Does any one else find the parking beeps annoying and almost usless?

[Robin]

The Count likes to know when he is scratching a neighboring vehicle.

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[Neuneleven]

Do you use the tone or the visual representation on the dash? I have a pretty narrow garage front to back as well and what I did was mark on the floor and I align the camera with the mark. Just curious how others do it.

i use both. I actually have a decent sized garage depth but have a work bench up front with occasionally open drawers. I also like to pull forward quite a bit so i can despite those objects still open the trunk safely without scratching it with closed garage doors

 

[COdogman]

I have about 2-3" either end to fit into my garage, I haven't turned off the parking assist, I just ignore it

Installed one of these: https://www.amazon.com/GoodChief-Universal-Laser-Parking-Assist/dp/B07HHGRWS8

And a small bump stop as a "last resort" and I don't need to worry too much about it. Laser guide is just modern day "tennis ball" but with such small margins on either end it's great to have to make things repeatable. Just line it up on the dash and you know you're good. Bump stop is like 1" past "ideal" but to be honest most times i just try to lightly "bounce" off it and catch the rollback and it lines things up pretty much perfectly. Laser takes like 10 minute to install, it's cheap and simple but that's all it needs to be.

Pics make it look like there's more room than there is - slight fisheye I think, and the rear one is too dark to see the actual bumper which is literally about 3" from the door at the nearest point - but it's all dialed in now and works great - no need to care or listen to parking sensors they'd never be able to give any indication of such small distances to be useful. They just sit in the red the whole time lol

I have the same laser guide from my previous tiny garage - it works great! I was going to install it in my current tiny garage, but I have found using the front facing camera when I park does basically the same thing. I stop when the bumper in the view crosses a specific part of the wall.

I haven’t turned the beeps off yet, but I’ve thought about it.

 

[RexRemus]

I have the same laser guide from my previous tiny garage - it works great! I was going to install it in my current tiny garage, but I have found using the front facing camera when I park does basically the same thing. I stop when the bumper in the view crosses a specific part of the wall.

I haven’t turned the beeps off yet, but I’ve thought about it.

I was worried the camera just wouldn't be accurate enough to gauge, so figured that was the easiest way to not have to worry about it. Works great. Plus I have an 18yr-old who rarely, VERY rarely gets to drive it, and trying to describe the sight picture of "now you're parked" if you can't get some obvious and clear marker they will remember is a lot harder to explain to another human than "put the red crosshairs HERE" So it just made more sense to go the other way. Knowing the camera is actually viable is a good bit of information for the next place - but my hope for that is to have a garage where you simply don't need to care and passengers don't have to get out BEFORE pulling in because I am scraping the wall with the right side of the vehicle... But stuck here at least for another year or two so lasers it is!

 

[COdogman]

I was worried the camera just wouldn't be accurate enough to gauge, so figured that was the easiest way to not have to worry about it. Works great. Plus I have an 18yr-old who rarely, VERY rarely gets to drive it, and trying to describe the sight picture of "now you're parked" if you can't get some obvious and clear marker they will remember is a lot harder to explain to another human than "put the red crosshairs HERE" So it just made more sense to go the other way. Knowing the camera is actually viable is a good bit of information for the next place - but my hope for that is to have a garage where you simply don't need to care and passengers don't have to get out BEFORE pulling in because I am scraping the wall with the right side of the vehicle... But stuck here at least for another year or two so lasers it is!

I think you definitely did the right thing. I am the only one driving mine, so I don't have any of those other factors. If I had a teenager driving mine at all I would probably line the garage walls and everything in it with bubble wrap and have lasers, bells and sirens installed! You must have ice water flowing through your veins?

 

[RexRemus]

I think you definitely did the right thing. I am the only one driving mine, so I don't have any of those other factors. If I had a teenager driving mine at all I would probably line the garage walls and everything in it with bubble wrap and have lasers, bells and sirens installed! You must have ice water flowing through your veins?

I am lucky, he's a really good kid and we spent a good part of pickup day (he came with) having him learn how to deal with one-pedal until he was ok getting on a road and in traffic with it (very slow road and very light traffic lol) and then we moved onto parking - he was already aware of how tight things were and was able to park the MDX (previous vehicle) every bit as well as I would - it was snug but not AS snug as the R1S -but it's not like he didn't have a lot of experience getting an SUV into this garage, he knew to "just barely not clip" the passenger mirror on the way in to know you are far enough over, it it was really just getting him to have good low speed throttle control (a little different in an EV) and then line up the marks to stop - it's also why I have the bump stop on the floor - just added feedback. So far the 2-3 times he's needed to use it go out it's been fine. HE has been sweating about it more than I have at this point - parkling it, I sweat more with him out on the road lol but it's short trips, and like I said it's been 3-4 times over about 2 months now, so it's not often.

 

[Milermore]

.... Bump stop is like 1" past "ideal" but to be honest most times i just try to lightly "bounce" off it and catch the rollback and it lines things up pretty much perfectly.

I use the same 'bump' and it works great. I just had to make sure it was affixed to the floor with the included double-sided tape so it doesn't slide.

 

[dleepnw]

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[RexRemus]

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