Park Assist?

[Dan Burnley]

Since being in the forum, I haven't really heard of any park assist reviews or info. Has anyone got this option? How is it?

[Mr Savage]

In my opinion it's a gimmick. Parking is easy with reverse camera, parking sensors & auto kerb view. Spend the money elsewhere in my opinion.

[2014GTi]

I have this option but not used it yet.
It's not an expensive option for what it does to be honest

[watson]

For the £150 only you've spent you will find it a good toy to play with until you find yourself blocked in whilst parked.

Park assist 2 can now get you out of incredibly tight gaps so well worth the money.

[GTI-7-Performance]

Really fantastic particularly parking the dark and rain. Really a remarkable development!

Only slight worry is that it tends to scrub the tyres by turning wheel when stationary. Wouldn't be without it...

[dippy_x]

I specced this after it was confirmed the the colour MFD would be standard on the GTI/GTD's.  cost was roughly the same.  Used it for the first time today and have to admit that it is an impressive bit of kit.  Wife and kids were like "wow!" As I sat in the obligatory look no hands posture watching the steering turn by itself.

I have found the parallel park really smooth.  I have used reverse park twice - both times it seemed to take a couple of moves to park where I know if I did it manually I would been in the first time.

It's a fairly inexpensive option and you get extra sensors around the car - I think it's definately worth it!

[peterdoherty]

Defoe worth it for the low cost

[mcmaddy]

Definitely worth it and the people who say it's a gimmick ignore them. Version 2 what we have enables you to get out of tight spaces in case someone else probably without park assist blocks you in. £150 well worth it in my opinion.

[mullermn]

Very impressive for the money. So far I've demo'd it lots of times and used it in anger once, and TBH it didn't actually work all that well but I think that was because a) I didn't have the car quite parallel with the other traffic when I told it to park and b) the kerb happened to be old and battered and very low and probably didn't register properly on the sensors.

For the money though I have no doubt that it's going to prove itself useful at some point.

It can definitely park better than I can - when the nose swings in I think there's not enough room every time and it's always fine.

[2014GTi]

What if it curbs my alloys