Technical features for driving comfort and safety
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Technical features for driving comfort
and safety
Park Distance Control
(PDC)
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The principle
PDC assists you when manoeuvring into a
parking space. Audible warning signals
indicate when the car is approaching an
obstacle. Four ultrasonic sensors in the
front and four in the rear bumper measure
the distance from the nearest object. The
sensors at the front and at the rear corners
have a range of about 60 cm (2 ft), and the
centre rear sensors a range of about
1.50 m (5 ft).
If the car is towing a trailer, the rear sensors
clearly cannot supply sensible signals and
therefore remain switched off.
Automatic function
With the ignition switched on, the system
is activated automatically after approx.
1 second when the selector lever is pushed
towards R.
Switching on manually
Press the button; the indicator light comes
on.
After a distance of approx. 50 m (approx.
164 ft) has been covered or a speed of
approx. 30 km/h (approx. 20 mph) is
exceeded, the system is deactivated and
the indicator light goes out. Switch the
system on again as necessary.
Switching off manually
Press the button again; the indicator light
goes out.
Audible warning signals
The distance from an obstruction is indi-
cated by an intermittent warning signal for
the part of the car in question. For instance,
if an obstruction is identified to the rear left
of the car, the warning signal sounds at the
rear left loudspeaker. The closer the car
approaches the obstruction, the more rapid
the sequence of signals. When the distance
from a detected object is less than approx.
30 cm (approx. 12 in), the signal becomes
continuous.
The signal is interrupted after approx.
3 seconds if you are driving parallel to a
wall.
Faults
The indicator light in the button flashes and
a message appears in the Check Control.
Observe the supplementary information in
the control display.
Switch off the system and have the cause
of the malfunction rectified by BMW
Service.
PDC with optical warning
You can have the distance from an obstruc-
tion indicated in the control display.
Obstructions that are further away from the
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