Retro Fit Adaptive Cruise Control

[DexD]

The thing about a modern Polo is all that stuff is standard in an `R Line car. VW, Porsche… modules must be similar. I said, after using the Polo’s ACC, I’d have it on every car I owned. My experience is it work well, it makes it easy to change speed limits quickly, M1 70-50-60-70-50-50-20-50-70. And that’s just London to Nottingham. Thanks for your advice. I fear, even if they can do it the cost will be two or three times the option price.

Thanks. I'll look that up. Great advice.

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[DexD]

Thanks. I'll look that up. Great advice.
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Press and hold the regen button to activate, or set as 'on' in individual mode

 

[W1NGE]

The thing about a modern Polo is all that stuff is standard in an `R Line car. VW, Porsche… modules must be similar. I said, after using the Polo’s ACC, I’d have it on every car I owned. My experience is it work well, it makes it easy to change speed limits quickly, M1 70-50-60-70-50-50-20-50-70. And that’s just London to Nottingham. Thanks for your advice. I fear, even if they can do it the cost will be two or three times the option price.

Thanks. I'll look that up. Great advice.

I have issues with Auto Regen which can be unreliable so don't expect it to work in all scenarios (sunlight can impact amongst other things). Note that Porsche don't recommend it for controlling the vehicle's speed either.

Give it a whirl but..

 

[wmras]

I have issues with Auto Regen which can be unreliable so don't expect it to work in all scenarios (sunlight can impact amongst other things). Note that Porsche don't recommend it for controlling the vehicle's speed either.

Give it a whirl but..

Have used Auto Regen for years and love it. It is especially useful going down a mountain - it will track the vehicle in front of you without ever touching the brakes. Great fun in Porsche club outings. Never had scary moments, unlike Adaptive Cruise Control when the vehicle in front of you suddenly changes lanes.

 

[tophamn]

In my experience it is prone to misjudgement when reliant on road markings (poor in UK) and signage, speed limits and sometimes direct sunlight. Many folk who have ACC end up disabling some of the features. The Taycan already comes with a speed limiter and cruise control (which can consider speed limits too), personally I see no need for a 3rd. Speed limiter is problematic too due to random changing speed limits and the lack of restriction signage. Nice graphics but...

Taycan has Collision Warning as standard and so 'crashing' is less likely unless driving inappropriately.

ACC (with all features and Lane Departure (lights in mirrors) should be standard or cost the same as it does in the Polo (or lesser cars). Users can then select which feature within the stack they want to use / rely on.

For me ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control) is ESSENTIAL! - I wouldn't buy a car without it. I think you're confusing ACC with other things like InnoDrive (bit of a gimmick, IMHO), auto lane keep, etc. What I need from ACC is maintaining the set speed but slowing down automatically when the traffic ahead slows.

Oh, and auto-regen is a poor alternative.

 

[f1eng]

For me ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control) is ESSENTIAL! - I wouldn't buy a car without it. I think you're confusing ACC with other things like InnoDrive (bit of a gimmick, IMHO), auto lane keep, etc. What I need from ACC is maintaining the set speed but slowing down automatically when the traffic ahead slows.

Oh, and auto-regen is a poor alternative.

I think it depends very much on the road conditions you normally drive in.
I rarely use motorways and when I do I choose to travel when the traffic is light, where possible.

My preference on the rare occasions I am travelling on motorways is to proceed at constant speed, which standard cruise control does fine. With ACC if you drive as advised in the leftmost lane you end up slowing for every truck WAY before you catch it up, forcing you to change lanes really early or become a much derided middle lane hogger or even end up in a long peloton of cars all too close together and changing speed in unison (in an inefficient way too).

I hate both these scenarios, so was pleased to be able to have normal old fashioned cruise control on my Taycan. Other recent cars have had it as standard and I ended up only using it in traffic jams.

I can see as our road conditions get more and more congested it has its place, just not for me

 

[W1NGE]

For me ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control) is ESSENTIAL! - I wouldn't buy a car without it. I think you're confusing ACC with other things like InnoDrive (bit of a gimmick, IMHO), auto lane keep, etc. What I need from ACC is maintaining the set speed but slowing down automatically when the traffic ahead slows.

Oh, and auto-regen is a poor alternative.

No confusion here (I've been around the block a long while now).

Call me old fashioned but it is a non-essential gadget for me that people are becoming too reliant on. I'm not in the autonomous driving camp either - a recipe for disaster.

 

[Bennachie]

Wot e said.

 

[figure1a]

There's a You Tube of an official dealer fitting it to a Macon, I think. Hardware, Cut Hole, Run Wires, Update Software.
Why won't Porsche give it a warranty? Their parts, their manpower.

Cut a hole—LOL. Any official procedure would be changing that trim piece to the ACC trim piece.

 

[taycev]

In case anyone's still desperate for this... There is a seller on eBay selling a retrofit supplied and fitted in Bristol UK for £1950. It's marketed as an OEM system with full integration, and photos of the dash showing the usual graphics for this.
5 hours fitting time.

 

[Rech25]

Mám paradoxný problém. Objednal som si auto s ACC, ale Porsche ho jednoducho nedodalo – aj keď bolo v mojej konfigurácii. Takže teraz sa ho predajca pokúsi dodatočne namontovať. Som zvedavý, ako to dopadne.

 

[ct14garage]

Retrofitting ACC is very easy. I just did one today. But be aware of Chinese sensors.

Some people in China are very smart and they have realized that almost every ACC LiDar sensor in the market is made by BOSCH with basically identical hardware. So they grab one from say Jeep which are very cheap, flash them with Porsche software and stick a Porsche sticker laber. Sell for half the price of genuine Porsche as genuine... everyone buys it

and it works BUT the serial number of such a sensor from Jeep or Audi etc are not stored in Porsche's server so Component Protection will keep coming back from time to time and each time you have to clear it using PIWIS and PPN account.

For this reason I only use genuine cameras

 

[TonyR]

In case anyone's still desperate for this... There is a seller on eBay selling a retrofit supplied and fitted in Bristol UK for £1950. It's marketed as an OEM system with full integration, and photos of the dash showing the usual graphics for this.
5 hours fitting time.

Had them install it on my Taycan. Did a good job and would recommend them. They order the bits as spare parts from Porsche. It needs a new panel with the sensor below the numberplate and a new stalk unit for the steering wheel. It allows you to activate ACC and ALK which make it much more relaxing in stop-go traffic. What I haven’t been able to do yet is activate InnoDrive as I would find the automatic slowing for speed limits and roundabouts/junctions useful. Think I might have to ask Porsche to activate it but wondering how to explain its appearance on the car! Pity Porsche don’t offer it as an upgrade. I had CC added to my Cayman by Porsche but they wouldn’t do it for my Taycan.

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