Parking sensors

[CRD]

This morning when reversing into my parking space, my rear parking sensors displayed I was coming into contact with an obstacle even though there was nothing behind me. The parking sensor light on the dash began flashing then the message 'Park Pilot not available' was displayed on the ICE screen. Parking sensors no longer work at all now even when trying to activate manually. Anyone else had this?

 

[Loz]

Were any of them iced up?

 

[CRD]

Were any of them iced up?

No, rear of van was clean. We had heavy snow yesterday but thawed completely overnight.

 

[Loz]

If this doesn't self heal then a scan should tell which one has the issue.

 

[CRD]

All working again today. Hopefully a one off....

 

[Davenjo]

I have a similar intermittent problem with one of my rear sensors sometimes going off as soon as I move into reverse, other times it works fine. I mentioned it to the dealers when I took it in for something else a while back and they said it was down to my after market tow bar (Tow Trust) not being coded correctly - they refused to even look at it - their advice was to take it back to where I had it fitted and get them to sort it out. Doesn't explain the intermittent nature of the problems though does it?? For me its not a major issue and, for the time being, I just live with it and am hoping someone at Bala will have time for a quick look in exchange for some beer tokens

 

[CRD]

I have a tow bar as well, but mine is the factory removable one.

 

[Pocc]

We're seeing this in later T6's a lot now. Intermittent faults on bare vans and converted vans. Dealers IMHO are taking a cop out and profiteering on this issue.

We had one customer told by a dealer that they would charge him 60 hrs @ £80/hour to diagnose fault if it was a 'converter caused fault' - but they'd reimburse that if it was a faulty sensor or the customer could 'pay' £475 to have it magically fixed without diagnosis and out with warranty - net result I had to cough up £475 as the converter for the magic non-diagnostic fix!

Interesting to read here that this is a common problem despite all the dealers saying they've never seen it before.

 

[Pauly]

If you listen to the dealers then it would seem most of them have never seen any faults, its like every report is just an unheard of blip with no explanation !!

 

[Pocc]

Yeah Paul, whats always amazing with this fault is how a hair dryer applied to the offending sensor quite often removes the screw that dealers say, we the converters, must've put in the wiring when we built it. Miracle!