Driving back from t'North this afternoon the lane assist on the V60 went a bit haywire and tried - repeatedly - to force the car out of the lane and into the car alongside. I've never known it apply so much force to the wheel - I couldn't hold it in lane with one hand - and never in clear, bright conditions with perfect lane markings.
Full credit to the driver I was overtaking for his ninja-like reactions in swerving out of the way as it pulled the wheel through my hands. Trying to hold a madly twitching wheel with one hand - and a sore shoulder from a climbing accident last week - while the other is frantically stabbing every button within reach on the centre console is not an experience I particularly wish to repeat.
Think the car is going to get dumped at the dealer next week so they can probe its electronic brain to find out exactly what it was thinking at the time.
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I would leave it there, that's not the kind of behaviour you want a repeat of.
My Jeep gave me a rude awakening last week when I tried to nip out of a side turning into a too-small gap in traffic; I gave it all the berries relying on the 4wd's torque transfer (and possibly the ESP) to keep it on the straight and narrow, but it wildly spun both rear wheels (only) and left me at a 45-degree angle to the traffic before I caught it. No diff intervention or flashing ESP light at any point during the loss of traction; I may as well have been driving a 1980s RWD car.
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Well, if we're doing confessions, I rolled up this evening to the pause-on-the-hill crossroads I do every night on my way home, thought for a moment I must be about to pull away in third and pushed the stick left - into reverse.
Twice.
Fortunately nobody there to see it except a pedestrian waiting to cross the road I was trying - badly - to enter. She seemed not to notice.
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>> Driving back from t'North this afternoon the lane assist on the V60 went a bit
>> haywire and tried - repeatedly - to force the car out of the lane and
>> into the car alongside. I've never known it apply so much force to the wheel
>> - I couldn't hold it in lane with one hand - and never in clear,
>> bright conditions with perfect lane markings.
Thought you'd be used to haywire autopilot by now. You probably had a frozen up pitot head.
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Wife's birthday so we took youngest for a pub lunch...others working. I drove in the Grand Vit. Leaving our parking space in backwards gear, the old girl embarrassingly spun her back wheels on the snowy car park....as BMWs/Mercs do.
Had to snick into 4WD to get out. We got to the point where the bonnet was sticking out into the road and SWM was looking at the traffic and urging me to go. I told her I was waiting until there was a really big gap 'cos I didn't know just how far I would get out with the lack of traction.
It coped all right and I drove to the next lights before changing back to RWD only. You can't change while moving.
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...and yet, my Merc did 420 miles yesterday in the snow on wide 'summer' tyres and gave no trouble at all. Steady as a rock. Must be something wrong with it.
;-)
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Same with my 3 series, although living at around 600' in the YDales NP I do have cold weather tyres fitted all year round.
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Living in Surrey, we dont get cold weather
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Aye mebbe so, but there are the other downsides.
;-)
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>> Living in Surrey, we dont get cold weather
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Ah! Living in north Devon we do, followed by rain. Then........
...it changes to rain followed by wind:-)
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Anxious moment as I've ordered a V60....I'm sure I didn't specify lane assist as I don't like it....no - good, it's an option and I didn't.
It's standard on my Octavia and I tried it once, but only once. Not being of the middle-lane-hogger persuasion, I change lanes more often than some, and the steering feel was completely artificial. A can of Red Bull is a better bet for ensuring I stay awake on a long run.
Volvo call it 'Lane Keeping Aid' - so it should be trying to keep you in the same lane, not forcing you out of it. Seems like a poor show from a company which is always saying how safe its cars are.
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Glad you are safe FF, it must have been scary.
Rather like landing at LBA in a strong crosswind, although hopefully it was only the passengers who were twitching!
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The CashCow has some sort of 'lane keeping assistant' but it just beeps if you drift out of your lane without signalling. It doesn't interfere with the steering at all. I can just about live with that...
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The Merc has a flingelwidget thingy which can tell if you're tired and it beeps at you when you are. Dunno how it works. Sometimes it beeps at me when I'm not tired. It's a bit like having a mother in law in the dashboard.
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>> The Merc has a flingelwidget thingy which can tell if you're tired and it beeps
>> at you when you are. Dunno how it works. Sometimes it beeps at me when
>> I'm not tired. It's a bit like having a mother in law in the dashboard.
BBD's would block the windscreen apparently.
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Mine puts a little picture of a cup of coffee on the display. The flingelwidget that is, not my mother in law. She'd most probably put a little broomstick on it.
Last edited by: Runfer D'Hills on Sat 5 Mar 16 at 13:48
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That was embarrassing... - Dave_
