Alpine A110 - Front Parking Sensors

[lilwashu]

My MY23 A110 has front and rear parking sensors fitted plus the reversing camera. I’ve noticed that the front sensors rarely if ever activate when driving slowly up to an object when in D, but will activate immediately if I put the car into reverse.

This means that if I park up fairly closely to an object nose in (with no response from the front sensors), when I put the car into reverse to back out of the space, the front sensors immediately activate and tell me how close I am to the object I now have very little chance of hitting.

Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?

[lilwashu]

I've not come across a car that requires reverse to be engaged to activate front sensors before, usually they activate when driving below certain speeds (the manual indicates they come on below 6mph). I'll get the garage to have a look when it goes in for a service.