I had the attached message on my dash this morning , followed the instruction and my steering wheel had a mind of its own for a second spinning both ways. It’s the second time it’s happened and driven perfectly fine after.

can anyone shed any light on it as I’ve searched and found nothing , thanks 

Edited 21 December, 20232 yr by Brian15

It's the auto park feature. There is a button next to the sensor/camera button near the gear selector for this. 

 

Tried it once. Didn't offer much other than stress. Never bothered again.

That made me chuckle 😄

 

I was laughing not because you did not know about the system but imaging myself in that situation, I would not want to drive the car any further!

 

However as someone whose default response to being told what to do (without why) is "shan't!" then I would be immune to such intrusions!

Thanks for the reply but why do I need to engage reverse and indicate ?

As you may have gathered I’ve never used the feature 

25 minutes ago, Brian15 said:

Thanks for the reply but why do I need to engage reverse and indicate ?

As you may have gathered I’ve never used the feature 

So that the car can perform a "safe reverse parking manoeuvre" without driver intervention. I, too, would prefer it to wait to be asked before starting to give you instructions and steering itself.

11 minutes ago, Paws4Thot said:

So that the car can perform a "safe reverse parking manoeuvre" without driver intervention. I, too, would prefer it to wait to be asked before starting to give you instructions and steering itself.

 

Do you not normally have to push the button first?

1 hour ago, Brian15 said:

Thanks for the reply but why do I need to engage reverse and indicate ?

As you may have gathered I’ve never used the feature 

It performs a reverse parallel park manoeuvre. You pass the space, stop and put it reverse. It then it takes over steering while you do the pedals.

It must be psychic if it believes that  you want to reverse parallel park if you havn't even selected reverse gear 🤣

Edited 21 December, 20232 yr by J.R.

When you are already parked, it will do the “unparking” manoeuvre for you. But you have to press the button first. So either you pressed the button by accident, or there is some malfunction (loose wire etc) that did it for you.

Bet it can't do what this silver car does?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN6MqsBombA

It's what I call to parking / driving "by ear"... I hate this kind of drivers! Way too common in Paris area... If you do have to park in Paris, rather go to underground parking lots. They're awfully expensive, but you won't have your car bumped... 

Are you pressing the button in the centre console?

 

as that’s the only way to activate it. You should also get a small diagram on the dash of the type of space you are going into whether it’s parallel or bay.

 

Read the handbook before attempting it  it only controls steering, not braking or gears.

12 hours ago, Bap33 said:

I hate this kind of drivers! Way too common in Paris area... If you do have to park in Paris.........................

 

Leave your handbrake off and the car out of gear if parked in a line of vehicles like that in Paris - no incline, close parked, no division lines between spaces, Parisien drivers will reverse carefully and push the whole line of cars backwards or forwards to create enough room to get in or out, they get really grumpy if the one behind has the handbrake on 🤣

 

I drove to Monaco in a VW Combi around 1985 for the Grand Prix, drivers there did not do or perhaps did not know how to do hillstarts at traffic lights, each one would drive up to and bump the car in front and hold on the footbrake, when they pulled away they would not use the handbrake, the car behind would hold them, not knowing this we left a gap and every time the vehicle in front would roll back and crunch into us then swear and shake their fist as if it was my fault 😒 after that because the bumpers on a split screen Bedbug were proper iron I would leave a much bigger gap so they got up more speed and caused themselves more damage 😄

 

We parked up for the weekend in the street amongst a line of parking spaces like on the video, sleeping and eating in the van, all day long it was getting bashed into from parkers in front and behind, I would get out to remonstrate with the worst offenders only to find nobody in the car that had hit us, it was a driver 3 or 4 cars further along!

Actually thinking back the above was innacurate, at the traffic lights on hills drivers would leave a small gap, the car in front would roll back making contact and stopping, that was the cue for the driver to lift the clutch!

Doesn't work if they leave the handbrakes on 😂

 

 

On 21/12/2023 at 10:57, dg360 said:

It's the auto park feature. There is a button next to the sensor/camera button near the gear selector for this. 

 

Tried it once. Didn't offer much other than stress. Never bothered again.

Use it all the time; works brilliantly. 

34 minutes ago, numskull said:

Use it all the time; works brilliantly. 

Me too.

22 hours ago, Stonekeeper said:

Doesn't work if they leave the handbrakes on 😂

 

 

 

That is incredible, not only that he managed the manouevre but that when finished there was zero space in front or behind 😯

 

Look at the state of the bumpers on the other 2 cars! They were like that before he did his deed.