I can confirm the Front Assist and Automatic Braking Works ...

[timslim]

Hi folks - new top the forum, but been lurking since ordered in May...Th car is fantastic, and well worth the wait.

I quick question on the front assist - and probably a daft one at that!  How can I tell if its working or not?  It is enabled on setup, but have never yet seen either the red warning come up as the collision pre-warning, or the brakes applied - perhaps I am just a very careful driver but sure I am not.  Have had systems on an Audi and Range Rover before and these seemed to activate all the time...

[matchboy]

Hi folks - new top the forum, but been lurking since ordered in May...Th car is fantastic, and well worth the wait.

I quick question on the front assist - and probably a daft one at that!  How can I tell if its working or not?  It is enabled on setup, but have never yet seen either the red warning come up as the collision pre-warning, or the brakes applied - perhaps I am just a very careful driver but sure I am not.  Have had systems on an Audi and Range Rover before and these seemed to activate all the time...

As far as I'm aware its just on all the time.  Well, it certainly was when I was cutting lanes the other day into the left and the car thought I was too close to the van in the middle lane (which I wasn't  ) and it slammed on the brakes for me.....fortunately only for a second - but it proves it works!

[monkeyhanger]

As far as I'm aware it’s just on all the time.  Well, it certainly was when I was cutting lanes the other day into the left and the car thought I was too close to the van in the middle lane (which I wasn't  ) and it slammed on the brakes for me.....fortunately only for a second - but it proves it works!

Haven’t had a slam on the brakes yet, but had some alerts, when something big (like a bus) slowly passes me, or when I slowly pass something big, maybe approaching a roundabout etc.

There’s also been a few times when I have been quite close to the car in front (not BMW/Audi sales-rep close!) and the cautionary sign you’re closer than the system would like to you be hasn’t signalled at all, yet another time, not even as close and it has signalled. Sometimes I attribute it to maybe the car in front dipping down a hill just before me, so in effect the radar is looking over the top of their car. Other times I wonder why the car isn’t indicating that I’m closer than it would like.

Sometimes it seems more concerned with a change in speed rather than a change in the gap size e.g. very close to the car in front, but it’s accelerating away from me slowly and opening the gap – system not concerned. Huge gap between me and the car in front and the car in front brakes a little – car becomes concerned even though the gap is still huge at the point of alert.

I could see it being an issue when you are maybe stuck behind something and you get quite close to what’s trundling in front of you, ready to pounce on a gap in oncoming traffic and get past, then the car bangs on the brakes mid manoeuvre to come out. Hasn’t happened to me yet.

[CraigW]

I had a situation a couple of weeks ago where i had the ACC on and i had it set at the closest distance away from the car in front. Coming up to a traffic jam and the car in front starts to brake fairly rapidly but my car didnt appear to recognise the reduction in speed. So i just manually braked as i wasnt willing to find out what would have happened if i hadnt bothered.

Perhaps i was too hasty in braking but you just never know. What i would say is thats its nice to have these systems there but i would never fully trust them

[monkeyhanger]

I had a situation a couple of weeks ago where i had the ACC on and i had it set at the closest distance away from the car in front. Coming up to a traffic jam and the car in front starts to brake fairly rapidly but my car didnt appear to recognise the reduction in speed. So i just manually braked as i wasnt willing to find out what would have happened if i hadnt bothered.

Perhaps i was too hasty in braking but you just never know. What i would say is thats its nice to have these systems there but i would never fully trust them

I’ve had some similar encounters where I have intervened before the car – not been too tempted to wait off the brake to see if it intervenes, just in case it doesn’t! Nice to have as a last resort, but not to be banked on.

[Aidey]

Today driving in town doing about 25-30, an old couple pulled over in front of me and the notice on the mfd flashed up in red gave an audio warning bleep also. Followed by myself flashing my lights and waving my hand

[harryhackenbacker]

Read this post with Interest ,now the Mk7 loan car and the GTI I now have ,I think both set on medium , have never
showed any warnings or braked ,despite egging them on to do so ,close overtaking ,tailgating ,no brakes into the
garage , perhaps it's the settings ,or perhaps it doesn't work !!!!! but on 2 cars !!!

[timslim]

Thanks for your feedback - seems many have seen the function work in practice - However my experience is the same as Harry - close overtaking/tail gating etc and nothing has popped up...maybe I need to change the setting to 'far away' to make it more sensitive, or is it the other way around !?!

I know the ACC is working fine, as dose the little warning if you drive too close for too long to the car in front (two cars with a ! in the middle)

[CraigW]

I hope you guys are not advocating tailgating. There's nothing more annoying than having some clown right up your backside 

[matchboy]

I hope you guys are not advocating tailgating. There's nothing more annoying than having some clown right up your backside 

Yep.  Brake test the mother f7ckers, drop it into 3rd, then nail it.  They won't be able to catch up, and they won't do it again.