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Parking Sensor False Alarm

pjr

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Location
Scotland
Had a weird parking sensor alert this evening when coming home from work - I was sitting at a T junction as a street sweeper truck crossed in front of me, and the front parking sensors went crazy - solid beep & red sectors on the display.

What was particularly strange was that I was sitting back from the junction, and the truck probably passed at least 10 feet away from my car - I had deliberately sat back from the give way line, as the road was covered in mud from a nearby building site, and I didn't want the brushes to splatter the front of my car with wet mud....

I guess the rotating brushes may have given off a strange signature that the car picked up ?
 

proton

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Location
Yorkshire
I've had it several times when lorries or buses pass in the opposite direction. The red segments can stay until you move off again. I've assumed it's particles in the air the sensors have reacted to.
 

GeoBog

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It happened to me a few times, especially when it was raining. The most annoying thing is the music volume is dimmed by the parking sensors beep.
 

pjr

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Location
Scotland
I've had the sensors go off in heavy traffic before, but what surprised me this time was how far away I was from the truck.

As soon as it had passed the sensors went back to normal.
 

BaGTD

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Location
S W Scotland
This has happened to me twice, once stationary with traffic to either side and behind, the other driving down the road with nothing near me. I took it into the dealer and apparently they updated the software. As yet, around a month later, there has been no recurrence.
 
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