Speed warning drives me crazy

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The fact you can't permanently switch this off is stupid because it simply isn't fit for purpose.
1) All around town there are 20mph limit streets of the man 30/40mph road. The car is constantly picking these up and thinking the whole road is 20mph, then it starts binging at me.
2) Several times when I've entered a motorway at the first junction it doesn't recognise it as a motorway and retains the limit of the previous road for miles. This happens every time on 2 motorways near me, 1 of them at both ends.

I know I can **** about switching it off every time I enter the car, but the fact I need to do that because it's not fit for purpose is a joke!
Can it be switched off with vcds or odb11?

 

[NWHighlander]

I share your feelings.
It is a big annoyance when road repair crews post say a 30 limit and don't put a delimit at the end, one particular example near me means I have to drive some miles with b-gger pinging away.

Mike

 

[JKP]

I know I can **** about switching it off every time I enter the car, but the fact I need to do that because it's not fit for purpose is a joke!
Can it be switched off with vcds or odb11?

At least OBD11 website says you could do it. At the moment there isn't much anything else you can do to the facelift model, at least yet.

I think it's somewhat funny that it's a mandatory equipment these days but every car maker knows it has to be easily disabled because it really isn't fit for purpose.

Can't understand people who keep the speed limit based cruise control on, since it's not figuring the speed limit out any better. The worst case is when it suddenly drops from the map and thinks it's off-road and instantly slows down to 30 km/h. One fella told about his Skoda doing that sometimes and it sound very dangerous especially if you're on a busy highway. Also only very few cars let you adjust if you want it to correct the speedo innaccuracy.

 

[Sparks43]

The fact you can't permanently switch this off is stupid because it simply isn't fit for purpose.
1) All around town there are 20mph limit streets of the man 30/40mph road. The car is constantly picking these up and thinking the whole road is 20mph, then it starts binging at me.
2) Several times when I've entered a motorway at the first junction it doesn't recognise it as a motorway and retains the limit of the previous road for miles. This happens every time on 2 motorways near me, 1 of them at both ends.

I know I can **** about switching it off every time I enter the car, but the fact I need to do that because it's not fit for purpose is a joke!
Can it be switched off with vcds or odb11?

I thought that could be switched off in the MMI unless they've changed it as that wasn't a legal requirement like Lane Assist etc

 

[Chris2025]

I thought that could be switched off in the MMI unless they've changed it as that wasn't a legal requirement like Lane Assist etc

Yes it can. I've got into the habit of going into the menus to switch off lane assist and speed warning every time I enter the car.

On that topic, I know that the lane assist can be switched off my pressing the button on the end of the indicator stalk, but I read somewhere that there is a similar shortcut for the speed warning? It was to do with allocating that menu option to a favourite, or something.

 

[Sparks43]

Yes it can. I've got into the habit of going into the menus to switch off lane assist and speed warning every time I enter the car.

On that topic, I know that the lane assist can be switched off my pressing the button on the end of the indicator stalk, but I read somewhere that there is a similar shortcut for the speed warning? It was to do with allocating that menu option to a favourite, or something.

Lane Assist comes back every ignition recycle but I thought the speed warning could be off permanently didn't think that recycled - It certainly didn't on my 2020 8Y S3

You can set favourites as well, but not sure if it's restricted to certain options but worth a go

 

[/dev/null]

Yeah, it can be switched off in the MMI, but it resets every time you restart the ignition. It's not a huge problem switching it off, but I do lots of small journeys so it does become pretty tedious! Plus having to switch the VC screen to trip timer because that also resets (nearly) every time you restart the car.

 

[Sparks43]

Yeah, it can be switched off in the MMI, but it resets every time you restart the ignition. It's not a huge problem switching it off, but I do lots of small journeys so it does become pretty tedious! Plus having to switch the VC screen to trip timer because that also resets (nearly) every time you restart the car.

That's annoying it never used to reset - I assume you have the facelift or pre-facelift but with updated software

 

[JKP]

Both speed warning and lane assist are back on after every ignition by default. Only difference should be that the pre-FL cars are spared of the speed warning crap. You could use OBD11 on pre-FL cars to make the lane assist to remember the last setting. Post-FL you should be able to do that to the speed warning but not the lane assist, at least for now.

The star button on the steering wheel can be set to disable the speed warning only by one push. What I don't know is how well the car remembers that setting... AFAIK the "loading presonal settings" problem is still there and might cause settings to be lost at times. I'll be wiser when I'll get my new car, which should be right before September.

 

[Sparks43]

Both speed warning and lane assist are back on after every ignition by default. Only difference should be that the pre-FL cars are spared of the speed warning crap. You could use OBD11 on pre-FL cars to make the lane assist to remember the last setting. Post-FL you should be able to do that to the speed warning but not the lane assist, at least for now.

The star button on the steering wheel can be set to disable the speed warning only by one push. What I don't know is how well the car remembers that setting... AFAIK the "loading presonal settings" problem is still there and might cause settings to be lost at times. I'll be wiser when I'll get my new car, which should be right before September.

Never had to turn it off on mine as was off as default and it never came on (UK) - 2020 8Y S3 so something has changed clearly

 

[/dev/null]

Yeah, mine is post FL, built June 2025, and it resets after every ignition cycle. I'm tempted to buy odb11, but it seems a lot given I only want to change 1 setting and it's maybe not even guaranteed to work. Plus I really do like using the predictive cruise control, but given it's linked to the speed limit detection, that is also pretty flaky because it seems far too sensitive at picking up limits from side streets or other things (it randomly picked up a 10mph from somewhere the other day!). It also frustratingly doesn't seem to detect the limits on overhead gantry's on smart motorways.
It's so frustrating, it has the potential to be a really useful feature, but it's just got a few too many shortcomings at present.

 

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I share your feelings.
It is a big annoyance when road repair crews post say a 30 limit and don't put a delimit at the end, one particular example near me means I have to drive some miles with b-gger pinging away.

Mike

Yeah, mine picks up the 20 limit from a side street near me and keeps it the whole way down the road for about 3 miles

 

[fatherted11]

The star button on the steering wheel can be set to disable the speed warning only by one push. What I don't know is how well the car remembers that setting... AFAIK the "loading presonal settings" problem is still there and might cause settings to be lost at times. I'll be wiser when I'll get my new car, which should be right before September.

Unfortunately the star button can't be set to disable the speed warning on the FL cars. It has a few options but most are pretty useless.

Yeah, it can be switched off in the MMI, but it resets every time you restart the ignition. It's not a huge problem switching it off, but I do lots of small journeys so it does become pretty tedious! Plus having to switch the VC screen to trip timer because that also resets (nearly) every time you restart the car.

The VC resetting is also really annoying. Whenever I set it to display the Sat Nav, it resets to display the Date and Time the next time I start the car. If I set it to display the turbo boost, it reset to display the lap timer. Obviously a software bug but no fix in sight.

 

[Vertigo1]

I'm presuming this is a FL issue as it's permanently off in my '23 PFL.

 

[fatherted11]

Yea it's the new EU regulations applying to all cars made from mid-2024 onwards. All "safety" systems have to be turned on by default.

 

[/dev/null]

The VC resetting is also really annoying. Whenever I set it to display the Sat Nav, it resets to display the Date and Time the next time I start the car. If I set it to display the turbo boost, it reset to display the lap timer. Obviously a software bug but no fix in sight.

Yeah that's my other bugbear. I like to display the trip computer but it resets back to the time/date display after restarting. Not always though! And I've so far not been able to work out any pattern! Sometimes it keeps it overnight, sometimes within an hour or two, other times it'll reset in both these situations.

 

[Chris2025]

I was watching a review of the face lifted 1-Series the other day, and the guy said that a long-press of the cruise control 'set' button resets all of the Nanny State functions. It doesn't help us of course, but it suggests that BMW have a different attitude to driver annoyance.

 

[JKP]

Unfortunately the star button can't be set to disable the speed warning on the FL cars. It has a few options but most are pretty useless.

The option was there in the car I test drove. Another thing is, does it only open the menu on the MMI every time and you have to disable it from there, but I got the impression you could program the on-off switch straight to the star button. There's this another button for opening the "assistive" systems menu in the lower control panel, which I hope I'll never need to touch... Hopefully the OBD11 really can be used to code that little fcker off.

 

[JKP]

Never had to turn it off on mine as was off as default and it never came on (UK) - 2020 8Y S3 so something has changed clearly

You mean the lane keeping assistant? If so, are you the first owner of the car or was it pre-owned when you got it? It should be on by factory default and only off or rememberign the last setting if somebody's been tweaking it. I asked the dealer if they could do that for me to my previous car and they said they're not allowed to touch it. Clearly they knew it could be done. I don't think this should be different in the UK.

 

[Creg]

Unfortunately the star button can't be set to disable the speed warning on the FL cars. It has a few options but most are pretty useless.

I have the steering wheel button configured to disable the speed warning on my face lift S3.

Perhaps it is software or model dependent.

 

[fatherted11]

I have the steering wheel button configured to disable the speed warning on my face lift S3.

Perhaps it is software or model dependent.

How odd, mine are totally different:

There is also a further "Current voice guidance" option if I scroll down.

My software version is 4143.

 

[Creg]

There is also a further "Current voice guidance" option if I scroll down.

My software version is 4143.

I get the below as further options.

My car is a vorsprung and looks to be running software version 4318.

 

[JKP]

I have the steering wheel button configured to disable the speed warning on my face lift S3.

Perhaps it is software or model dependent.

This is what I saw in that test drive car and expect to have in my next car too. The other pic is indeed confusing, it shows like the pre-FL star button options.

 

[Sparks43]

You mean the lane keeping assistant? If so, are you the first owner of the car or was it pre-owned when you got it? It should be on by factory default and only off or rememberign the last setting if somebody's been tweaking it. I asked the dealer if they could do that for me to my previous car and they said they're not allowed to touch it. Clearly they knew it could be done. I don't think this should be different in the UK.

No I am talking about the speed warning as per the title - Lane Assist is a different topic on here - I was the first owner and I never plugged anything in

It was the first S3 8Y in September 2020 just after launch so might not have been defaulted on from factory back then

Lane Assist you had to turn off everytime using the button on the end of the stalk

 

[JKP]

Ok, I was just confused because not nearly all pre-FL cars even have the speed warning at all. Neither of mine did. I guess it comes available by the sat nav but is always off by default. Should have remembered all the UK cars come with the sat nav...

Anyways the regulations are different now so even the new cars without the sat nav must have the traffic sign based speed limit recognition and the damn speed warning always on by default.

 

[/dev/null]

The thing is, I kind of actually like the concept, I can use predictive cruise control and it keeps me at the limits etc. - eliminates speeding tickets and increases economy. My issue is that it just gets it wrong far too often. I had the car start breaking heavily on the motorway last week because it had picked up a speed sign from a road somewhere in view from the carriageway. Then proceeded to ping at me because I sped back up to 70! When it works properly then great, not don't enforce something on us that's half-****** still

 

[Simon50s]

Ok, I was just confused because not nearly all pre-FL cars even have the speed warning at all. Neither of mine did. I guess it comes available by the sat nav but is always off by default. Should have remembered all the UK cars come with the sat nav...

Anyways the regulations are different now so even the new cars without the sat nav must have the traffic sign based speed limit recognition and the damn speed warning always on by default.

My 2024 pre-facelift A3 doesn't have speed warning but the Skoda Fabia holiday hire car I'm driving just now does. At first I didn't understand why it kept making a 'bing' noise - a touch annoying. One feature I'm pleased I don't have LOL.

 

[fatherted11]

This is what I saw in that test drive car and expect to have in my next car too. The other pic is indeed confusing, it shows like the pre-FL star button options.

Was the car you test drove a Vorsprung or Black Edition (or something else)? I know the Black Edition has a different steering wheel so wonder if that's why the buttons and software versions are different.

 

[JKP]

We have very different trim line policy here, it's more like in Germany but without the most stripped basic variants. The test drive car was the most basic we have. I think the buttons in the steering wheels are exactly the same regardless of the design.

 

[JKP]

Now I have an OBD11 related question. I tried to code the speed warning off yesterday but my OBD11 refuses to do it. The one-click-app selection offers it (there were just two options for the new car now), but when I choose it and scroll down the screen to use it, the app finally says something like "not supported" (mine's in Finnish so don't know the exact translation). I noticed I don't have enough credits left, so the question is, is it the reason the function isn't "supported" or is it because of the car? I don't want to buy more credits if it won't work anyway because there isn't anything else where I would need the credits at the moment.

 

[fatherted11]

You can't use any of the OBD11 apps or functions to do coding on the FL models. They are all locked down with SFD2.

 

[JKP]

Ok, thanks! Weird that they show some functions on their website or in the app as usable ones.

 

[Jason1987]

I think you can turn the alert volume right down and increase the speed allowance so it only goes off at like 10mph over the limit? Should make it go off less

 

[fatherted11]

It always resets to "Standard" which I guess is between 0 and 3mph over the limit (settings are 0, Standard, 3 and 6 mph). Can't find a way to mute the alert volume either.

I used to turn it off each time I started the car but I've sort of zoned out from it now and ignore it. Passengers always ask what the beeping is for tho!

 

[JKP]

This is so stupid. The speed warning would be even useful if it remembered the tolerance setting, but as it resets it's just annoying. Fortunately it can be set to the star button to turn it off by just one push.

 

[Jason1987]

This is so stupid. The speed warning would be even useful if it remembered the tolerance setting, but as it resets it's just annoying. Fortunately it can be set to the star button to turn it off by just one push.

Does the speed warning stay on even in dynamic and sport mode etc?

 

[fatherted11]

Driving mode doesn't affect any of the assist settings.

Can't even save it to the star button on my car. Taking it in for its first service in a few weeks so hoping they can check for software updates in case that's why.

 

[JKP]

Tell them to fix it as you've heard it should be possible. It can't be like in some cars you can do it and some others you can't. The dealer knows it's possible to disable entirely, they're not just allowed to change it that way.

 

[DAVID_1792]

I have just spent 200 credits on my OBD app to change the value and switch the warning off, and it does not work…

Has anyone been able to get it?

 

[DAVID_1792]

I have just spent 200 credits on my OBD app to change the value and switch the warning off, and it does not work…

Has anyone been able to get it?

Updated: after doing the modification in the OBD app, the speed warning remained ON in the MMI. I turned it off, and after that restarted again the car, it worked. Right now, if I go to MMI settings, is turned off. Finally!!!