My Driver Assistance Package is missing things.

[Alex31]

I took delivery of my new Golf R the other day and have noticed the diver assistance package dose not include the traffic jam assist and emergency assist that became standard on the MY18.5 golfs...
To my understanding these became standard in the package after CW 45 2017... mine was built in CW 2 2018...
Can the dealership do a software update or is hardware missing as well???
What can I do????



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[crainger]

Last time I asked VW they said they are disabling this on AU cars. Even if you are has the required hardware dealers are not enabling it. (This was via VW Facebook so grain of salt)

Though it seems it's enabled for some.

[Rooboy]

Those items are still listed in the configurator on the website. I think I'd be looking for some kind of compensation from VW if the items you'd paid for aren't going to be enabled.

[Ozsko]

What leads you to think TJA is not activated, it has no switch and can't be turned off unless active lane guidance is turned off

[maca]

So I was thinking the exact same thing today. I only just reactivated Adaptive Lane Guidance to see how TJA works and I’m fairly confident my November 2017 build, MY18 Wolfy wagon doesn’t have it. The Volkswagen Australia website states it should, but I can’t get t to work.

From my undertanding; it should essentially steer, brake and accelerate the vehicle in slow moving traffic, and even set off again after a momentary standstill. I tested this tonight at the ICB roadworks and nope, it definitely wasn’t giving me steering wheel feedback despite having conspicuous lane markings available.

[Ozsko]

The only indication of TJA is the two green lines at bottom of the dashboard display stay green under 67kph. To activate the two green lines ACC and ALG need to be activated and a cruise speed set above 67kph. You must be in traffic and following another car and allow your car to slow down by the ACC controlling the car and matching the speed of the car in front, if you brake manually then the ACC/TJA cuts out.

[Kevlarman]

I'd be pretty pissed if after a service my car came back with less features than it left the factory with.

[maca]

The only indication of TJA is the two green lines at bottom of the dashboard display stay green under 67kph. To activate the two green lines ACC and ALG need to be activated and a cruise speed set above 67kph. You must be in traffic and following another car and allow your car to slow down by the ACC controlling the car and matching the speed of the car in front, if you brake manually then the ACC/TJA cuts out.

From what I’ve read, Traffic Jam Assist is intended for crawling speeds when the ALG and ACC is activated, below 60km/h.

I found this link that demonstrates the TJA well on a European Tiguan and I can guarantee that it doesn’t work on my car.

Edit: I just reread the article on the VWA website and it specifies that the speed needs to be set bwteeen 0 and 60 - maybe this is where we’ve been going wrong?

[DreamensioN]

Isn't traffic jam assist basically "adaptive cruise control" for under 60kph?

[Ozsko]

Isn't traffic jam assist basically "adaptive cruise control" for under 60kph?

Yes, all it adds is steering under 67kph and that is it.

[Ozsko]

From what I’ve read, Traffic Jam Assist is intended for crawling speeds when the ALG and ACC is activated, below 60km/h.

I found this link that demonstrates the TJA well on a European Tiguan and I can guarantee that it doesn’t work on my car.

Edit: I just reread the article on the VWA website and it specifies that the speed needs to be set bwteeen 0 and 60 - maybe this is where we’ve been going wrong?

That's wrong also, so much for the official source. There is a huge amount of myth & BS written on TJA and every video I have seen on it including VW videos add to the myth & BS be cause none of them are totally correct or supply all the information needed.

[maca]

That's wrong also, so much for the official source. There is a huge amount of myth & BS written on TJA and every video I have seen on it including VW videos add to the myth & BS be cause none of them are totally correct or supply all the information needed.

So, what is the correct information? My understanding of it is that it’s the regular AAC and ALG for speeds under 60 and it should come on automatically when speeds are set below 60.

[Ozsko]

So, what is the correct information? My understanding of it is that it’s the regular AAC and ALG for speeds under 60 and it should come on automatically when speeds are set below 60.

The speed can be set above 67kph and TJA works fine, why they advised it must be set under 60kph is anyone's guess. I wrote this previously and there is still stuff that looking back on it could be added....





There are many misunderstood facts on TJA.....

TJA only controls the vehicle under about 67 kph

The only thing that TJA adds to the control that ACC has is the ability to self steer for 13 second blocks under 67 kph

ACC will stop the car and restart the car within its limitations but it is not TJA because it does not have the self steer activated under 65 kph

There is no button or control to activate TJA

The only indication that TJA is active is the two green lines on the bottom of the digital dashboard

The only way to activate TJA is to have ACC & ALG activated and exceed 67 kph

If your car does not have ACTIVE LANE GUIDANCE activated then TJA is not possible in your car

Active Lane Guidance can be a activated via VCDS but TJA cannot be activated this way

TJA cannot be activated by VCDS, it requires a different approach

To activate it, first turn on ACC, turn on Active Lane Guidance, exceed 65 - 68 kph. Set ACC to the speed you want, the two guidance lines turn from orange to green and the car will self steer WHILE THE LINES remain green. As the car slows down if those two lines remain green under 67 kph then TJA is active and the car will self steer in 13 second blocks. It will also stop and start within the limitations of the system. If the vehicle comes to a stop being controlled by ACC and the car in front resumes within three seconds of your car stopping your car will automatically move off and follow the car in front. if the stop is longer than three seconds then the driver has to press resume on the steering wheel or lightly press the throttle and the car will move off with no further input from the driver. TJA will then control the car spacing from all surrounding vehicles in thirteen second blocks and then the driver has to apply some pressure to the steering wheel and the car will then self steer for another thirteen seconds.

I have found that it works well within its limitations but works best in slow processional non stopping traffic at low speeds. ACC then takes over for faster traffic and does the same Job at higher speeds and that works well on multi lane roads. ACC does not work well on single lane roads at higher speeds as it can't read the roads well enough. ACC works well on those types of roads in processional traffic so I am guessing it has some sort of follow the leader function built in to it.

[Tinhillterror]

I’d rather drive the car myself to be honest. Yeah ACC is great out on the freeway, but do you really need TJA?

I find it so hard to know what I’ve set and how to change it while driving it’s actually more dangerous for me personally. Accidentally set speed limiter rather than ACC, ended up stuck doing 80kmh on Eastlink till I get shut it off.

Is there a way to disable/delete speed limiter?

[Ozsko]

I took delivery of my new Golf R the other day and have noticed the diver assistance package dose not include the traffic jam assist and emergency assist that became standard on the MY18.5 golfs...
To my understanding these became standard in the package after CW 45 2017... mine was built in CW 2 2018...
Can the dealership do a software update or is hardware missing as well???
What can I do????



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I am interested in whether you resolved this??