Hello All,

 

I’ve now covered about 350 miles in my new car and loving it so far. I have just about every driver aid fitted and I think I’ve grasped the hand of most things.

 

However today on a short journey I had a new Symbol flash up red and large on the colored central display between the clocks. I’ve gone through the handbook and can find nothing like it. My dealer is equally clueless, so I’m throwing this one out there to the more knowledgeable user group.

 

The warning ( I assume it’s a warning as there’s  a beep and it flashes up red momentarily) is a plan view of a car with ‘radar’ type graphics radiating outwards from all four sides. These look like the WiFi signal strength symbol used on an iPhone,  times four.

 

It came up twice  in 20 minutes - once when passing a speed camera (coincidence? As I wasn’t speeding and sub 40mph) and the second time as I followed the lane as it deflected slightly left/right around a central island at around 25mph

 

Something to do with lane assist? I’ve played around with it on motorways to marvel as it auto corrects, however I thought it only came on above 40mph and deliberately allowing the car to wander hasn’t triggered this warning previously.

 

Anyone else cracked this conundrum?

If it’s the symbol shown below it’s the front assist and well documented in the handbook.

Damn, that’s it!  Thanks for the quick feedback

 

Apologies that I’ve missed that in the handbook and wasted your time - pity that the Hortons service department didn’t know that. However that’s been a pretty typical example of their customer service.

 

 

I got a call from the wife the other day, telling me that she too had experienced the same issue, the red warning and beeping.

 

Nothing obvious in front of the car so I'm assuming it was a false alert. Luckily the car didn't feel the need to apply the brakes automatically.

 

A guy at work has an Aud A4 and the front assist on that is overly sensitive, it keep emergency stopping on him at random. The dealer turned the system down to its lowest level of sensitivity but it still does it. He's worried he's going to cause an accident rather than avoiding one!

Thanks for that - yes, I’m a little worried why it was activated twice today whereas I’d had no such problems  previously.

I’ve  driven the same roads a few times in the Kodiaq without incident. There were no cars or obvious hazards ahead of me. The system kicked in when I think it ‘saw’ a Gatso camera (no different to the many lampposts) and a Keep Left island.

Fortunately it didn’t deploy the brakes and it was more of a fleeting warning 

 

I wouldn’t worry too much - mine has days when it beeps at various things. But it hasn’t done it for ages (which means I’m overdue a bad day).

 

Also, as you have an Edition, it’s not just the front sensor but the rear cross-traffic radars too that can trigger it. I’ve had it go off when someone has pulled in right behind me (and I mean no more than a metre or two).

 

I’d rather a few false positives than it not detecting something when it should.

Cheers for that - fair point about it being better to be too sensitive than too late!

Not had it yet on the Kodi (only had it four days) but it does it sometimes on our Fabia. Only once for me when a car pulled across in front of me, but my wife has had it trigger for leaves and litter.

The perimeter road around Heathrow drives mine nuts going past the ends of the runways. I’ve learned to expect it now, but first time it happened it was a little frightening!