SO I'm almost in the fold, finances sorted, found a car, checks out on HPI , haggled price, , going to have it checked over. But just in double checking the spec, i have 2 discrepancies.

1. The adaptive cruise, spec says the car has it, but the steering wheel (from a straight on photo) does not appear to have the 2 buttons on the left side for adaptive cruise.

2. The tow bar, it says it has Tow Prep HTH whatever that means, dealer says no tow bar, does anyone know if it could just be a case of buy the receiver and westfalia tow bar or could somebody have removed the rear supports altogether ?

You'll see on a pic of the rear that it's all there and should have a square plug covering the receiver .
You'll need a tow bar and wiring kit if it's not in the plastic case inside the car .
A ford wiring kit works apparently .

No idea on the cruise differences

You can just about see the square on these pics of our car .

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Heres the steering wheel controls



Heres the rear with no visible towing equipment at all :

Hi Eric

The steering wheel pic shows set plus and minus, cancel and resume. Those are the cruise settings.

The adaptive is via the main cluster menu - you need to enable forward alert (front radar) and by doing so, you enable adaptive cruise at the same time cos it knows it's following someone (or not) Ash
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Also - the Tow Bar prep means it has the wiring already run to the boot area (rear right as you look at it)

Mine was the same so I had to buy the sub frame assembly and bar/ball plus the electric loom to connect up to the pre wired box in the boot. Plenty out there to be honest and can be fitted fairly easily - (bumper off, remove the tow eye brackets, replace with sub frame, (bolt on) and add the writing loom.) I did it but suspect it should be a 2 man job cos it's rather heavy.! Ash
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Cheers for all the help, that certainly clarifies it hah, the 2010 model seems to have more controls than a space shuttle .

Its these 2 lads on the left of this image missing, what do they do ?

So once you have enabled the adaptive part (forward warning) and set the cruise, you use those two to alter the distance you follow the car in front by. Obviously the top one reduces the gap and the bottom one increases the gap.

IIRC you have 4 distance settings - when you press them you see an indicator on the dash cluster from 1 to 4 arrows to show what gap to keep to.

It's actually very good and does keep the right distance behind and "follow" the car infront. The only bit they haven't got quite right is if the RR has slowed down due to a vehicle in front doing less than your specified cruise speed speed and the followed car moves out of the way, the RR takes a long time to realise it's moved before accelerating back to your set speed.

With the IID tool you can also enable the JAG Cruise with Queue.. This will actually stop the RR in queueing traffic with a message that tells you the car is being held - dab the throttle to resume. If you just use the normal adaptive cruise you will be asked to intervene if the speed falls below a certain speed (10 or 20 mph - can't remember which)

Have fun Ash
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Eric Cartman wrote:

Cheers for all the help, that certainly clarifies it hah, the 2010 model seems to have more controls than a space shuttle .

Its these 2 lads on the left of this image missing, what do they do ?

As per MZ's post - they may be an option - My 2010 VSE has them but not all I guess. Ash
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The car im looking at has adaptive cruise as per the build sheet, but lacks those 2 switches for controlling the gap. Would that make any sense

Are you sure the buttons are not there because if you sit in the normal driving position they are not really visible without leaning to the left, they are almost hidden behind the other buttons and you can soon miss them Agueroooooooooo. 93-20
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