Annoying rear parking sensors.

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Originally Posted by Fred Nerk

It is part of the test sequence.

In fact the message only is of relevance to markets where it is legal to disable the front passenger airbag and then put a baby capsule on the front seat. You can read about it in the manual. I don't think this is legal in Australia and we can't disable the air bag.

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I can and have disabled mine in my 2012 D4. The light will stay on after I use the key to turn it off.
It was just a test to see if it would work.
Brett

@ discotwinturbo: That is interesting, Brett. Mine is also a MY12 D4 yet the place where the airbag switch would be has a blank plastic panel. No key hole/switch.

You wouldn't happen to have an 8 gear transmission and left-hand drive too :D

I wonder how many variations between cars there are.:confused:

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Originally Posted by Fred Nerk

@ discotwinturbo: That is interesting, Brett. Mine is also a MY12 D4 yet the place where the airbag switch would be has a blank plastic panel. No key hole/switch.

You wouldn't happen to have an 8 gear transmission and left-hand drive too :D

I wonder how many variations between cars there are.:confused:

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Mine's the same as Fred's! :confused:

X2 Only a plastic plug.

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Originally Posted by Fred Nerk

@ discotwinturbo: That is interesting, Brett. Mine is also a MY12 D4 yet the place where the airbag switch would be has a blank plastic panel. No key hole/switch.

You wouldn't happen to have an 8 gear transmission and left-hand drive too :D

I wonder how many variations between cars there are.:confused:

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Yep...got the 8 speed....but in right hand drive.

Decided to leave 2 of the gears at the dealer though....did not think I would need them ;-)

Brett....

As mine only has rear sensors, it also doesn't have the switch. However I doubt that I'd use the switch even though I often reverse into tall vegetation because I wouldn't trust myself to remember to switch them back on. As it is, the sensors aren't re-activated when a trailer is disconnected until the iginition is cycled, which has caught me out a couple of times. BTW, I suspect the D4 is similar to the D3 whereby the switch only grounds 1 wire from the PDC ecu.

It should be like the reversing alarms on trucks, it starts beeping and you can cancel the alarm when you go out of reverse the alarm re-sets.

Maybe the button does only cancel for the current operation - I might have to read the book!

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Originally Posted by Graeme

Maybe the button does only cancel for the current operation - I might have to read the book!

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Graeme, that's right it does - put car in to reverse, parking sensors go crazy, hit the button to deactivate and silence, next change of gear (R to D or D to R) sensors are active again.