Why is the shifting of this transmission the worst I have seen in 50 year? How long will it be before this garbage kills someone? I have 2014 Jeep Cherokee with adaptive cruise that perfectly. It makes you want to use it all of the time. The Mercedes cruise is going to kill somebody if already hasn't.

 

LOL

 

How many people has this transmission ALREADY killed!? The humanity.

 

Who said the transmission will kill someone? Please re-read my statement.

KILINH, Please explain what you find so humorous about a faulty adaptive cruise not stopping for a car stopped at a red light.

Please go out and try other brands of autos. I believe that you will not find a worse Adaptive cruise in any car and at least 25 that are better than Mercedes. But you if you tell us there is one you
should list the year, make, and model.

Just so you guys can go un-tie your undies, the GLC AMG 63 is the fastest best handling small SUV and I believe the only one still with a V-8 which is why I bought it.
My point is that just because a car has a big 3 pointed start in the grille, it can still have a lot things wrong, backwards or just straight out dumb. Face it as a daily driver
this car leaves a lot to be desired.

 

Excluding Tesla, as far as I have seen, other manufactures talk about adaptive cruise as an assistance or safety system.

I have a C63S with adaptive cruise and use it pretty frequently. Ok, so its not great on curving roads and can relatively frequently not get the lines in the road (live in the foothills of the Sierra's so they do curve pretty sharply). But out on wider and straighter roads it works well. I find that the distance control is smooth and predictable and it does bring the car to a complete stop in heavy stop / start traffic. Used it the other day and it was great after a 2 hour drive.

My wife just handed back her 2016 Malibu premier which also had adaptive cruise. Worked OK, but no way near as good. It was abrupt, sharp to brake and while it did start moving again on its own, it always left massive gaps in traffic. For anyone on busy CA roads, thats never going to work! To be honest, she never used it and I only used it occasionally on less busy roads. Oh, and it was terrible when coming to pass a car on the freeway. Would drag the speed down badly and even when indicating it would still slow down. At least the Merc system keeps constant speed as you change lanes.

I understand the latest Nissan ProPlusAssist system is way better, but the one from a year or two ago on an Altima sucked. Terrible and way worse than the Chevrolet system. Used it once on a hire car, never again.

As for the Merc system, it can be adjusted for what you want. Not sure about the GLC, but I have a couple of buttons to control the behavior and I can also go into the settings for what I what it to do. Have you got everything turned on? I think you can disable aspects of it to fit your requirements. And if its really not working, its under warranty so take it back!

 

MB video on Distronic Plus

https://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/owner...007c184335RCRD

Forgot, the brake assist thing is called PRE-SAFE Brake. Its in the user guide, page 74:

https://www.mbusa.com/content/dam/mb...n_Operator.pdf

Mine has Distronic Plus, Pre-safe brake and the steering thing... why oh why do Mercedes call things strange names. And please, someone correct me if I have the incorrect names.

 

Not only will I re read it, I’ll re paste it!

”Why is the shifting of this transmission the worst I have seen in 50 year? How long will it be before this garbage kills someone?”

 

you're not even in the right forum.

form more cohesive thoughts and less emotional garbage please.

 

If you are going to paste............................paste the whole paragraph.

 

Thats not how English works. Also wrong forum.

 

Whoever uses cruise control? I'm an old fart who drives a lot of miles, and I haven't used it in over 20 years. These cars are supposed to be fun to drive. That's why we're hanging in the C63 forum, and not the forum for kid haulers.

 

Thanks for the helpful response and for providing your experiences with the Chevy system. The way my distronic responds I do use the twist dial on the end of the of the control, close up the distance to try to keep up with traffic and then increase the distance to make it stop with out waiting till the last moment. The steering part of the system works well so well that I turn it off so I can change lanes smoothly. But the main glaring fault is that this system is as blind as deer in the headlights. It cannot see a stopped vehicle. My 2014 Jeep Cherokee would stop for garbage cans at the edge of the road on garbage day, this was after I got hit by a drunk driver. The "eye" needed to be re-aimed. After that it worked fine again. Now I have 2019 Cherokee and happy to say the adaptive cruise still
works as good as the old one. I expected that a 2019 $86,000 Mercedes to have an adaptive cruise that works as good as a 2014 $ 26,000 Jeep Cherokee. Thanks again for the help.

 

Alexasa if you are going to reprimand someone you should get your facts straight. Do some research. Tesla is Not using the Mercedes distronic system. However what is the same is the drive train of the C 63 and the GLC 63. Sorry Dorothy but Mercedes isn't perfect anymore. And Mercedes customers don't tell them of about some of these problems, they will never get fixed.
Oh one other thing, you have very poor sentence structure.

 

That must be National Rum Day sentence structure!