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Jun 30th, 2022, 21:16 | #1 |
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Spurious front parking sensor warnings
Just today, the inner drivers side sensor is sometimes giving sporadic warnings (red indication, so = it thinks its very close). Nothing there. It's so loud I think it's a dangerous distraction when driving. Sensor is clean, the connector at the back seems well pushed on.
Sometimes it works fine like the rest of them ; detecting closer and closer obstacles with greens than finally a red warning/ sound. Any ideas/ experience about this ? For an aid like this to make driving more dangerous when it malfunctions, it makes a mockery of Volvo's reputation for design for safety. Better surely that the default should be an error message, not an alarm. Last edited by GrahamHR; Jun 30th, 2022 at 21:20. |
Jun 30th, 2022, 22:03 | #2 |
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Mine drive me crazy, I have to go down an alley and it's constant, I don't have the side ones either, when the RED block pops up on continuous tone I still have 15 inches to the wall, I know mines had replacements as some are 100% body coloured and a couple of others are body coloured but have a black outer ring where they've not been painted fully,
I also find the City Safe thing will find a parked car when I least need it to, normally as I approach a bend in the road, or curvature I should say, Kinda negs their purpose tbh as you still have no idea how close you really are to things. |
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Jul 1st, 2022, 17:14 | #4 |
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I have exactly the same with one of my front sensors. It works perfectly but every now and again it beeps for no reason. I remember it first did it a couple of years ago when it was raining really heavily so I suspect water may be something to do with it. I've cleaned it, checked the connector, and sprayed it with some water repellent stuff but it still does it.
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Jul 1st, 2022, 21:49 | #5 |
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It's fine today. I'll spray the sensor and plug/ wiring with silicone. shouldn't really need doing on a "quality" car,
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Jul 2nd, 2022, 13:53 | #7 |
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We are talking about iffy sensors annoying us at parking speeds. They get dirty, or faulty.
We replace them or moan a bit. It happens. Up the speed a bit to emergency assist / city braking sensors and it gets dodgy. I was lucky someone didn't run in the back of my premium model car. Then go to autonomous driving and imagine faulty sensors then. The trouble is that we are a sensible bunch who will get faulty sensors sorted. Others wont. |
Jul 3rd, 2022, 09:25 | #8 | |
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Also, are younger drivers more reliant upon sensors and, therefore, possibly a bit stuck when they fail, or do they cope? Just a couple of thoughts from someone who used to manage without them but who does actually find them useful. |
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Jul 3rd, 2022, 11:30 | #9 | |
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Rear ones are handy, fronts not so much so they just add noise imo, new ones from the Bay are £23 or near that price anyway. |
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Apr 21st, 2024, 11:54 | #10 |
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Resurrecting a slightly old post (sorry, not sure whether that's better, or should start a new thread):
my wife hit a pheasant the other day on the road, which seems to have knocked the front right parking sensor. There is now a gap where it should be, but I think it must have been knocked inside the bumper cavity as when driving at parking speeds it beeps constantly. I had a look behind the bumper, but it seems one cannot get to it without removing the entire bumper. Is that correct? Would it be a big job to get it either reinserted correctly (if it is just inside the bumper) or replaced if it was knocked out altogether? Approx cost (in the UK)? thanks!
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