day out. It was the first long distance journey in the car since I’ve had it and my first opportunity to test it, I came across the following issues:
1) it was telling me I was on a 45mph road when in fact it was a 20mph road (it may not have picked up the 20 from the previous 30 road I was on)
2) it would often tell me I was on a 45 or an 80mph road
3) the oh drive their and said she had no issues at all with the ACC - I drove back and to be honest I didn’t have any issues at first, but then it started to match my speed with the car on the left - I’m not sure it tied in with dusk but definitely didn’t do it at the start
4) I was using my phone for the sat nav and witless charging it - it only overheated the phone and caused it to switch off!
5) no one was around me and my car kept trying to slow me to down, my speed display recognised a 40mph sign but the 40 zone had ended - could it have been trying to drop me to the speed limit?
6) randomly my ACC stopped working totally, and whilst I was fiddling with it, the motorway merged from 4 lanes to 2 and I went under a 40 gantry at 49/50 - I completely missed it messing around with the ACC. Also didn’t help that the guy to the left was doing same speed as me and wouldn’t move over to let me move into the lane that was staying open.
Has anyone had any of the above issues? I know some of the speed limit readings could be converting to kmph - but is there a way of stopping this?
Also does anyone have any experience of the variable limits section on the M6 near Northwich (J19-18 southbound)? I said above it was a gantry but it was one of the square ones that displays information - in this instance it had a 40 limit and the oh said she seen yellow cameras although we didn’t see a flash - but read these don’t flash anyway. If it got me it got about 5 or 6 others too!