I had a warning message come up this morning to say that the front sensor was impaired.

 

It cleared after turning off/on the ignition.

 

I can only put it down to that it was raining that fine misty rain this morning. It must have confused the sensor somehow.

Thats the British weather for you.  

All theses systems struggle to a greater of lesser extend with fog, mist, rain and snow.  Lots of money being spent working the algorithms that differentiate targets from the weather. These have to be solved if the much vaunted driverless cars are to hit the road safely, currently not sure how much confidence I’d have in these.

On my Octavia I would regularly get a warning stating 'no front sensor view', always happened on the same road in the same place where I would be following a vehicle and i would move over to the left filter lane (other car stayed in his lane) and this warning would ping up. Clever systems but can be confused at times !

I have a VW Golf with ACC and my front sensor failed recently. I have been quoted £2000 to resolve which is an offer I have resisted and will live without ACC. When I ordered my Karoq avoided the ACC option and will stick with the standard cruise on the basis it's not dependent on the very expensive sensor. It's a pity because I liked the ACC on the Golf but my wife is taking this car on and doesn't like Cruise so it's not a problem. 

1 hour ago, westend_jon said:

I have a VW Golf with ACC and my front sensor failed recently. I have been quoted £2000 to resolve which is an offer I have resisted and will live without ACC. When I ordered my Karoq avoided the ACC option and will stick with the standard cruise on the basis it's not dependent on the very expensive sensor. It's a pity because I liked the ACC on the Golf but my wife is taking this car on and doesn't like Cruise so it's not a problem. 

 

Bloody heck, need a part from someone breaking one. 

11 hours ago, MarcusKaroq said:

 

Bloody heck, need a part from someone breaking one. 

I think the calibration is the difficult part - it has to go on a special jig to make sure it's correctly aligned etc

 

3 hours ago, westend_jon said:

I think the calibration is the difficult part - it has to go on a special jig to make sure it's correctly aligned etc

 

 

Nice to have all this new tech but don’t half cost a fortune to repair. 

https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/bosch-das-1000-calibration-set-professional-adjustment-of-sensors-and-cameras-of-driver-assistance-systems-151808.html