DCC and ACC?

[Bill_the_Bear]

Ah gotcha', so the mode button by the gear lever isn't a toggle between "Comfort, Normal and Sport", it's just a button that gives quick access to the on-screen menu.

Yep!  And that menu changes everything about the car (except suspension if you don't have DCC).  If you just want to change the suspension on a DCC car and leave everything else you use the individual profile to change just that part.

Thinking about this:
I think you can also navigate to an individual option like the DCC via the "setup" button on the Nav itself.  (I don't mean going to it through the driver profile now.)  I'm not sure what happens if you do that and change one thing.  Presumably it won't override your individual mode setup, so this is like a 6th mode I guess... a modification to one of the five pre-sets.  Anyone able to confirm this?

[Gryzor]

Yep!  And that menu changes everything about the car (except suspension if you don't have DCC).  If you just want to change the suspension on a DCC car and leave everything else you use the individual profile to change just that part.

I could have sworn that I've seen that "Mode" button show "Sport" or "Comfort" illuminated on it, with no illumination meaning "Normal".  Can anybody with a DCC equipped Roc confirm this?  Yes it may well bring up the menu as well, but I genuinely thought it was a toggle switch between the three core settings.

I completely get that all cars have the driver profiles, and that DCC is just referring to the active dampers though.

[monkeyhanger]

I could have sworn that I've seen that "Mode" button show "Sport" or "Comfort" illuminated on it, with no illumination meaning "Normal".  Can anybody with a DCC equipped Roc confirm this?  Yes it may well bring up the menu as well, but I genuinely thought it was a toggle switch between the three core settings.

I completely get that all cars have the driver profiles, and that DCC is just referring to the active dampers though.

That is completely true for the Roc. The button has a pic of a shock absorber in the middle with "comfort" on the top edge and "sport" on the bottom edge, one of them is lit or it's in normal with no lighting.

[Gryzor]

That is completely true for the Roc. The button has a pic of a shock absorber in the middle with "comfort" on the top edge and "sport" on the bottom edge, one of them is lit or it's in normal with no lighting.

Cheers MH.  Be interesting to see if that "Mode" button is just a regular button for cars without DCC that just activates the driver profile menu, and a true toggle switch for cars that are equipped with DCC.  Not a big deal really, but, certainly easier to toggle via a button for when you just want a stock mode.

[Bill_the_Bear]

That is completely true for the Roc. The button has a pic of a shock absorber in the middle with "comfort" on the top edge and "sport" on the bottom edge, one of them is lit or it's in normal with no lighting.

Cheers MH.  Be interesting to see if that "Mode" button is just a regular button for cars without DCC that just activates the driver profile menu, and a true toggle switch for cars that are equipped with DCC.  Not a big deal really, but, certainly easier to toggle via a button for when you just want a stock mode.

Ah!  I know what you are thinking of:
http://www.my-gti.com/2653/volkswagen-dcc-adaptive-chassis-control-design-and-function

Scroll down to "Selectable DCC modes".

[Gryzor]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of!

Edit:  There's a good shot of it all here in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kl8AP6CoyI, roughly 4 minutes in.  You can see the mode switch just illuminates to signify that you are in a preset "mode".  When pressed you get the menu up on-screen, and you just select what you want.  I assume then, that if that button is not illuminated, the car is just a completely stock setup, albeit with active damping if you specced it.  Good footage of the varying travel on the dampers too.

[Jimble]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of!

Edit:  There's a good shot of it all here in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kl8AP6CoyI, roughly 4 minutes in.  You can see the mode switch just illuminates to signify that you are in a preset "mode".  When pressed you get the menu up on-screen, and you just select what you want.  I assume then, that if that button is not illuminated, the car is just a completely stock setup, albeit with active damping if you specced it.  Good footage of the varying travel on the dampers too.

At 4:30 in that video you see him press the button by the gear stick which brings up the modes on the screen then he selects normal. Hmmm?

[Gryzor]

At 4:30 in that video you see him press the button by the gear stick which brings up the modes on the screen then he selects normal. Hmmm?

Yeah, if all it does is being up an on-screen menu, it's a step backwards relative to what was in the Roc that was confirmed as having a proper 3-way toggle.  If pressing it cycled through the modes without needing to bother with the screen apart from to just confirm your selection, that's not too bad.

[Bill_the_Bear]

But in a Roc its just the DCC, in the mk7 its accessing driver mode which is much more complex than just 1 in 3 modes.  There are probably hundreds of potential combinations.

[JonnyG]

The Individual Settings Available look like this 

Decisions ...  decisions