Volkswagen Golf 2021 Owner's Manual page 189

When the prompt to park appears →
lect a different parking mode by pressing the
button → fig. 119 again. After all relevant parking
modes have been displayed, Park Assist switches off
automatically. The originally recommended parking
mode is displayed again if you press the
→ fig. 119 another time.
If you wish to drive into a perpendicular parking
space instead of backing in, select "Forward perpen-
dicular parking" → fig. 120
will back into the perpendicular parking space.
Park Assist can also be switched on after driv-
ing past a parking space; if the parking space
meets system requirements, it appears on the dis-
play.
Parking with Park Assist
Please read the introductory information and
heed the Warnings and Notice
185.
Fig. 121 In the instrument cluster display: Parking per-
pendicular to the road.
Key to fig. 121:
Searching for a parking space
Positioning the vehicle for parking
Maneuvering in the parking space
Prompt to drive forward
1
Your vehicle
2
Parked vehicles
3
fig. 121 , se-
5
button
. Otherwise, the vehicle
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Parking space detected
4
Arrow indicating the parking suggestion
5
(prompt to park)
Prompt to press the brake pedal
6
Progress bar: Symbolic display of the relative re-
7
maining distance
The requirements for parking using Park Assist must
be met → page 186, Requirements and the vehicle
must not be moving.
— Release the steering wheel when the following
message is shown in the instrument cluster dis-
play:
Auto. steering active. Check surround. area!
troduction on page 185.
— Shift into reverse (R) when the prompt to back up
appears in the instrument cluster display.
— Check the area around the vehicle and carefully
back up. Do not exceed 4 mph (7 km/h). The Park
Assist system will only turn the steering wheel
during the parking procedure. The driver must
control the accelerator, the brake, and the trans-
mission selector lever/gearshift lever.
— Back up until there is a continuous tone from the
Park Distance Control (PDC) system, OR until
a chime sounds and the
prompt to drive forward appear in the instrument
cluster display.
— Drive forward until a chime sounds and the
prompt to back up is displayed in the instrument
cluster.
— Repeat backing up and driving forward until the
message
Park Assist ended!
cluster display.
Wait until Park Assist has stopped turning the steer-
ing wheel at the end of each parking maneuver for
an optimal parking result.
Stopping the parking maneuver too soon
could lead to less than optimal parking results.
If there is not enough room to maneuver the
vehicle, the suggested parking space may still
be shown in the instrument cluster display. Howev-
er, you will not be prompted to park.
→ in In-
symbol along with the
is shown in the instrument
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