Park Assist hitting curb

rambu · Jul 26, 2014

Just wondering if you guys have any bad experience with the Park Assist system. It has been 2 weeks that my car cannot park parallel perfectly. Every time I use it, it wanted to hit the curb (rear wheel).

Basically what I did was drive the car straight looking for a parking spot after pressing the Park Assist button. Stopped my car side by side with another car, put the gear into R and let it parallel park. It has not been working properly for 2 weeks.

The wheels are fine. I didn't scratch them. I canceled the Park Assist knowing the fact that the car will hit the curb.

Is Park Assist an unreliable system? Is it just a guide and not meant to get it right all the time?

cuke2u · Jul 26, 2014

Worked fine on my ford but it isn't infallible. Take yours to the dealership and have them check it out...

monkeyhanger · Jul 26, 2014

cuke2u said:
Worked fine on my ford but it isn't infallible. Take yours to the dealership and have them check it out...

I believe the system lines the back outside edge of your car up with the front outside edge of the car behind. If the car behind is narrower than yours, your back passenger side wheel might hit the kerb.
Same foible of the Golf 7.

Vertigo1 · Jul 26, 2014

monkeyhanger said:
I believe the system lines the back outside edge of your car up with the front outside edge of the car behind. If the car behind is narrower than yours, your back passenger side wheel might hit the kerb.
Same foible of the Golf 7.

If that's true then what a hopeless system!

cuke2u · Jul 26, 2014

Yes if it is true then it's inferior to the one that was fitted to my focus at no extra cost. That version uses angled sensors to 'sense' where the kerbs are.

cemerson · Jul 26, 2014

Never had a problem with it myself - I think it should pick up the kerb, it does appear to on mine. Never had it hit the kerb, but as others have said it does depend on what the other cars have done too.

cilurnum · Jul 27, 2014

Rubbish. I hope there will be a software update for that.

Shermo · Jul 27, 2014

I have this on my Octavia but only used it once so far. The manual does say that if the cars you are parking between are parked on the curb then it will not work perfectly, I guess the same is true if the two cars are much narrower?

Vertigo1 · Jul 27, 2014

I'll no doubt get flamed for this but I totally fail to see why you'd spec such an option. If you need it because you can't parallel park yourself then you shouldn't be on the road. If you just want it as a convenience, frankly I could park faster and more accurately myself.

Shermo · Jul 27, 2014

Or you've got a partner who has gone from driving a smart car to an octavia and you don't want her crashing your brand new car?

glospete · Jul 27, 2014

I love technology so for a small amount of money I want to see how it works. May never use it once I have tried it out!

Vertigo1 · Jul 27, 2014

Shermo said:
Or you've got a partner who has gone from driving a smart car to an octavia and you don't want her crashing your brand new car?

As I said, if she can't park properly herself then she shouldn't be on the road. Luckily my other half doesn't drive but, if she did but couldn't park properly, I wouldn't let her drive it at all.

glospete · Jul 27, 2014

Vertigo1 said:
As I said, if she can't park properly herself then she shouldn't be on the road. Luckily my other half doesn't drive but, if she did but couldn't park properly, I wouldn't let her drive it at all.

do let us know what her comment was when you showed her that post!

Vertigo1 · Jul 27, 2014

Haha

CCWS3 · Jul 27, 2014

I really don't see why people would trust the car to park itself...

Don't get me wrong, I love tech, but some things are best left to the driver..

hades- · Jul 27, 2014

I don't really see why any audi owner in his right mind would let his other half drive the car anyway (him or her)

cuke2u · Jul 27, 2014

So this thread has moved on from being 'parkist' to sexist. Nice I think not...

hades- · Jul 27, 2014

What's sexist about it ?

cilurnum · Jul 28, 2014

Vertigo1 said:
I'll no doubt get flamed for this but I totally fail to see why you'd spec such an option. If you need it because you can't parallel park yourself then you shouldn't be on the road. If you just want it as a convenience, frankly I could park faster and more accurately myself.

I *really* dislike the park assist pilot (I can NEVER trust anything where you *half* control it with a computer so if it goes wrong it's your fault) but the other parking aids such as sensors and the camera are quite useful.

Never thought I'd say that but I drove a Merc a few months with that on and it certainly helped to give me a good idea of exactly where the car was in an extremely tight parking area and I wanted to be confident with the car I was driving.

royalsteve68 · Jul 28, 2014

Vertigo1 said:
If that's true then what a hopeless system!

it is hopeless as it didn't pcik up my low kerb and I scrapped my alloys after a week - luckily not much damage but annoying

rambu · Jul 28, 2014

Shermo said:
I have this on my Octavia but only used it once so far. The manual does say that if the cars you are parking between are parked on the curb then it will not work perfectly, I guess the same is true if the two cars are much narrower?

I see. That's interesting. I'll checkout the manual and see what it says.

rambu · Jul 28, 2014

royalsteve68 said:
it is hopeless as it didn't pcik up my low kerb and I scrapped my alloys after a week - luckily not much damage but annoying

Ouch! Sorry to hear that. Are you driving S3 8V?

cilurnum · Jul 28, 2014

royalsteve68 said:
it is hopeless as it didn't pcik up my low kerb and I scrapped my alloys after a week - luckily not much damage but annoying

The whole point of this is to minimise the chance of scraping anything.

rambu · Jul 28, 2014

Vertigo1 said:
I'll no doubt get flamed for this but I totally fail to see why you'd spec such an option. If you need it because you can't parallel park yourself then you shouldn't be on the road. If you just want it as a convenience, frankly I could park faster and more accurately myself.

If that's the case, if the AC, radio or lights do not work in your car, it's ok? If Park Assist is meant to park your car, then it should park your car. Not curbing it.

Helifella · Jul 28, 2014

My old's have Assist on their Touran, kind of a fun gimmick to challenge it. They didn't spec it, just wanted F&R sensors. My mum who is 70 is one of a few with the ability to park. I guess her growing up with cars (her dad had a big dealership in Cirencester before the use of transporter lorries she would help out delivering / shifting cars around.)

I've spec'd park plus / camera but not the assist on my new order.

cemerson · Jul 28, 2014

CCWS3 said:
I really don't see why people would trust the car to park itself...

Don't get me wrong, I love tech, but some things are best left to the driver..

You do realise that it just does the steering, right? You are still in control of the speed, stopping and starting etc. So it is left to the driver. You still monitor things and can take over or stop if it's about to hit something (which it never does for me). I've used mine dozens of times without an issue.

Vertigo1 said:
I'll no doubt get flamed for this but I totally fail to see why you'd spec such an option. If you need it because you can't parallel park yourself then you shouldn't be on the road. If you just want it as a convenience, frankly I could park faster and more accurately myself.

Oh dear, are you one of these that think assist and convenience systems eat away at your masculinity somehow? Well good for you, don't spec it on your car and we'll all stand back and tell you what an amazing driver you must be. But don't tell other people that spec it for convenience (and it is very convenient, and a good system) that they can't drive or must not be as good as you, because that's just arrogant in the extreme.

Or perhaps I should berate you for not having a car without power steering, an automatic choke, a starter moter, sat nav, cruise control and other such assists/convenience features? Or perhaps maybe realise that just because you don't like something and someone else does, doesn't mean they "can't be as skilled as you"?

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