Mk 7.5 GTI parking sensors

[davyk31]

I'm maybe being stupid here but I have noticed and my wife who drives the car more also reports that on occasions the parking sensors show something on the screen but have no beep. For example this morning where I park at work is tight against a fence, I drive forward slowly and the system must auto engage as the screen shows the front left sensor picking up the fence but no beeps.

Also on two occasions when reversing into my garage which is not tight but the sensors will pick up the walls at the door it has gone into some kind of emergency stop mode. Kinda scary as my first thought was that I had hit something.

Any ideas on these guys?

When the sensor screen in on there are two little boxes to press, haven't quite worked out what these do but maybe they mute the system? I'm not touching them so that isn't what is causing them seeming to mute.

[fredgroves]

The emergency stop thing is enabled disabled in the car menu - braking during manoeuvring.

You can disable it (enabled by default) but equally it can stop you hitting stuff.

I have to disable it to reverse off of a sloping drive, but I do so by just turning off the park assist mode with the P button down by the gear lever.

[davyk31]

Sounds like it’s worth keeping the emergency braking as it’s only happened twice.

The lack of noise from parking sensors is a bit more worrying for me.

[Daz Auto]

Also on two occasions when reversing into my garage which is not tight but the sensors will pick up the walls at the door it has gone into some kind of emergency stop mode. Kinda scary as my first thought was that I had hit something.

This happened to me the other night. It scared me too.

Could the sound have something to do with how it is activated. I notice more noise after the car has been in reverse. Less noise if I drive up to something and it auto-activates. I wonder is auto activation less sensitive.

[fredgroves]

The beeping (assuming that you haven't disabled the sound!) will happen... the display shows both things it can see and also ones that it believes *were* there too (confusing I know). Only things that are getting closer will cause it to beep...

You also have to watch out if you are maneuvering (relatively) quickly because the ultra sonic sensors are quite slow to react. Unless you are going really slowly, you will hit something before its seen it...

[Finglonga]

Do you use separate keys?  Not sure if VW ones have user settings so one key may have different parking settings to the other and may just be a case of turning your volume up.

[fredgroves]

On the Mk7.5 you have different user profiles which I think are tied to the keys... certainly there are different user profiles which can be selected manually when you start the car.