PhilipM
New member
I drive pretty much everywhere in Sport mode, even in the wet and very wet. I once selected Wet mode when I got caught out in a snow storm near Lyon about a year ago, and found it useful.
So I'm happy that it's there if conditions require it.
My gripe is with the Wet mode alert. It's axiomatic that in order to drive I have to be able to see. So I can see if it's sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy or icy and I can see and feel what the road surface is like.
So yesterday driving back from Toulouse to Andorra largely on RN roads the rain was heavy at best. I could see that. I was using Sport mode and the car felt surefooted all the time. Yet from time to time I'd get a ping and the message to switch to wet mode. If I need a rain sensor and computer to tell me how to drive a 450 hp car in the wet I shouldn't be driving it.
Is it there for product liability issues in the US? You're almost bound to get some stupid American suing because they lost it by driving too fast for the conditions.
More practically - and rant over - can I switch the bloody alert thing off?
So I'm happy that it's there if conditions require it.
My gripe is with the Wet mode alert. It's axiomatic that in order to drive I have to be able to see. So I can see if it's sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy or icy and I can see and feel what the road surface is like.
So yesterday driving back from Toulouse to Andorra largely on RN roads the rain was heavy at best. I could see that. I was using Sport mode and the car felt surefooted all the time. Yet from time to time I'd get a ping and the message to switch to wet mode. If I need a rain sensor and computer to tell me how to drive a 450 hp car in the wet I shouldn't be driving it.
Is it there for product liability issues in the US? You're almost bound to get some stupid American suing because they lost it by driving too fast for the conditions.
More practically - and rant over - can I switch the bloody alert thing off?
