Reversing out of my parking space at work today and the parking sensor diagram was lit up at one side and beeping as if it was up against an object

Took it to the dealer and its booked in for a replacement on Friday week!

Rear bumper has to come off too!! :'(

Anyone else had any sensor problems? They are factory fit

I had this problem and I think it might be unrelated to the sensor. I think it was an ECU problem and the ECU chip was replaced/reset/reprogrammed (whatever it is they do to ECU chip's!). Hopefully it is something as simple as that for you too.

I had this problem and I think it might be unrelated to the sensor. I think it was an ECU problem and the ECU chip was replaced/reset/reprogrammed (whatever it is they do to ECU chip's!). Hopefully it is something as simple as that for you too.

They said they would be replacing the centre two sensors, so it appears not to be an ECU problem at the moment ....fingers crossed :S

Reversing out of my parking space at work today and the parking sensor diagram was lit up at one side and beeping as if it was up against an object

Took it to the dealer and its booked in for a replacement on Friday week!

Rear bumper has to come off too!!

Anyone else had any sensor problems? They are factory fit

Mine has done this a few times (about 4 times in four months) not always the same sensor and it has always been after heavy rain, it has cleared itself after driving for a short distance. I am keeping a eye on it and would be interested what they do to correct yours.

Matt.

I had issues with the parking sensors on my 06 Elegance which meant 2 trips to a dealer. Luckily all under warranty, but i've been put off Parking Sensors because of this and false positives I get (i.e. reversing off our drive and beeping because of the angle of the car to a kerb. I went into my mother in laws Auris one day because of this (I should have been awake in the first place!!))

This morning they are fine.

Loks like mine might be doing what yours did Matt.

I'll give it a couple of days and if no more problems, cancel the dealership work

Mine have been doing this for months, but its an intermittent fault, and the dealer can't replicate it (several attempts).

I suspect that its due to water ingress in the boot area (from transporting live fish), but without the dealer finding a problem, I can't say for sure.

Is there a way of turning off the sensors. I don't like trusting them and in 12 years of driving have only nudged something when parking once (when learning).

Must be a vag-com way of doing it?

Edited 31 March, 201016 yr by lard-ajc

I had this issue for 20 seconds.. got out.. cleaned the said sensor and it stopped eheh

Wife's Auris has a switch inside the boot to turn rear sensors off.

mine has done it a couple of times the other day in the rain weird thing is that is says there is something at the furthers away point (if that makes sense) which I would have though if it was rain on the sensor its be the closest point? It just flashed on the display for a few seconds then went.

Not had parking sensors before but I have found them very useful

Contacted the Dealer and cancelled the work

Until next time!! :S

mine did this for the past year until the right one now only works on a very dry day, you can disable them by pulling a fuse out too (check the manual) I put it down to water getting into the sensor and making it short..

when did we start needing sensors to tell us if we were going to hit someothing instead of using our god given senses?

when did we start needing sensors to tell us if we were going to hit someothing instead of using our god given senses?

When the rear ends of cars started to get so high that bollards and even children were no longer visible looking through the back window...