Hi all,
I'm wondering if anyone can share experience / advise on fixing the reversing sensors on my 2010 vRS. I have searched and read around the site (and other sites) as much as I could so apologies if this has been covered already and feel free to point me elsewhere.
A month ago I noticed that the PDC was intermittently not working - i.e. when I put the car in reverse the radio would continue to play and the PDC display would not come up, or would pop up very briefly and then disappear. My wife also noticed this when she backed in to a concrete wall in an underground carpark
(damage to be repaired after I get the sensors working!)
I had a fiddle around, reset the PDC settings via the cluster, etc. It continued working for another week or so but has since deteriorated in reliability to where it doesn't ever work now - the Bolero display doesn't respond at all to the car going in to reverse.
I have done the ticking test on all four (rear) sensors and all are ticking away happily, so I believe the sensors are OK. When I go in to the vehicle settings via the console, occasionally the "Assistant" menu for PDC settings doesn't exist at all, other times it does. When it does exist, the PDC volume and frequency are set to "4" and cannot be changed (it always resets to 4). Is it likely that the PDC module itself would fail?
I use Volkstech in Melbourne (Heidelberg) for servicing and am planning to take it to them to have a look but they have extended holidays over xmas until the end of Jan, so I've been trying to nut it out myself in the interim.
I suspect I will get stuck quickly without VCDS but if anyone has any ideas or previous fixes that they could offer, many thanks would be returned.
I'm wondering if anyone can share experience / advise on fixing the reversing sensors on my 2010 vRS. I have searched and read around the site (and other sites) as much as I could so apologies if this has been covered already and feel free to point me elsewhere.
A month ago I noticed that the PDC was intermittently not working - i.e. when I put the car in reverse the radio would continue to play and the PDC display would not come up, or would pop up very briefly and then disappear. My wife also noticed this when she backed in to a concrete wall in an underground carpark

I had a fiddle around, reset the PDC settings via the cluster, etc. It continued working for another week or so but has since deteriorated in reliability to where it doesn't ever work now - the Bolero display doesn't respond at all to the car going in to reverse.
I have done the ticking test on all four (rear) sensors and all are ticking away happily, so I believe the sensors are OK. When I go in to the vehicle settings via the console, occasionally the "Assistant" menu for PDC settings doesn't exist at all, other times it does. When it does exist, the PDC volume and frequency are set to "4" and cannot be changed (it always resets to 4). Is it likely that the PDC module itself would fail?
I use Volkstech in Melbourne (Heidelberg) for servicing and am planning to take it to them to have a look but they have extended holidays over xmas until the end of Jan, so I've been trying to nut it out myself in the interim.
I suspect I will get stuck quickly without VCDS but if anyone has any ideas or previous fixes that they could offer, many thanks would be returned.

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