13-09-2011, 04:16pm
OK here goes with the list of whizz bang gizmos. I am aware that the rest of you may be aware of all or some of these, I wasn't aware of any of them as I have been out of circulation for 3 months between late April and July without forum access, and when you come back from 2 weeks away and find 300 new posts to read imagine what it like after 3 months away. The "mark Forum read" button get hit!
OK,
I have already mentioned the follow me home reversing lights.
Next, when you set the cruise control a CO2 emissions graph appears where the little display screen is in the dash, it disappears after 3-4 minutes
Then, if you have the electric boot release it doesn't just go up and down on the motor, you can set the limit that it opens to so you won't bash the tailgate on a lower garage ceiling. Once set it remembers that limit and always opens to there. BUT when you open the tailgate by remote you can stop it anywhere on its journey by just holding on to it, but it won't remember that once. Also if you have set a low setting - i.e. not at the fully open limit, then you can just push the tailgate a little and it will motor up to the full limit. Once the tailgate has got almost to the bottom limit it stops and does what RRS owners are used to and "soft closes". I also mentioned in another post that the tailgate has a very sensitive sensor to prevent the parcel try being damaged and I assume also so you cannot shut you hound's tail in the tailgate..................
Then there is a Winter Park setting for the front wipers. In the dash board menu there is a setting that you can enable that will cause the wipers to stop in sort of mid sweep so when you start to warm the screen they are under the heated screen elements and in the blower coverage.
One thing I would like would be a frost setting that will disable the auto-on wipers when the screen starts to freeze. Last winter I got a scratch on the FFRR's screen thanks to forgetting that the wipers were set to auto-on and they swept ice across the screen and also tore the blade rubbers........ now a temperature sensitive switch to disable the auto on wipers would avoid this happening. I cannot be the only person who has forgotten to disable the auto-on wiper function on a frosty night.
OK,
I have already mentioned the follow me home reversing lights.
Next, when you set the cruise control a CO2 emissions graph appears where the little display screen is in the dash, it disappears after 3-4 minutes
Then, if you have the electric boot release it doesn't just go up and down on the motor, you can set the limit that it opens to so you won't bash the tailgate on a lower garage ceiling. Once set it remembers that limit and always opens to there. BUT when you open the tailgate by remote you can stop it anywhere on its journey by just holding on to it, but it won't remember that once. Also if you have set a low setting - i.e. not at the fully open limit, then you can just push the tailgate a little and it will motor up to the full limit. Once the tailgate has got almost to the bottom limit it stops and does what RRS owners are used to and "soft closes". I also mentioned in another post that the tailgate has a very sensitive sensor to prevent the parcel try being damaged and I assume also so you cannot shut you hound's tail in the tailgate..................
Then there is a Winter Park setting for the front wipers. In the dash board menu there is a setting that you can enable that will cause the wipers to stop in sort of mid sweep so when you start to warm the screen they are under the heated screen elements and in the blower coverage.
One thing I would like would be a frost setting that will disable the auto-on wipers when the screen starts to freeze. Last winter I got a scratch on the FFRR's screen thanks to forgetting that the wipers were set to auto-on and they swept ice across the screen and also tore the blade rubbers........ now a temperature sensitive switch to disable the auto on wipers would avoid this happening. I cannot be the only person who has forgotten to disable the auto-on wiper function on a frosty night.