Adaptive cruise control e class

[Petrol Only]

Does anyone know if the current e class comes with adaptive cruise as standard?
Also does anyone know how to find out what options are fitted.

Thanks

[quinny100]

ACC is not standard - you need the Driving Assistance Plus package to get it. It’s around a £1700 option and it’s pretty rare on used cars.

You can spot cars that have it - the front grille badge is smooth and there is a means to set the separation distance - on earlier cars you turn the end of the cruise stalk, not sure about later cars with the newer steering wheel.

Merc dealers can give you a spec from a registration number.

[Ron240]

I was just speaking about this in another thread.....it is quite mean of Mercedes not to offer adaptive cruise control(Distronic as they call it) as standard on higher trim specs, instead only including it as part of a pack along with other features that are not nearly as useful.
The A/CLA/C classes are exactly the same.

[Petrol Only]

Thank you guys very helpful.

Also you tight bd's Mercedes

[PSRG]

quinny100 said:

ACC is not standard - you need the Driving Assistance Plus package to get it. It’s around a £1700 option and it’s pretty rare on used cars.

You can spot cars that have it - the front grille badge is smooth and there is a means to set the separation distance - on earlier cars you turn the end of the cruise stalk, not sure about later cars with the newer steering wheel.

Merc dealers can give you a spec from a registration number.

You set and adjust it using the controls on the right hand side of the steering wheel
Big toggle in the middle to turn on and adjust speed
Right hand smaller toggle to cancel / resume
Left hand small toggle to adjust separation distance

[PSRG]

And since the Driver Assistance Pack includes Active Lane Keeping Assist it’s possible (though perhaps not recommend...) to take your hands of the wheel and the car will steer itself. It gets grumpy after a while and asks you to put them back on the wheel, but there’s plenty of time to take this:




The 70 that looks like a speed sign is the limit on the road, as read by the camera. The grey 76 under it to the right is the speed that the adaptive cruise is set to. The car’s slowed to 69 as indicated in the speedo, but it also shows the speed set and current speed using the blue and white triangles on the arc round the speedo.

Edited by PSRG on Friday 26th June 18:21