I had exactly the same experience with about a 2019 Koleos with cruise control and hills over a good 5000 km of driving a few years ago, when it was near-new. Very revvy and changeable! The main reason I wouldn't get one is that it is too big for my needs. It was good enough for what it was and they seem to behave reasonably well according to a few Koleos owners I know.G'day Philip. We bought a new Koleos Intens in 2019 and have now done just over 60k with it. The only problems with it were a computer "misalignment" not long after we bought it - tiny problem (as with most all cars with systems operated through the computer) because with a malfunction of this type, nothing works. For instance, the car would not start/stop (button controlled), nor would the aircon/fans work etc. Easily fixed but a real pain to sort out. The car is beautiful to drive, good overtaking power and nice handling (nicer on current Conti tyres). We average just over 7 l/100 km, mostly open road driving.
The major thing I dislike is the cruise control, on our car it is just awful. Any kind of hill, even the slightest gradient, and the revs go up to ridiculous levels, e.g. as much as 5,000 rpm. It's been checked and apparently there is "nothing wrong". On any kind of rising ground, I turn it off until we are back on level ground. Big safe car with lots of airbags and ANCAP 5 safety rating.
Don't trust the automatic parking function, occasionally it will ask you to keep moving slowly when the 'red' alarms are going off. Mostly it works perfectly - people love watching a car park itself!
The Koleos does have real "presence", it looks like a classy car and it is. Lots of nice touches with choices for colours and styles for the dashboard screen and centre screen. The rear doors open to almost 90 degrees, more than any other car we have had.
Yes, we would buy another one, but only after an open road drive to check out the cruise control. Any questions, just ask.
Dave
It's called 'active cruise control' and very useful in traffic jams as well if it has 'stop.go' functionality. I don't know if the Koleos has it - the specs on the website don't mention it.so if the car in front slowed down, so did the Fortuna. When the slower car in front turned off it went straight back to the set speed.
How odd, that the ECO works to tame the cruise control on mine, but not yours.I did try the cruise control on a slight hill with the ECO button ON, no difference...
Odd. Yes. Something else going on? Perhaps...How odd, that the ECO works to tame the cruise control on mine, but not yours.
Ian.
There should be specs for the Koleos cruise control somewhere. You'd be confident the dealers might not be up to speed with the logical adjustment you are talking about though. I drove a new Koleos with cruise control and a trailer and it was terrible on hills.It shouldn't be too hard. I have fitted the old style aftermarket cruise controls, quality ones, and they had a "gain" setting, which I didn't understand at first. I fitted one to a manual transmission Falcon, and it was very surgey and jerky. Spoke to supplier, he said to reduce the gain to about setting of 2 out of 8 for a manual trans. Autos were default at about 5 or 6 out of 8. The gain just reduced the rate at which the cruise control tried to recover from a lower speed to the set speed. I feel the Koleos just plants it when the speed starts dropping.
Amazing thing about the braking radar - our Intens is the highest level Koleos, the radar is mentioned in the handbook, with the proviso "if fitted to your vehicle" - I'm sure it's there, somewhere, but on our car, simply not connected up. More than a little annoyed.I’ve got a 2019 Zen 2wd since new with 33k on the clock now. Both of those faults mentioned are on mine - cruise control going beserk on hills even in economy Mode (which I leave mine in constantly) and the rattle on cold startup. I was also told the same thing regarding the rattle. “It’s normal, live it!”
for the cruise control issue, I also just flick it off at the point I approach a hill or when it first starts to rev if it catches me off guard.
it’s been a good car with no major issues (active braking radar replaced under warranty) but just services apart from that. It’s a lousy car for towing, particularly on wet or slippery surfaces and I wished I’d bought the 4wd diesel version (Intens) but then I’d be paranoid about the rear diff (or is it the front diff which are suspect) so there’s no winning either way.
I looked for this on mine, but it is the Zen model, so not fitted I guess. But how I confirmed this is by the button on left side of steering wheel, between the R and O buttons for the cruise control. My centre button is blank. If it has Adaptive cruise control, that button has a car with 3 lines under it. Page 2.73 in my owner's manual.Amazing thing about the braking radar - our Intens is the highest level Koleos, the radar is mentioned in the handbook, with the proviso "if fitted to your vehicle" - I'm sure it's there, somewhere, but on our car, simply not connected up. More than a little annoyed.