Parking Beeper Volume
Discussion
Fingers crossed I'm just being silly, is there a way to make the rear parking beepers sound louder?
The front ones are plenty loud enough although I would still prefer them to be even more so, but the rear ones are pretty rubbish that if you're moving around in a garage it's really quite difficult to hear them over the exhausts as you reverse towards a wall.
I've always just told my passenger not to talk and really listened out for them but in Monaco there were cars coming and going from the garages so it was simply impossible to hear my beeps as I reversed and rendered them totally useless but for the life of me I've been unable to find anything in the software to make it louder.
The front ones are plenty loud enough although I would still prefer them to be even more so, but the rear ones are pretty rubbish that if you're moving around in a garage it's really quite difficult to hear them over the exhausts as you reverse towards a wall.
I've always just told my passenger not to talk and really listened out for them but in Monaco there were cars coming and going from the garages so it was simply impossible to hear my beeps as I reversed and rendered them totally useless but for the life of me I've been unable to find anything in the software to make it louder.
Shmee said:
Fingers crossed I'm just being silly, is there a way to make the rear parking beepers sound louder?
The front ones are plenty loud enough although I would still prefer them to be even more so, but the rear ones are pretty rubbish that if you're moving around in a garage it's really quite difficult to hear them over the exhausts as you reverse towards a wall.
I've always just told my passenger not to talk and really listened out for them but in Monaco there were cars coming and going from the garages so it was simply impossible to hear my beeps as I reversed and rendered them totally useless but for the life of me I've been unable to find anything in the software to make it louder.
get a hearing aid The front ones are plenty loud enough although I would still prefer them to be even more so, but the rear ones are pretty rubbish that if you're moving around in a garage it's really quite difficult to hear them over the exhausts as you reverse towards a wall.
I've always just told my passenger not to talk and really listened out for them but in Monaco there were cars coming and going from the garages so it was simply impossible to hear my beeps as I reversed and rendered them totally useless but for the life of me I've been unable to find anything in the software to make it louder.
Slightly off topic, but the knuckleheads on top gear used to moan about how so many cars had comprehensive lists of user configurable parameters - the old V10 M5 and some of the Evo models specifically.
For dinosaurs like them it may be tricky but if you have grown up wth computers then it's normal to have all sorts of parameters available for change. Hopefully in future AML will learn this lesson and allow more user involvement.
For dinosaurs like them it may be tricky but if you have grown up wth computers then it's normal to have all sorts of parameters available for change. Hopefully in future AML will learn this lesson and allow more user involvement.
Shmee said:
I've always just told my passenger not to talk...
Am I missing something here Shmee ?You have the best parking device known to man at your disposal.
It's called a passenger.
Instead of telling them to shut up, tell them to get out...when you feel the soft crunch of the patella and a blood-curdling scream, stop reversing.
Job's a good 'un.
Next Question, please
I'm too impatient to wait for passenger to get out and then reverse! And I'm not in a rush to "part-ex the Mrs"!
Anyway, there are clearly workarounds because I've been fine for nearly a year and 10k miles now but were there to have been a setting in the system to raise the volume it would have been nice.
Anyway, there are clearly workarounds because I've been fine for nearly a year and 10k miles now but were there to have been a setting in the system to raise the volume it would have been nice.
yeti said:
Having had mine split in half many years ago (and subsequently one half removed), I can confirm the blood-curdling scream, but there is no soft crunch, more of a crack *shudder*
Same here but I had the two halves wired together. I don't remember screaming but gas and air arrived before the adrenaline ran out. 
Edited by Captain Beaky on Wednesday 17th August 21:50
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