Hello, 

I'm going to view a 2013 Octavia Estate Elegance soon and the dealer shows on their website it has both Front Assist and Park Assist on it. Could you tell me how I can check the car actually has these? 

 

Many thanks,

Ian 

For front assist you could get something large and light weight like a big block up Styrofoam and try to drive into it (I want to try this because it sounds fun). Park assist should be an option on the infotainment. 

That might scare the dealer if I tried doing that . Just to check, is Park Assist the auto park function or is it the display that shows warning lights around the image of the car?

 

Thanks,

Ian 

4 minutes ago, smithee said:

That might scare the dealer if I tried doing that . Just to check, is Park Assist the auto park function or is it the display that shows warning lights around the image of the car?

 

Thanks,

Ian 

 

The latter

Great, thanks for the help

Ian

A 2013 model will have the small square radar at the centre of the lower front grill if the car.  No radar means no front assist. 

Have a look in the lower grill, if there's a square block in the middle, that's the FA radar, if you scroll through the options in the information system there's a section called "Driver Assistance" and Front Assist is an option to have enabled/disabled.

 

For Park Assist there will be a button on the left in front of the gear lever with a steering wheel on.  pressing this will change the maxidot display on the instrument cluster and show a picture of a car and parking spaces to the left which you could parallel park in, press the button again and it looks for parking bays to reverse into.

25 minutes ago, Russ77 said:

Have a look in the lower grill, if there's a square block in the middle, that's the FA radar, if you scroll through the options in the information system there's a section called "Driver Assistance" and Front Assist is an option to have enabled/disabled.

 

For Park Assist there will be a button on the left in front of the gear lever with a steering wheel on.  pressing this will change the maxidot display on the instrument cluster and show a picture of a car and parking spaces to the left which you could parallel park in, press the button again and it looks for parking bays to reverse into.

I have a 2015 1.4TSI Elegance Estate and agree 100% with this

Park Assist is easy to tell externally too, you get extra parking sensors.

 

Note the ones on the front and rear wheel arches, over and above the regular four front and four rear sensors...

 

Here is the Front Assist radar housing (in the lower grill)...

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 21 January, 20197 yr by silver1011

That's great, thanks very much . Makes it easy to check.

 

Ian 

No (to Jaco2k). Park assist is the automatic find a parking space and turning of the steering wheel to park (whilst you control fwds and backwards movement). As opposed to park pilot which is just the display. As far as I know cars with park assist will have two buttons with steering wheels but slightly different logos - one being park pilot and the other being park assist. Normally park pilot comes on automatically when reverse is selected (although I think that is configurable) whereas park assist has to be selected manually whilst going forwards.

 

Front assist has the sensor and also settings in the infotainment.

2 minutes ago, nicknorman said:

No (to Jaco2k). Park assist is the automatic find a parking space and turning of the steering wheel to park (whilst you control fwds and backwards movement). As opposed to park pilot which is just the display. As far as I know cars with park assist will have two buttons with steering wheels but slightly different logos - one being park pilot and the other being park assist. Normally park pilot comes on automatically when reverse is selected (although I think that is configurable) whereas park assist has to be selected manually whilst going forwards.

 

Front assist has the sensor and also settings in the infotainment.

The Park Pilot button is next to the Park Assist button and I think it has a parking cone icon on it (I mainly use it to make the bleeping shut up when going though McDonald's drive-thru  )

18 minutes ago, nicknorman said:

No (to Jaco2k). Park assist is the automatic find a parking space and turning of the steering wheel to park (whilst you control fwds and backwards movement). As opposed to park pilot which is just the display. As far as I know cars with park assist will have two buttons with steering wheels but slightly different logos - one being park pilot and the other being park assist. Normally park pilot comes on automatically when reverse is selected (although I think that is configurable) whereas park assist has to be selected manually whilst going forwards.

 

Front assist has the sensor and also settings in the infotainment.

 

Just to edit that slightly, both buttons have a P, park assist has P plus a steering wheel icon, whereas Park pilot has P plus a traffic cone type thing.

 

 

Park assist bottom left, park pilot to the right of it