MFD error/warning

[Silvadadi]

Over the last couple days I've had the same error/fault/warning symbol flash up on the MFD........but I can't find it anywhere in the manual.  I don't have park assist and the car is a DSG GTD and only a couple months old.

It's in red (never a good start) and takes up all of the MFD with an audible tone for a couple of seconds.  It shows a car with 3 sets of 3 semi circles at 10, 12 and 2 o'clock positions.  ACC wasn't on at any time.

  First instance was at 30 mph going up a slight incline.  Nothing directly in front or behind me but traffic going in opposite direction.

Second instance was at 50-60mph going downhill in outside lane whilst passing stationary cars in near side lane.

Car doesn't slow or go into limp mode and the display justed cleared itself...nothing in the vehicle status.

Any ideas?

[mcmaddy]

Sounds like the emergency braking. If the car thinks your in danger of crashing it will warn you.

[GrahamFR]

thought the emergency brake had triangles in it not semi circles?

[GrahamFR]

not expecting picasso here, but if you could draw it that might help...

[AlanH]

Park Pilot?

[peterdoherty]

From the OPs desc it does sound like its trying to indicate something with the parking sensors possibly?
If red and not in the manual and occurs more than once its a deffo trip to the dealers

[AlanH]

My thinking too - especially the reference to semi-circles which indicate distance to an obstacle in the main screen when Park Pilot is running.

[monkeyhanger]

From the OPs desc it does sound like its trying to indicate something with the parking sensors possibly?
If red and not in the manual and occurs more than once its a deffo trip to the dealers

Perhaps he's left the front assist thingy enabled that allows the car to automatically switch the front parking sensors on for a presumed parking maneuvre (and invariably gets it wrong when you're creeping along in heavy traffic rather than trying to park the car)?

[mcmaddy]

You don't get parking pilot on the mfd just the big nav screen or small if you have that and the op doesn't have park pilot anyway.

[AlanH]

Park Pilot isn't the same as Park Assist.