Front parking assist

[jrkiwi]

I depend on my front end parking assist to let me know when my car is far wrought forward in my garage. Problem is it is intermittent, and seems to only work about half the time. Anyone else experience this strange behavior.

 

[Pahaska]

I use mine for the same purpose and it has been 100% so far. I drift slowly till the tone goes continuous and I know the garage door will clear. I stop within a range of about 3".

 

[Ernie3647]

Found it to be fairly consistent. Only thing I’ve noticed is on very low objects like a parking stop or curb I can’t wait for the continuous tone to stop.

 

[Coug]

The parking sensors on my 2012 worked well for the first year and a half, then were kind of spotty, and now really don't work at all. I have had alot of problems with electronics on my '12 Genny.

 

[ferrethouse]

I depend on my front end parking assist to let me know when my car is far wrought forward in my garage. Problem is it is intermittent, and seems to only work about half the time. Anyone else experience this strange behavior.

Yes. It works 50% of the time for me too.

 

[Pahaska]

The wall in fronnt of my car is very irregular with stored items. Also, I park at slightly differing angles in the crowded garage depending on whether my wife will need access to the passenger side. I have found that the relation of the sensors on the front bumper with the irregular wall ahead does make a difference in when the solid arc in the display comes on and therefore where the car ends up. In every case, though, it signals me at a safe distance.

 

[DKE850]

I had similar issues with my '15 Ultimate 5.0 AWD from day 2. As long as the conditions were dry, it was fine... but add rain or mist and an error (yellow triangle) would show up. Talk to dealer on two different occasions and they have now replaced the module. So far no problems... though I have not had any rain since then. My comment to the dealer service guys was, "so, there is no rain or mist in Korea?"

 

[italiabrain]

I have had 0 false negatives in my experience. It indicates every time I get near something. The indication is nice and linear as long as I'm creeping along at a steady speed. Sometimes it goes off when I've slowed down to a crawl to go up a steep driveway or something, but that's hardly an error of detection. I have, however, turned it off one time while going through a drive through and forgot to turn it back on. Luckily I wasn't depending on it in a totally mindless manor and noticed that it had usually at least turned on green by the point I was in my garage and I looked down to see that it was off before I backed through a wall. I'm at 1500 miles and use it twice a day.

 

[gojo]

I depend on my front end parking assist to let me know when my car is far wrought forward in my garage. Problem is it is intermittent, and seems to only work about half the time. Anyone else experience this strange behavior.

It just started being inconsistent. If I put it in reverse then drive it works every time. Strange. It will go in soon.

 

[HEY GURL]

Mine wasn't working every time either. UNTIL I discovered the Park assist button needs to be ON. Geeeez... hehe Now it works like a CHARM and chirps like a bird.

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[SH66]

For a newbie is there a link that has a video that explains exactly how this works? We have a very narrow driveway that we park the car in, will this function help avoid hitting the side of the house next to the driveway? I saw a video on a 2014 Sonata, but I think it was in Korean.

 

[gojo]

Mine wasn't working every time either. UNTIL I discovered the Park assist button needs to be ON. Geeeez... hehe Now it works like a CHARM and chirps like a bird.

HEY GURL, boy do I feel dumb. It's my wife car but I should have checked the button. But why did it sometimes work?
Thanks for the help!

 

[putputput]

The ultrasonic sensor is useless on the genesis. I disabled it because it often screwed things up immediately. Nothing about it was developed correctly.

-it doesnt turn down the music, so you dont hear the proximity sensor. immediate failure already.
-you can't tell if the front or rear is pinging by sound alone. you'll end up look down at the display, getting confused and rechecking 360 degrees outside. might as well turn it off and drive normally.
-the button is in the worst location. it silently disables the safety system leaving me with a false sense of protection. a few times i found it turned off and im not even sure how since i was the last person driving it
-there is no message that the safety system is off
-come back to sit your car it starts beeping LOUDLY and critically fast. because theres a wall in front of you and you're in reverse? every spot. every time. while the car is in reverse. why!?
-it. keeps. beeping. in. the. drive. thru. but im not even moving at all..

My other cars will lower the music, use the dozens of speakers to correctly identify the location, and have never been disabled once in 10+ years of ownership. I never even gave it any thought before. I'm shocked Hyundai's version is very bad. I never imagined a car could fail in every single way. I would be safer if it was removed. There hasn't been a day that it worked without requiring my attention. You have to juggle the volume and parking sensors constantly throughout the day. Every day it distracts you to use the parking sensor. Only to find it was silently turned off the day when you ran over and killed your child.

 

[Nikgen]

The ultrasonic sensor is useless on the genesis. I disabled it because it often screwed things up immediately. Nothing about it was developed correctly.

-it doesnt turn down the music, so you dont hear the proximity sensor. immediate failure already.
-you can't tell if the front or rear is pinging by sound alone. you'll end up look down at the display, getting confused and rechecking 360 degrees outside. might as well turn it off and drive normally.
-the button is in the worst location. it silently disables the safety system leaving me with a false sense of protection. a few times i found it turned off and im not even sure how since i was the last person driving it
-there is no message that the safety system is off
-come back to sit your car it starts beeping LOUDLY and critically fast. because theres a wall in front of you and you're in reverse? every spot. every time. while the car is in reverse. why!?
-it. keeps. beeping. in. the. drive. thru. but im not even moving at all..

My other cars will lower the music, use the dozens of speakers to correctly identify the location, and have never been disabled once in 10+ years of ownership. I never even gave it any thought before. I'm shocked Hyundai's version is very bad. I never imagined a car could fail in every single way. I would be safer if it was removed. There hasn't been a day that it worked without requiring my attention. You have to juggle the volume and parking sensors constantly throughout the day. Every day it distracts you to use the parking sensor. Only to find it was silently turned off the day when you ran over and killed your child.

Wow - my experience is opposite of yours - mine works very well and the sound does come from the speakers in the quadrant where the potential obstruction is. I've never had to play with it at all - if you can't hear it over the radio, you must have your music way too loud or the warning beep way too low.

 

[Tpr5.0]

Wow - my experience is opposite of yours - mine works very well and the sound does come from the speakers in the quadrant where the potential obstruction is. I've never had to play with it at all - if you can't hear it over the radio, you must have your music way too loud or the warning beep way too low.

^^^
This.

 

[Alwaysforward]

Same here. Never had an issue so far with it. Works every time. There is a setting in the system to turn off the volume adjustment during warning signals. Maybe your system is turned off on that function.

 

[putputput]

That's not true the genesis has no such feature. It has a "dumb" setting for low, medium, loud. The music usually drowns out all safety warnings.

 

[Sugrat]

Never had a problem not hearing it, I have it set to the maximum beep on mine and just like others have reported, I hear it come from the speaker which is closest to the object.

I think the sound option is set in the settings menu from the steering wheel and not the setup on the nav screen.

 

[Analog]

Is this a difference between Ultimate and non-Ultimate? My car has the Tech package and the sound is not directional.

Thought I had looked at all the settings in both menu systems, but maybe not? I definitely would have enabled something mentioning directional warning tones, that would be really useful. In fact my rear cross traffic alert is probably worthless as I'm backing up from my driveway because my system is so busy beeping about the bushes on my back right, the pavement that I'm never going to hit (on a hill,) etc.

That being said, in virtually all other scenarios the parking system is still worthwhile. I've found it to be very reliable for distances, and to date I don't think it's missed any obstructions.

 

[kn5owa]

Mine wasn't working every time either. UNTIL I discovered the Park assist button needs to be ON. Geeeez... hehe Now it works like a CHARM and chirps like a bird.

But, does it stay on?

One problem is that the documentation (p. 3-128) is written like the tax code.

It is clear enough that the ultrasonic goes on automatically when reversing as did all my previous cars with that feature.

And I gather that if you want the feature in drive gear, you have to ask for it by pushing the console button.

But it seems to be a temporarily enabled feature in drive. Apparently, when you reach a certain speed, it switches off and stays off. If you need it again in drive, then you have to re-enable it. It does not stay on - I am currently experimenting.