1 minute ago, numskull said:

If you’re getting the flash when you start-up, the system is working. For obvious reasons, warnings on the OS are far more prevalent than the NS.

But to have had none in a 300 Mile drive. Either that is not correct, or the passenger side is a useless gimmick!

Will need to try some of these scenarios to confirm

Edited 1 June, 20251 yr by deedie

Or perhaps it’s just not encountered a situation where the system is triggered. Apart from that one incident, I can’t recall it activating.

Activated the rear traffic alert and then tried creeping up on a car and it worked? Disabled the rear traffic alert and it still worked.

So must have just been the fact it hadn't encountered any of those scenarios.

Not seeing many use cases for it. Wish it operated the same as the driver side one. Wonder if it can be coded for both to operate the same!

1 hour ago, numskull said:

Or perhaps it’s just not encountered a situation where the system is triggered. Apart from that one incident, I can’t recall it activating.

Nah, mine's on and off all the time in urban traffic - if the OP has not seen any evidence of it working it's probably busted.......

@Berisford Agree, it could be, but then again if there was a fault it wouldn’t show the flash on the startup.

@deedie Was your 300 mile journey on majority motorway, whilst being a centre lane hog at 52 mph with frustrated drivers under and overtaking you, or on A roads through city/town/village centres?

36 minutes ago, numskull said:

@Berisford Agree, it could be, but then again if there was a fault it wouldn’t show the flash on the startup.

@deedie Was your 300 mile journey on majority motorway, whilst being a centre lane hog at 52 mph with frustrated drivers under and overtaking you, or on A roads through city/town/village centres?

36 minutes ago, numskull said:

@Berisford Agree, it could be, but then again if there was a fault it wouldn’t show the flash on the startup.

@deedie Was your 300 mile journey on majority motorway, whilst being a centre lane hog at 52 mph with frustrated drivers under and overtaking you, or on A roads through city/town/village centres?

As per my last message. The blind Spot detector is working fine, when trying it while going to work. I just don't really see when I would ever use it now.

And for the record. If I come across a centre lane hogger, and I'm in the inside lane. Then they are getting under taken. I can't stand centre lane hoggers

Edited 1 June, 20251 yr by deedie

Well as I said, it should activate every time you overtake something with a few mph speed differential and more to the point deactivate when it’s safe to pull in.

Edited 1 June, 20251 yr by nicknorman

4 minutes ago, nicknorman said:

Well as I said, it should activate every time you overtake something with a few mph speed differential and more to the point deactivate when it’s safe to pull in.

I generally overtake with a much higher speed differential. So no fear of that led dying anytime soon lol

Just now, deedie said:

I generally overtake with a much higher speed differential. So no fear of that led dying anytime soon lol

On a single carriageway road I’d agree. But on a multi-lane motorway surely that depends on how fast the other traffic is going? To be clear, I don’t think it’s useful when overtaking on a single carriageway road, but it is on a motorway when often people in adjacent lanes are going at quite similar speeds.

Has anyone taken their RHD car to a country where they drive on the right? If so, is the left hand mirror constantly triggered but the right hand mirror is not? Maybe this would prove they are both functioning as they should be.

I've not taken my current car out of the UK yet and I can't remember how well my last car with the warning lights in the glass worked abroad.

The BSM along with matrix LED lighting is in my humble opinion the two most useful things on the car for everyday driving. The BSM looks backwards and works as the name suggests to warn you when vehicles are approaching either side and alert you not to change lane if you want to avoid a collision. If you are in the fast lane barrelling past cars in the nearside lane then the BSM remains unlit because you are traveling faster than other vehicles