Cruise control

I find the cruise control is a distraction as it usually takes me about 100 miles in the hire car to work out how to engage it and what disengages it.

In my bus I found that a sticky throttle spindle on a 34PICT-3 is a cheap and not very effective substitute. Or setting the idle by mistake on a progressive to 1800 rpm and then putting it in fourth gear...

 

Running a Breville toastie maker in your car is another thing to avoid when it's raining.

 

Yes I get your point
But before you even brake the DTC diactivates the CC
I like using it and I also keep more than 2 mm of tread on my tyres

 

I find i stub my toe more often when cruise control is set. No idea why.

 

can someone name any motorway where you can go at any constant speed in normal hours for more than 10 mins

 

The further North you go, the more polite and respectful the people are, generally, I'd say. And more laid back. Hardly any nutters up here as far as I've noticed.

I spend a lot of time at 70mph, mostly in the fast lane and have yet to be undertaken, flashed at or tail gated.

 

You got delicate feet?

 

I fitted a very rudimentary, aftermarket 'cruise control' that was advertised in the motor magazines back in the late '70's.
I was told that it was easy to fit to any car, including a T2......well it was, provided you had a vivid imagination and a fully equipped workshop!
My claim to fame with this CC, was that I drove the bus from Dubai to Doha in Qatar in 1979, and I had the cruise control engaged for 2 1/2 hours continuously,as we drove on the highway between Abu Dhabi and the Saudi border.
You only saw another vehicle every ten minutes or so, if that.
Tony

 

Any french motorway except in august when the British come over here and park up for a change.

 

I use to do 600 in a van, do they make the peddles harder the heavier the vehicle?

 

coz they cost a fortune init

 

With your rubbish sterling at the moment yes.

 

I can get a fair run on the A30 to Cornwall sometimes
Until you get slowed down by a pesky
"Alternative " engined Bay in the outside lane

 

havnt noticed any difference

 

M50

 

20 miles

 

Take some heart in the fact that he will probably get a ticket anyway, the SPECS cameras have a threshold as well as time over distance. One of the guys I work with's daughter works for the transport agency, i thought for a long time that they didn't work, according to her they do anyway.

 

Takes more than ten minutes