Some buttons you just have to have 👍

7 minutes ago, unofix said:

Some buttons you just have to have 👍

Half expecting a pictures of your fly buttons, there!😀

7 minutes ago, iantt said:

Fortunately there's a proper button I can press rather than scrolling through a menu. I see there are other lka features in the cluster menu but haven't looked yet to see what they do. 

Yeah it's the same on the Mk4 Focus, the simple button is on the end of the Indicator stalk. You only need the cluster menu if you want to change from Alert to Assist, you may be able to have both, or change the intensity of the Alert and it remembers that setting the next time you enable it.

The only times I have flicked the switch on were on long Motorway journeys when I was starting to get tired and a long way from a Service Station.

When on it also gives you a wake up alert if you stop gripping the Steering wheel, so given that you have to activate it every time, and would only do so when necessary, it is not  the bad thing that some people are making it out to be, at least not the way it is implemented on the Mk4 Focus.

18 minutes ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

Half expecting a pictures of your fly buttons, there!😀

You mis-read. It says, 'Eject'... not, 'erect' LOL

I've had a warning a few times when the traffic in front of me drove off at lights and I didn't respond quickly enough and drive off. Some message came up telling me off 

 

Just now, StephenFord said:

You mis-read. It says, 'Eject'... not, 'erect' LOL

One follows the other. 

12 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

Have also had auto wipers & lights on Mk2, 3 & 4 Focus's, Vectra C and Mk6 Golf.   Haven't found any I didn't get on with so far.  I wouldn't buy a car without them myself!!

Auto wipers. That's the first thing I turned off on the car. Awful things, either 100mph across the screen for a bit of dew or light drizzle and next to nowt when it's really heavy rain.

My 2001 Puma had manual wipers, but the flip wipe had a memory....  It would remember the time interval from the manual flip and continue at that rate, I thought that was really good.

I have auto lights, wipers  and auto climate control on both the Fiesta and the Fusion, but generally operate in Manual.  THe Focus likes to switch on the A/C in certain conditions, and that just annoys me.  The other car (1992) does not have auto anything, and that is the one I prefer to drive !

Auto lights - in the tree lined roads around here, cars with their lights flashing on and off is just annoying, I would suggest that if they come on, they should stay on for much longer. 

Like a lot of drivers, auto systems have poor anticipation !

 

11 hours ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

Half expecting a pictures of your fly buttons, there!😀

Can't stand button fly myself.  Give me a zip any day!!  (No longer own any Levi's because of that!  )

1 hour ago, Wino said:

Auto wipers. That's the first thing I turned off on the car. Awful things, either 100mph across the screen for a bit of dew or light drizzle and next to nowt when it's really heavy rain.

Sounds like yours are broken tbh.  Or the screen's dirty.  Or you've got adjustable ones on the wrong setting!

I hate timed intermittent in drizzle as it's mostly scraping a dry screen!  Wrecks wiper blades, and more importantly, scratches the screen too.  I've bought a few cheap stop-gap's with manual wipers and most of them had a permanent rainbow across the screen, couldn't see a thing in bright sunlight or other people's headlights!

8 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Can't stand button fly myself.  Give me a zip any day!!  (No longer own any Levi's because of that!  )

I once had a very nasty accident with a zip. Too much technology, again!

I still have them though, just a lot more careful these days!😀

29 minutes ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

I once had a very nasty accident with a zip. Too much technology, again!

I still have them though, just a lot more careful these days!😀

" we gotta a bleeder" one of my favourite films.....Something about Mary

37 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Sounds like yours are broken tbh.  Or the screen's dirty.  Or you've got adjustable ones on the wrong setting!

I hate timed intermittent in drizzle as it's mostly scraping a dry screen!  Wrecks wiper blades, and more importantly, scratches the screen too.  I've bought a few cheap stop-gap's with manual wipers and most of them had a permanent rainbow across the screen, couldn't see a thing in bright sunlight or other people's headlights!

Neither broke or dirty, just don't get on with them and prefer the old settings of intermittent on the stalk.

6 minutes ago, Wino said:

Neither broke or dirty, just don't get on with them and prefer the old settings of intermittent on the stalk.

Not liking them is fine, personal choice.  But if they function in the way you're suggesting, completely different to my own Focus experiences, there's something wrong somewhere. 

1 hour ago, TomsFocus said:

Not liking them is fine, personal choice.  But if they function in the way you're suggesting, completely different to my own Focus experiences, there's something wrong somewhere. 

They deffo work and perhaps the settings might not be correct but I haven't faffed about with them since I switched them off on the first day of picking the car up.

3 hours ago, Wino said:

Auto wipers. That's the first thing I turned off on the car. Awful things, either 100mph across the screen for a bit of dew or light drizzle and next to nowt when it's really heavy rain.

theres a delay slide on mine so i can adjust the wipe cycle

On 10/25/2022 at 6:30 PM, StephenFord said:

Aahhh... I see your problem, you have got a 2020 car. Mine was built in 2005, when men were men, and were given the right to actually 'drive' their car using old fashioned skill, like observing what went on around them, and when setting a rotary control, it stayed there till you decide to change it. In addition to switching on your lights when it gets dark, and turning on your wipers when it gets wet, I love my car 

Yup, mine is 2020 - but I also have a 2007 car where, oddly enough, I know what the heater is set to by touch, and it doesn't move till I touch it again - ditto the blower and the ventilation rotary switches. And the lights. And the wipers. And if I pull the big lever up thats attached to the handbrake it stays on, and if I push it down it stays off. And  if I take the roof down it stays down, and if I put it up it stays up! But its window switches are in the same place as the Focus handbrake switch, which leads to some interesting moments when I swop between cars...