As @Rene points out – Regulation (EU) 2019/2144 of the European Parliament and of the Council 1 mandates motor vehicles to be equipped with intelligent speed assistance (ISA) systems from 6 July 2022 for new vehicle types and from 7 July 2024 for all new vehicles. Unfortunately, this still applies here, even though the UK is no longer part of the EU, as it was ratified into UK law.
The same principle applies with EUrope derived ADAS systems, which are reactivated to the on position at every restart.
Owners of european manufactured cars, namely BMW, Mini, VAG and mostly Ford, as well as some foreign cars, there is the availability of alternative coding tools/software, that allows you to turn on/off safety related functions and enable functions that would be dealer chargeable. If you were not confident or didn’t want to buy such equipment, there are manufacturer specific forum members who would do this for you at a small cost. The disclaimer here, is the car is owned by Motability and not us cough!
Hyundai/Kia group are such manufacturers that are not easy without expensive equipment and often the need to sign a disclaimer with the dealer to turn off such functions, which would be charged at the going rate and thats if they are wiling to do it in the first place. Going this route, would almost certainly need apprval from Motability!
However, Hyundai/Kia models with ccNC infotainment systems, you are able to permanently lower the warning volume and turn off LKA & ISLA from the steering wheel, at every fecking restart, but it’s at least a shortcut compared to others where the need to delve into screens is required. Renault may have best system with their Perso settings.
Pre the refresh (ccNC), you were able to turn speed limit warning setting completely off or offset warnings by up to 10mph over the speed limit.
I will look later what, if anything has changed since the service.
I am for a a dongle or the ability to program one however, early attemps seem to ascertain, the systems in question are not possible from the OBD11 port on Korean cars, but I keep trying and currently looking at what could be done with Arduino and or disabling the bing bong speaker by a switch.