I took my car on a little road trip this past weekend. From Dallas to Houston. On Hgwy 45 the speed limit is 70 MPH for the most part, and everyone was hauling ass at 80-85 MPH the whole way. During the trip I drove about that fast consistanly. After being on the road for about 2 hours or so, at those speeds, I got some strange things coming up on my Display.
Instead of displaying how many more miles I could Travel with my gas, It displayed " 2:00 h "
It was Flashing in Yellow and stayed that way for the remaining hour of the trip and then on the display where it would normally tell you the temp outside....I kept having "MPG" with a circle around it come up in yellow along with a soft alarm sound...Then I realized it did that only when I would go over 85 MPH.... Anyone know what all that means?
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I guess you don't have a manual...it explains all of that stuff better than I can, but the warning that you got is something you accidentally set. You can set it to notify you any time you go over a certain speed...I guess Audi knew that the cruise control was going to crap out so they added that feature...? I don't really know how useful that feature is, but when I get home, I can look in my manual for how to reset it.
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1999 A4 2.8 Quattro Avant
SpeedTuning chip, painted lowers, black e-codes, 4300K, 20% tint, and face lift fogs.
its made to help you not speed, once you hit the mph its set to, it will beep at you indicating you past the max mph you wanted to go. i use it every now and again...
Sineo is correct, the B7 has it, not sure about the B6, butmy B5 didn't have the speed alarms. There are two levels of over speed warning. The yellow MPG is the visual followed by the soft tone at a couple of miles per hour over it's setpoint. At ten miles over the setpoint it has a much nastier tone and will disengage the cruise if it is on. The setpoint is driver controlled by the buttons on the right side of the wheel, but without going to owners manual I can't remember which one or the sequence. You set it at the speed your currently driving that you don't want to exceed. I think holding the left button of the right group in for more than three seconds turns it OFF. I experienced it the first day of B7 ownership, but I was barely doing 80. It is in the owner's manual, with a better explaination than I just gave you.
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Sineo is correct, the B7 has it, not sure about the B6, butmy B5 didn't have the speed alarms. There are two levels of over speed warning. The yellow MPG is the visual followed by the soft tone at a couple of miles per hour over it's setpoint. At ten miles over the setpoint it has a much nastier tone and will disengage the cruise if it is on. The setpoint is driver controlled by the buttons on the right side of the wheel, but without going to owners manual I can't remember which one or the sequence. You set it at the speed your currently driving that you don't want to exceed. I think holding the left button of the right group in for more than three seconds turns it OFF. I experienced it the first day of B7 ownership, but I was barely doing 80. It is in the owner's manual, with a better explaination than I just gave you.
my 01 has the speed alarm. im pretty sure most later b5 models have them.
my bad, mine was 99.5 and it didn't have one. Or if it did, it was never set or it was set above 130 as it never went off and I never went over 130 with it either.
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2006 A4 2.0TQ Quartz/Ebony stock at the moment
If you're not living on the edge . . . you're taking up too much space!
This is from my manual, but I have a B5 so there may be some differences. You can cancel the speed warning by pressing and holding the "test" button for the Auto-Check feature (while driving faster than 3 mph...good call on that one Audi) until that same symbol appears with a line through it. If you push that button again while driving, you'll set a new speed warning. So, basically, don't push that button while driving.
On my car, the test button is the one to the left of the information display.
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1999 A4 2.8 Quattro Avant
SpeedTuning chip, painted lowers, black e-codes, 4300K, 20% tint, and face lift fogs.
1st Road trip~~ Got a few Questions!!
