Hi guys..

I am new RRS TDV8 HSE owner and a new forum member. So, having a car for five days and noted a few bugs:

1. Radio/computer - After starting the car ( I always wait for cca. 6 sec to upload computer ) there was something wrong with the radio, the sound was interrupted every second (music, interruption, music, interr….) and on the screen was frozen LR screen template. After turning engine off, key out, locking and unlocking it, key in, contact, waiting 10 sec, starting the engine it worked !!! This happened twice in 5 days!?

2. Cruise control – on my first long trip I set the cruise control on 140 km/h at the motorway. Everything ran perfectly until going uphill when car started to decelerate slightly down to 120 km/h (on an uphill distance of 2km).. Passing the hill top and going downhill started to accelerate back to 140 km/h. Same story on the next uphill.

Sounds familiar??? RRS TDV8 HSE

Welcome to the forums NastyDuck.

Sorry I cannot help on the Satnav/Radio problem.

With the ACC - if I run on the country roads round home on ACC there are some corners that seem to confuse it
and it will slow the car even though there isn't another car in range of the radar. Some of these bends have safety barriers and I suspect that the ACC is picking up stray signals bouncing off the barrier which confuses the computer. This was very graphically demonstrated by Mercedes when they attempted to demonstrate their ACC in a lab and ended up smashing up something like 5 S class cars before they gave up. Their answer for demo-ing the system was to put a plank of wood on the ground and telling the driver that when he passed it he had to apply the brakes as hard as possible, over-riding the cruise control! The ACC signals were bouncing around inside the test facility confusing the computer.
Your steep hill may also be doing the same thing.

I have learned the safety value of the ACC as well in the recent very dense freezing fog we had here just before Christmas - driving along the long main trunk road in visibility of about 100ft with the cruise set at about 40 and the forward alert distance ahead set to maximum the yellow light on the dash came on and then the brakes started to apply automatically................................... but I couldn't see anything in the mist. I reduced the range down to minimum and the car eventually slowed down to 20mph and I had to disengage the cruise. Then I saw what the ACC had detected - an unlighted tractor and trailer doing 15 mph in the fog! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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It's good to know it does work some of the time. That Merc demo was a right balls up Footage of it is on Youtube I think. 

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... but I have Cruise control not ACC! RRS TDV8 HSE

Your TDv8 has conventional cruise control and not the Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC)? No Forward Alert? Must be something market specific for your area as TDV8's in this part of Europe get adaptive cruise as standard.
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I had the issue also with the music and it appeared to be caused by the phone I had paired over Bluetooth.

Remove the pairing by deleting the car from your phone and turn of the car, lock it, wait 60s, and unlock it.

60s is for the Bluetooth in the car to fully shutdown.

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...Tim in Scotland - yes, i have just CC not ACC. TDV8 is not equipped, as standard, with it at our market.

...Phantom - have no car phone had in my previous car but not used often, so, not missing it

Probably have everything else possible.. ok, most of it ... It is a pity not having an ACC.

Just for info ... The official LR dealer had it in stock so I bought the car as it was/is... RRS TDV8 HSE

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Hello Nastyduck and welcome to the forum.

Just a quick question on the cruise control problem, were you using the steptronic gearbox whilst cruising at 140 kmh? Arctic Frost TDV6 SE. Aspen Leather, Cherry Wood, Privacy Glass, PTI, Tow Pack, Mudflaps, Tasmods, a new Fuelflap, a RRSport.co.uk umbrella in the boot & a RRSport.co.uk sticker on the rear glass.
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TB wrote:

Hello Nastyduck and welcome to the forum.

Just a quick question on the cruise control problem, were you using the steptronic gearbox whilst cruising at 140 kmh?

Also, was the hill so steep that 140kph would be unachievable even with the cruise off and driving it normally? TDV8 HSE in Java/Ebony with Zebrano Wood, RSE, Hybrid TV, and a few other bells and whistles.

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landroverstormer wrote:

Also, was the hill so steep that 140kph would be unachievable even with the cruise off and driving it normally?

No, no.. a normal not steep uphill on a motorway where you can easy achieve max or near max speed... Tried again yesterday but same story.. will take it to the LR dealer to solve the problem... hope so...  RRS TDV8 HSE

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shmoogle wrote:

Please let us know what they find out

landroverstormer wrote:

Also, was the hill so steep that 140kph would be unachievable even with the cruise off and driving it normally?

I'd love to see a main road where the TDv8 couldn't manage 140kph. Squillions of torque and this mutha simply flattens hills as if gravity were a mere technicality  RRS TDv8 HSE Rimini
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