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csp

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"Warning approaching object"
« on: April 27, 2016, 10:45:23 AM »
My car warning system got itself in a knot whilst I was driving this morning, reporting "Warning approaching object" on the screen, I turned the parking sensors off but that made no difference, when I stopped I checked the camera and parking sensors were clean, the next time I started up everything was ok. The symbol was showing the front sensors flashing but there was no warning sound.

I hope this is not going to happen again but it looks like a bug in the software to me.

John Ratsey

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Re: "Warning approaching object"
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2016, 02:28:56 PM »
The warning on my Mk 3 was briefly triggered one day by a vehicle parked in a driveway on the outside of a bend, but it's otherwise been OK.
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Re: "Warning approaching object"
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2016, 02:48:35 PM »
Whatever happened to the Mk1 eyeball ?

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csp

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Re: "Warning approaching object"
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2016, 03:00:17 PM »
That is what I used to check the camera and sensors when I stopped.

The trouble is that a system error like that is more of a distraction than any help when you are driving.

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Re: "Warning approaching object"
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2016, 04:42:03 PM »
My Wife was driving yesterday and for no reason the rear approach warning came on ,yes I have had a tow bar fitted
  by my dealer and I turn the system off when towing but it has not been off for two weeks .I switch the system off and back on and it seem fine now but I cannot under stand why it should have just come when driving on the main road .
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Re: "Warning approaching object"
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2016, 05:23:14 PM »
I read this thread a couple of days ago and thought smugly "Nope, that's one problem I haven't got". And then today, for the first time in 5 months of ownership, it happened. It's just on the big touchscreen, there's nothing untoward on the circular multi-functional display (which usually shows parking sensor warnings as well). Nor do I remember getting the audible warnings that normally go with the parking sensors.

Now, my car suffers from the "Process system not responding" error and normally I cancel that notification; however today I couldn't be bothered and for the first time I just left it on the screen ... and suddenly for the first time I got the "Warning approaching object" error. I wonder if these are connected, ie the spurious "Approaching object" error is another symptom of an underlying android fault ?

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Re: "Warning approaching object"
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2016, 06:04:00 PM »
What is the "Warning, approaching object" alarm for? If it is to warn of an impending crash then putting the brakes on would be better, and I thought it was supposed to do that anyway.

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Re: "Warning approaching object"
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2016, 09:23:49 AM »
Warning approaching object, is activated by the front parking sensors when near a wall/car.
Well that's the only time I have seen it anyway.

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Re: "Warning approaching object"
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2016, 11:01:52 AM »
Oh, ok that makes sense. We have turned the parking sensors off as they scream when you put it in the garage.

csp

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Re: "Warning approaching object"
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2016, 11:08:29 AM »
The  "Warning approaching object" does appear when the car is close to an object ie when I put the car in the garage, but on one occasion the warning appeared when I was driving along and no where near any object and stayed on the LCD screen for the rest of the journey even when the parking sensors were switched to off.

I think this could be a software bug in the Android display unit as there was no warning sound.

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Re: "Warning approaching object"
« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2016, 11:40:17 AM »
Wonder what effect a squashed fly or other insect would have on front sensors,  I know when it get too much dirt or frost / ice on one or more of my rear sensors they stay on continuous tone all the time reverse is selected as though I am closer than 300mm to an object. 

I assume warning may stay on screen to show a front sensor was activated even when sound was turned off ??

I have noticed small birds,  mainly wagtails,  carrying out a 'dead insect' removal service on carparks by pecking dead insects off front bumpers and number plates - maybe they will now extend this to front sensors  ;)
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Re: "Warning approaching object"
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2016, 10:02:09 AM »
Lol, you should mine screaming when I park it in my garage  :D

But I also had it go off once when an HGV entered a roundabout and passed close behind me. There's also a right hand bend through a village called Anyho where cars parked in a dedicated 'layby' sometimes trigger it as I drive past.

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