Park assist- Perpendicular parking ?
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Park assist- Perpendicular parking ?
Can anyone confirm if the UK W205 has this facility ? I've never yet seen the 'parking space' indicator appear for anything but parallel spaces. Thanks
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It does work. But in my experience, by the time it's decided the space is right, and I've faffed with the buttons, and got it all going, I could have parked the car manually myself.
The parallel park is much more useful because it knows if the space is long enough. No guessing on your part.
The parallel park is much more useful because it knows if the space is long enough. No guessing on your part.
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Yes, it works fine.
You can tell whether it will be parallel or perpendicular on the display when you select.
Bear in mind, though, that the perpendicular will only work into a space between two parked cars, if there are two spaces, then it will try to parallel park!
Trouble is, who wants to park their car between two others - I tend to drive around until I find an out-of-the-way space as a far away from all the SUVs and people carrier's!
You can tell whether it will be parallel or perpendicular on the display when you select.
Bear in mind, though, that the perpendicular will only work into a space between two parked cars, if there are two spaces, then it will try to parallel park!
Trouble is, who wants to park their car between two others - I tend to drive around until I find an out-of-the-way space as a far away from all the SUVs and people carrier's!
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I've never noticed mine identify single spaces, is there something in the menu that I have to activate for Perp Parking ? Can't find any info on the digital manual
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Tried it in Tesco car park tonight. Drove past single spaces slowly with both indicator on and off and nothing happened. How does it identify that it has found a space ? Parallel parking ..no problem , I got that sussed
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I got it to work for the first time today (perpendicular spot). I was surprised at how far I had to drive past the open parking spot before the arrow displayed. And the first time I drove by, the arrow disappeared really quickly. (I turned around and went by again really slowly to catch the arrow). Once I put the car in reverse everything worked pretty well.
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I got it to work for the first time today (perpendicular spot). I was surprised at how far I had to drive past the open parking spot before the arrow displayed. And the first time I drove by, the arrow disappeared really quickly. (I turned around and went by again really slowly to catch the arrow). Once I put the car in reverse everything worked pretty well.
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You need to indicate if you want to park on the 'wrong' side of the road. So for left hand drive countries, you indicate if you want to park (parallel or perpendicular) on the right hand side of the road. And vice-versa for right hand drive countries.
Can't emphasise enough how slow you need to go, though. Less than 10kmh or 6mph IIRC. The parking sensors need to come on automatically.
Frankly I find it easier and faster to park the car myself.
Can't emphasise enough how slow you need to go, though. Less than 10kmh or 6mph IIRC. The parking sensors need to come on automatically.
Frankly I find it easier and faster to park the car myself.
Last edited by bensales; Oct 15, 2015 at 02:53 AM.
