Lane departure warning
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Installing a trailer light proxy is the work-around I was thinking about. While I find the blind spot monitor useful, losing its function would be a small sacrifice for permanently disabling the LKA.
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Good idea. So I assume that it worked well and disabled lane departure? If so I guess it also disabled blind spot monitoring? I could live with lane departure but not blind spot...too used it.
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I can confirm this disables the blind spot monitor, but I would like someone to confirm that it also disables the lane departure (another post indicates the the GLE disables both with trailer lights connected). I hacked the lane departure system about 6 months ago such that it automatically shuts itself off, and reversing the hack in order to test the trailer lights is not practicable. I don't need this trailer light solution now, but I'm curious to know if it kills the lane departure. I'm too paranoid to rely on the blind spot monitor and can't unlearn looking over my shoulder, so I'd certainly use the trailer light plug-in if not for the hack.
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I never tried Sport + until I read your post 
Now it's hard for me to drive in anything other tan Sport +. Although my neighbors complained mildly about the increased exhaust sounds. I like my neighbors, so I'll try to remember to leave it in C until I get out of the neighborhood
Anyway, what caught my eye the most in your post was LKA being turned off in Sport +. Are you sure that LKA is turned off? When I put my 2020 G 63 in Sport + the red light on the LKA button remains on. I assume this means that LKA was not disabled when I choose Sport +. Does your LKA light turn off when you switch to Sport +?
Now it's hard for me to drive in anything other tan Sport +. Although my neighbors complained mildly about the increased exhaust sounds. I like my neighbors, so I'll try to remember to leave it in C until I get out of the neighborhood Anyway, what caught my eye the most in your post was LKA being turned off in Sport +. Are you sure that LKA is turned off? When I put my 2020 G 63 in Sport + the red light on the LKA button remains on. I assume this means that LKA was not disabled when I choose Sport +. Does your LKA light turn off when you switch to Sport +?
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I never tried Sport + until I read your post Now it's hard for me to drive in anything other tan Sport +. Although my neighbors complained mildly about the increased exhaust sounds. I like my neighbors, so I'll try to remember to leave it in C until I get out of the neighborhood
Anyway, what caught my eye the most in your post was LKA being turned off in Sport +. Are you sure that LKA is turned off? When I put my 2020 G 63 in Sport + the red light on the LKA button remains on. I assume this means that LKA was not disabled when I choose Sport +. Does your LKA light turn off when you switch to Sport +?
Now it's hard for me to drive in anything other tan Sport +. Although my neighbors complained mildly about the increased exhaust sounds. I like my neighbors, so I'll try to remember to leave it in C until I get out of the neighborhood Anyway, what caught my eye the most in your post was LKA being turned off in Sport +. Are you sure that LKA is turned off? When I put my 2020 G 63 in Sport + the red light on the LKA button remains on. I assume this means that LKA was not disabled when I choose Sport +. Does your LKA light turn off when you switch to Sport +?
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This isn't really all that difficult to figure out. Observe your instrument panel when you start the vehicle. The LKA icon (a vehicle between 2 lane markers) appears with the word "Standard" or "Adaptive", and is active by default. When you press the LKA button with the red LED indicator, the instrument display tells you to hold the button until the red LED goes off, and then advises you that LKA is Off. Same with Engine (ECO) Start/Stop -- when disabled (by moving the driving mode to one other than Comfort and ECO), the "A" OFF icon appears after the LKA indication sequence, but then goes away. Thereafter, the "A" OFF appears about 1 second after the vehicle is brought to a full stop (in case you can't figure out that the engine stopped). The "A" button next to the engine start-stop button is supposed to disable this function, but this has never worked on my 2019 G550. I plan to ask the dealer about this next week.
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I’ve said it before but after the first annual service lka has become a lot less obtrusive . I’m not sure what they did perhaps software update (which I know they’ve done probably more than once) but it’s a lot more compliant when it interjects
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This isn't really all that difficult to figure out. Observe your instrument panel when you start the vehicle. The LKA icon (a vehicle between 2 lane markers) appears with the word "Standard" or "Adaptive", and is active by default. When you press the LKA button with the red LED indicator, the instrument display tells you to hold the button until the red LED goes off, and then advises you that LKA is Off. Same with Engine (ECO) Start/Stop -- when disabled (by moving the driving mode to one other than Comfort and ECO), the "A" OFF icon appears after the LKA indication sequence, but then goes away. Thereafter, the "A" OFF appears about 1 second after the vehicle is brought to a full stop (in case you can't figure out that the engine stopped). The "A" button next to the engine start-stop button is supposed to disable this function, but this has never worked on my 2019 G550. I plan to ask the dealer about this next week.
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The owner's manual is really not clear regarding the modes that exist in the G550 versus the G63, and even less clear as to the differences between the modes. The G550 has Comfort (the default mode on startup), Sport, Individual and ECO. I haven't played around with modes much, and usually flip it into Sport mode in order to avoid the Engine start/stop annoyance. I think ECO mode uses the Engine start/stop feature and the Camtronic system that shuts down some of the cylinders when cruising at highway speeds on flat terrain.
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The owner's manual is really not clear regarding the modes that exist in the G550 versus the G63, and even less clear as to the differences between the modes. The G550 has Comfort (the default mode on startup), Sport, Individual and ECO. I haven't played around with modes much, and usually flip it into Sport mode in order to avoid the Engine start/stop annoyance. I think ECO mode uses the Engine start/stop feature and the Camtronic system that shuts down some of the cylinders when cruising at highway speeds on flat terrain.
