Has anyone else had this problem? I was driving on a very narrow road with no verge and a hedge almost overhanging the roadway; as I was starting to turn into a sharp right hand bend, the front assist warning appeared on the display and the brakes were applied.

It took me a short while to recover, as the brakes almost stopped the vehicle entirely,when half way round what was effectively a blind bend to following traffic.

I have since found out that front assist can be de-activated, but it needs to be done each time that the ignition is turned on. 

Constructive ideas would be most welcome!

 

 

Edited 19 May, 20188 yr by eton@30900

Surely this is a case for the dealer to alter the sensitivity. I'd have thought the idea was to prevent an accident and not cause one.

 

Colin

Colin, thanks for your thought. On further playing with the settings, it will accept 'Late' warning in place of Early or Medium, and this setting does not change when the ignition is turned off and on again. I will report back when I have tested the settings for real on the same road.

Thanks again,

Iain

Edited 19 May, 20188 yr by eton@30900

I haven't had it brake, but I've had the warning beep and dash signal appear a couple of times when turning really sharp bends.

 

Didn't know you could adjust it, I really must read the manual at some stage

On 5/19/2018 at 11:16, eton@30900 said:

Has anyone else had this problem? I was driving on a very narrow road with no verge and a hedge almost overhanging the roadway; as I was starting to turn into a sharp right hand bend, the front assist warning appeared on the display and the brakes were applied.

It took me a short while to recover, as the brakes almost stopped the vehicle entirely,when half way round what was effectively a blind bend to following traffic.

I have since found out that front assist can be de-activated, but it needs to be done each time that the ignition is turned on. 

Constructive ideas would be most welcome!

 

 

 

Had something similar to this happen to me on the way home yesterday on some Twisty bits around North Yorkshire.  Vehicle in front went around a corner, car showed "BRAKE" with the icon, and weirdly, around the bend the traffic was stopped!  Either an eery coincidence, or the radar knew something that I couldn't see!

 

You can change its sensitivity to be "Early", "Medium", or "Late", I have mine on Early.  Sometimes its a bit too safe though

eton@30900 I have just had the same situation as yourself narrow country lane no curb but hedgerows. Going around a right hand bend about 35 mph when the car braked sharply luckily no one was following me, I didn't receive any warning it was going to happen. No adverse weather just a sunny evening, I would be interested to hear your findings on the settings.

 

We live and work up various narrow lanes and have had this warning several times. I guess as the verges grow in and get bushy this will only get worse. To my knowledge neither of us has had a brake 'assistance' event yet. Like others I was unaware it could be adjusted, even though I've looked in the settings. I've just had a read of the manual and the settings referred to are subtly different to my own. I'll check again and report back when the vehicle returns.

Edited 23 May, 20188 yr by Luckypants

Update to my original post.

Having set the front assist warning to 'Late', I drove along the same road at the same speed as when the unwanted braking occurred; this time, there was no warning or braking.

I then repeated the test, driving closer to the hedge and again no warning or braking took place. It would seem that the change of settings has worked in my case.

I will report again should there be any change.

Iain

Pressing the throttle over-rides any front assist braking action.

On ‎23‎/‎05‎/‎2018 at 13:24, Luckypants said:

<snip> Like others I was unaware it could be adjusted, even though I've looked in the settings. I've just had a read of the manual and the settings referred to are subtly different to my own. I'll check again and report back when the vehicle returns.

I had a look again at the settings in the driver assist sub-menu and found how to change the setting. I've changed it to 'LATE' so hopefully its the end of the false alarms.

My dealer set this to late for me on collection as "it's annoying otherwise". I've moved it to the middle setting, it seems fine. 

Even "late" is a bit paranoid when overtaking and wanting to minimise time exposed to danger.

I've had similar issues - more often just the scary red space invader warning on the instrument panel but on one occasion coming down hill towards a cattle grid at around 40mph it slammed on the brakes.  Now, to be fair, the sensors probably detected me heading for a large metal object in the road, but as others have observed on this and similar threads, had anyone been behind me there is a fair chance they would not have managed to stop before hitting me.