BMW X3 Owners Manual: System limits
No parking assistance
The parking assistant does not offer assistance
in the following situations:
Functional limitations
The system may not be fully functional in the
following situations:
- On bumpy road surfaces such as gravel
roads.
- On slippery ground.
- On steep uphill or downhill grades.
- With accumulations of leaves/snow in the
parking space.
Limits of ultrasonic measurement
Ultrasonic measuring might not function under
the following circumstances:
- For small children and animals.
- For persons with certain clothing, e.g.
coats.
- With external interference of the ultrasound,
e.g. from passing vehicles or loud
machines.
- When sensors are dirty, iced over, damaged
or out of position.
- Under certain weather conditions such as
high relative humidity, rain, snowfall, extreme
heat or strong wind.
- With tow bars and trailer couplings of other
vehicles.
- With thin or wedge-shaped objects.
- With moving objects.
- With elevated, protruding objects such as
ledges or cargo.
- With objects with corners and sharp edges.
- With objects with a fine surface structure
such as fences.
- For objects with porous surfaces.
Low objects already displayed, e.g., curbs, can
move into the blind area of the sensors before
or after a continuous tone sounds.
The parking assistant may identify parking
spaces that are not suitable for parking.
Malfunction
A Check Control message is displayed.
The parking assistant failed. Have the system
checked.
Check the traffic situation as well
Louds noises outside and inside the vehicle
can drown out the parking assistant's and
PDC's signals.
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