An interesting one the other day. Cruise was swtiched off automatically and a message came up on Idrive saying that this was due to slippage. It was round a bend and the road was slippery so was a correct functioning - I just never knew it did that.

Regards,

 

Yeah I've had that before. Nice function

 

What's also interesting is that if you disengage DSC in any way -- DTC on or DSC fully off -- you can't engage the cruise control at all...

 

proud to own a BMW ;-)

 

Never knew that! Makes sense though, given that the "resume" button can result in some energetic acceleration. Add it on to the list of those little things that make these cars soooo good.

 

I didn't know but it is a clever feature .

PS :
Proud to have a location

 

my 650 with active cruise does thet as well. until now i thought it was just the ACC cruise. thnks for the post.

 

Took me a couple of minutes to figure it out what the heck was going on the first time I tried to lock in the cruise with DSC off. Great safety feature.

 

I can still enable the cruise control in both modes, no problem at all. If I disable DSC while driving with cruise control, it stays on. And I can then still switch CC on and off, independant of DTC/DSC settings.

It may be a US/EU difference.

 

I noticed another thing. If you press the DTC button for >10 seconds, you'll lock the button.
In other words: After pressing it for >10 seconds, pushing the button again doesn't do anything at all until you switch off the car.

Anyone knows what this is for? I can imagine that you could want to lock the safety systems if you give the car to your 18 year old son, but in this case it doesn't make sense as the button works again when you restart the car.