As the title says, the front assist on our 4 month old T6.1 Shuttle just activated when there was no traffic or parked cars near to us. The icon on the display in front of the driver lit up in white and the brakes banged on.
I have checked the manual and it says that it will display as a red icon (this was most certainly white, my wife saw it as well). the manual says that the sensor could be covered in snow, I checked and there is clearly no snow anywhere near my car today as it’s currently 23°C. I have checked the sensor for debris and there were a couple of very small flies on it.
The only other thing that has happened is that it is an adapted vehicle with a push button on the dash for the handbrake as my wife is disabled. back on 11th August the handbrake failed in the on position. the RAC attended and managed to back the handbrake off and we used it for over a week with no issues at all. in fact we towed a caravan with it several hundred miles in that time. Today, an “engineer” attended from the conversion company to look at it and see if it needs any parts to fix it. He was under the van for about half an hour with his spanner’s and told us that it needed a new motor to fix it properly but he had backed the handbrake off as he thought it was binding on the passenger side rear.
After he left, we took it for a drive, approx 4 miles, during which I was moaning about some young lads in car in front of us saying it smelt very odd. Much to my embarrassmenot when I stopped and got out I could then tell it was, you guessed it, the right rear brake that stank and the wheel was actually almost too hot to touch. I let it cool down and limped the car home carefully. While doing 20mph this is when the front assist lit up white and banged the brakes on.
Has anybody got any clues please? We are now going to be left without this vehicle for potentially weeks, not only Is this going to ruin the rest of this weeks holiday for my wife nd I but it means she won’t be able to get to work next week.
Sorry for the long post.
I have checked the manual and it says that it will display as a red icon (this was most certainly white, my wife saw it as well). the manual says that the sensor could be covered in snow, I checked and there is clearly no snow anywhere near my car today as it’s currently 23°C. I have checked the sensor for debris and there were a couple of very small flies on it.
The only other thing that has happened is that it is an adapted vehicle with a push button on the dash for the handbrake as my wife is disabled. back on 11th August the handbrake failed in the on position. the RAC attended and managed to back the handbrake off and we used it for over a week with no issues at all. in fact we towed a caravan with it several hundred miles in that time. Today, an “engineer” attended from the conversion company to look at it and see if it needs any parts to fix it. He was under the van for about half an hour with his spanner’s and told us that it needed a new motor to fix it properly but he had backed the handbrake off as he thought it was binding on the passenger side rear.
After he left, we took it for a drive, approx 4 miles, during which I was moaning about some young lads in car in front of us saying it smelt very odd. Much to my embarrassmenot when I stopped and got out I could then tell it was, you guessed it, the right rear brake that stank and the wheel was actually almost too hot to touch. I let it cool down and limped the car home carefully. While doing 20mph this is when the front assist lit up white and banged the brakes on.
Has anybody got any clues please? We are now going to be left without this vehicle for potentially weeks, not only Is this going to ruin the rest of this weeks holiday for my wife nd I but it means she won’t be able to get to work next week.
Sorry for the long post.
