What is ACC?
05-28-2008, 02:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Rudy' post='589725' date='May 28 2008, 12:12 AM
Resting your foot on the pedal will turn the distance bars off (and prevent the car from slowing or stopping on it's own.) This is working as designed so I don't think your dealer will be able to do anything about it. Actually, this feature is a handy way to temporarily override the stop and go and allow the car to get closer to the car in front of you -- just be ready for the car to hit the brakes hard if you come off the gas after an override...
Isn't it strange that the dealer didn't suggest the foot resting thing to me??
05-28-2008, 03:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Rudy' post='586895' date='May 23 2008, 02:28 PM
This clearly does not work on my car -- it must be a country specific thing or possibly (hopefully) a software improvement.
I'll try the active cruise disabling thingy on the way into the dealers, and then I'll try it again when I get it back, might answer your question about the software version?
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05-28-2008, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by bardel' post='589894' date='May 28 2008, 12:51 PM
Hmm, interesting, my car goes in for a TCU replacement tomorrow and will get reprogrammed to the latest software. The car was reprogrammed back in Feb I think already to try and clear the TCU problems.
I'll try the active cruise disabling thingy on the way into the dealers, and then I'll try it again when I get it back, might answer your question about the software version?
Barry
I'll try the active cruise disabling thingy on the way into the dealers, and then I'll try it again when I get it back, might answer your question about the software version?
Barry
Unfortunately, I can't now tell you if it's something that's going to be enabled by my car being updated to the latest software tomorrow as it already has it! I can tell you the car was last reprogrammed around 6th March which I think means v29 and tomorrow it will probably end up being v30.
11-17-2008, 10:16 AM
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thats cool i always got my cruise control to work but never the aac because i come to close to cars and i would have to stop myself 
11-24-2008, 01:44 AM
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We wanted the Active Cruise Control but BMW doesnt offer it in my country due to the poor traffic conditions. The traffic has been classified as C grade 
06-03-2010, 09:04 AM
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The stop & go was added.
Since you can't have ACC without it, you can still call it "ACC", allthough correct it would be "ACC with stop & go function".
06-03-2010, 12:50 PM
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May be you know when one option replaced another? I'm looking to buy 2007 E61 in Germany and I still can not catch which cars have and which don't this Stop&Go variant. Is there any difference how does it look like on the car? Both options (old and new) need radar in front bamper?
06-04-2010, 05:47 AM
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May be you know when one option replaced another? I'm looking to buy 2007 E61 in Germany and I still can not catch which cars have and which don't this Stop&Go variant. Is there any difference how does it look like on the car? Both options (old and new) need radar in front bamper?