Volvo S40 Owner's Manual page 135

06 Starting and driving
Parking assistance (option)
Parking assistance both front and rear
Button for Off/On (here right-hand button).
The system is automatically activated when
the car is started and the lamp in the switch
06 for Off/On is illuminated. If parking assis-
tance is deactivated with the button, then the
lamp goes out.
Front
Front parking assistance is active at speeds
below 15 km/h. The system is deactivated at
higher speeds. The system is reactivated
when the speed falls below 10 km/h again.
The distance covered to the front of the car is
about 0.8 metres. The signal for obstacles in
front comes from the front loudspeakers.
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Limitations
Front parking assistance cannot be com-
bined with extra lights because the sensors
are affected by the extra lights.
Rear
Rear parking assistance is activated when
reverse gear is engaged.
The distance covered to the rear of the car is
about 1.5 metres. The signal for obstacles
behind comes from the rear loudspeakers.
Limitations
See the previous section Rear parking
assistance only.
Fault indicator
If the information symbol illumi-
nates with constant glow and the
display shows PARK ASSIST
SERVICE REQUIRED
ing assistance is disengaged.
Contact an authorised Volvo workshop for
attention.
IMPORTANT
In certain conditions the parking assistance
system may produce incorrect warning sig-
nals that are caused by external sound
sources that emit the same ultrasonic fre-
quencies that the system works with.
Examples of such sources include horns,
wet tyres on asphalt, pneumatic brakes and
exhaust noises from motorcycles etc.
then park-