Front Parking Sensors

[Rudyard]

I've just taken delivery of a 2016 Rav 4 Excel TSS and am having trouble with the front parking sensors. Turning them on and off is via the < ○ > menu on the steering wheel rather than the switch shown in the manual. In slow moving traffc and especially at lights the buzzer sounds which is a bit annoying.  Should I only turn them on when parking?

 

[philip42h]

The simple answer is 'yes' - use the front parking sensors only when you actually need to ... they are completely 'daft' in normal motoring as they get triggered in all manner of situations.

Is there no physical switch fitted?

[Rudyard]

Thank you. That does make sense.  No there is no physical switch, which makes turning them on and off slightly tedious.  The manual does show a physical switch for the 4 sensor version but on the 8 sensor version I need to use the meter control menu on the steering wheel.

[daveh_rav4]

Parking sensors!  lel... A trip to Spec-savers sorted mine out; you know, those shiny things in your head attached to your brain... 

In fifty years of driving I have never hit anything while parking (a deliberate nudge does not count) and I drive most every day.  It's a sad, sad world... :(

Dave

[152bobby]

Personally, I have had both front and rear sensors on my last couple of cars, I also have a rear view camera....they all came with the car!!! 

My front sensors are auto. I can switch them off if needed and to be honest, only done that a few times when I was in a car park and pedestrians where walking in front of the car.

Problem is, if you switch them on and off only when needed, one day you will forget and hit something!!! 

Anyway, each to their own.

[daveh_rav4]

Bobby... all this electronic gizmo garnish is just a load of old tosh as far as I am concerned and just pushes the price of vehicles up and up and makes them more complicated and fault prone than what they need to be.  Each manufaturer seems to be hell-bent on trying to 'out do' each other on who has the most worthless gadgets on board. 

What with driver-less cars, auto braking, auto sensor lights, auto engine off, auto parking etc.  it won't be long before humans are just going to be body-less, limb-less brains contained in a bucket of primeavel soup on the back seat while the car does it all.  I actually enjoy 'driving' my car with my brian engaged and all my senses and limbs working... it's called 'life'!  We are all a long time dead and then we won't be able to enjoy driving a car/vehicle or doing all the other things humans enjoy.  All the effort being employed developing driver-less cars just astounds me... with millions un-employed, do we really need or want vehicles that drive themselves?  Ask a person who drives for a living if he would rather remain idle and un-employed while he watches the clever new vehicle he used to drive driving itself around... I know what his answer would be!

We are all going to hell in a dog cart... LOL

CLANG!!!    Opp's, sorry... that was moi falling off my soap box :)

[152bobby]

 I tend to agree with you, however my current car came with all these options fitted, the previous owner was the one that took the hit ....thank you very much!!