Kia Carnival 2023 Owner's Manual page 432

Driving your vehicle
OKA4050133L
WARNING
僅 Even vehicles equipped with Parking
Distance Warning, drive carefully and
always look around your vehicle to
make sure there are no objects or
obstacles behind. The operation of the
function can be affected by environ-
mental conditions. It is the responsibil-
ity of the driver to always check the
front and rear views before and while
parking.
僅 Your new vehicle warranty does not
cover any accidents or damage to the
vehicle due to the malfunction of For-
ward/Reverse Parking Distance Warn-
ing.
僅 Pay close attention when driving near
objects, pedestrians, and especially
children. Some objects may not be
detected by the ultrasonic sensors,
due to the objects distance, size or
material, all of which can limit the
effectiveness of the sensor.
Limitations
僅 Forward/Reverse Parking Distance
Warning may not operate normally
when:
- Moisture is frozen to the sensor
Forward/Reverse Parking Distance Warning (PDW)
- Sensor is covered with foreign
material, such as snow or water
(The function will operate normally
when such foreign material are
removed.)
- The weather is extremely hot or
cold
- The sensor or sensor assembly is
disassembled
- The surface of the sensor is
pressed hard or an impact is
applied with a hard object
- The surface of the sensor is
scratched with a sharp object
- The sensors or its surrounding area
is directly sprayed with high pres-
sure washer
僅 Forward/Reverse Parking Distance
Warning may malfunction when:
- Heavy rain or water spray is pres-
ent
- Water flows on the surface of the
sensor
- Affected by another vehicle's sen-
sors
- The sensor is covered with snow
- Driving on uneven road, gravel
roads or bushes
- Objects that generates ultrasonic
waves are near the sensor
- Installing the license plate differ-
ently from the original location
- The vehicle bumper height or ultra-
sonic sensor installation has been
modified
- Attaching equipments or accesso-
ries around the ultrasonic sensors
僅 The following objects may not be
detected:
- Narrow objects, such as corners of
square pillar
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