Wife borrowed my trusty Octy the other day.

 

Be careful I say, of course she says.

 

Hour later she's home after reducing the pheasant population by one...

 

Collision has knocked the lower grill mounted sensor out of line, just wondering how its mounted to the car so I can try and straighten it up again.

 

Thank you.

 

M.

On 23/08/2019 at 16:16, Mence said:

she's home after reducing the pheasant population by one

TBF that probably really was the pheasant's fault.

Sorry, meant Adaptive Cruise Control sensor thingy

I'm not sure of this with the lower sensor but it sounds grim.

 

Don't you have a warning light on the dash saying the system isn't working?

 

I would have thought the system would need re-aligning rather than simply remounted.  The trouble is if the sensor is out by a fraction and it detects a car approching on the otherside of the road, it may activate the emergency brakes thinging you're about to collide. Someone may give better advice but sounds to me like it could be a wallet-breaking visit to the dealership.

 

A full reallignment costs around £600, hopefully you won't require that.

Edited 23 August, 20196 yr by Guest

Hi all.

 

Further to earlier post, an update.

 

As Scot5 states, VW Audi want between £400 and £600 to realign / recalibrate the sensor, money I would rather not spend for a function I use so rarely.

 

I read on a VW forum about someone in an almost identical situation to me (different type of bird) who sorted his.

 

What he said he did was to put a couple of fingers behind the side of the sensor that was out of line, firmly pull it forwards towards you and you should / might hear a loud click as it snaps back into its mounts.

This I did and sure enough, said click was clearly heard.

The next stage he said was to take the car out for a drive and with any luck, the sensor would 'know' it was back in line and clear the error message. He said it might take a couple of hours of driving to achieve this.

I was a tad sceptical but thought what the hell, I had a three hour drive down to the Welsh Border yesterday so reasoned that should be long enough.

 

On arrival, turned car off, did a few bits, went back to car and well, error message had cleared from the mfd and to cap it all, the function worked perfectly for the three hour drive back last night!

 

Not often I get a big win like that FOC so well chuffed!