Jerodequin
Registered User
Hello all,
Has anyone had experience of the bay parking function on park assist?
Before going into the details, just wanted to get the whole 'I don't need it/I won't ever let a machine help me' line out of the way - if that's the way you feel, that's great - please feel free to start another thread ;-)
I'm a bit of a gadget freak, I had park assist on my previous car (but parallel park only) and thought it was rather cool (although to be honest in 4 years of ownership I can only think of one time where I used it 'in anger').
On the A3 I saw that it not only supports parallel park assist (which I haven't tried yet) but it also supports bay parking... The gadget freak in me meant it had to be added as an option - along with all the other tech goodies of course.
I've now attempted to use the feature on 3 occasions and each time it's either made a total hash up of the attempt (i.e. if I hadn't put the brakes on it would have just taken me into one of the cars on either side of the space) or it's tried to do some sort of crazy forward and back dance - each time this has been spaces that I can just pull up to and reverse straight into in one movement if I'm controlling the car myself.
Is there something wrong with my park assist do you think? Am I somehow using it incorrectly (the user manual only actually covers parallel park assist) or is the bay parking feature really that poor?? I'm hoping the parallel mode is better - it always worked perfectly on my previous car (Mk3 Focus) - if it is that bad, I guess I'll be regretting not spending the cash on some other option.
Has anyone had experience of the bay parking function on park assist?
Before going into the details, just wanted to get the whole 'I don't need it/I won't ever let a machine help me' line out of the way - if that's the way you feel, that's great - please feel free to start another thread ;-)
I'm a bit of a gadget freak, I had park assist on my previous car (but parallel park only) and thought it was rather cool (although to be honest in 4 years of ownership I can only think of one time where I used it 'in anger').
On the A3 I saw that it not only supports parallel park assist (which I haven't tried yet) but it also supports bay parking... The gadget freak in me meant it had to be added as an option - along with all the other tech goodies of course.
I've now attempted to use the feature on 3 occasions and each time it's either made a total hash up of the attempt (i.e. if I hadn't put the brakes on it would have just taken me into one of the cars on either side of the space) or it's tried to do some sort of crazy forward and back dance - each time this has been spaces that I can just pull up to and reverse straight into in one movement if I'm controlling the car myself.
Is there something wrong with my park assist do you think? Am I somehow using it incorrectly (the user manual only actually covers parallel park assist) or is the bay parking feature really that poor?? I'm hoping the parallel mode is better - it always worked perfectly on my previous car (Mk3 Focus) - if it is that bad, I guess I'll be regretting not spending the cash on some other option.