I have created this new topic to inform all of the dangers of using CC in wet or slippery conditions.

The claims dept have informed me about this issue.

If you leave CC on in slippery conditions you are more likely to have an accident if you aquaplane as the rear wheels will loose tracksion, the CC will kick in reving the engine to maitain what the CC was set to. As in my case, around 105klm.

So the rest is history, refer to details of my car accident

Daniel

The only way this makes sense to me, is if the cruise control reads the vehicle speed from the front wheels. Is this the case?

Scotty

horsesh!t

if you were accelerating then the cruise will not come into play

Ease up fellas this guy has just written of his car in a serious accident.

I was also under the impression that the speed was taken from the front wheels, but since spinning the wheels in the wet ive noticed that the speedo moves with the rear wheels. Though this isnt the first case I have heard of some1 coming of a wet road when cruise control was on. It has happend to a few others I know, but the reasons how the cruise control effects it im unsure

If you are in a situation with the cruise on and the T/C is activated cruise control disengages imediatly so it can't rev the engine to try and keep up road speed.

I'm not picking on the guy just giving him the mechanical facts, he was slightly accelerating himself so that takes the cruise out, simple???

Chooka

im not debateting the fact that mechanically it doesnt make sense, I happen to agree with you all. After having a horrific accident I wouldnt to have my comments labled as bullsh*t.

This topic was posted about 6 months ago.

It was an urban myth. Our cars are smart and will disengage CC once any TC even occurs.

CC is safe in the wet

Ok, ok ok so just shoot me down. I'm just trying to help others not to be in the same situation that we were in.

Even if you accelerate slightly it does override CC, but it is always on, so when you take your foot aff the accelerator CCs back on.

At the first sign of something happening, I removed my foot off the accelerator, but the engine reved higher, so that means that cc took over.

I dont give a what people think of me, all I want for people to be careful, but if you want to be a d!ckhead go ahead.