Brand new Tiguan - error

**chapplenick** · 01-12-2018, 10:53 AM

Hi all, I just received my MY19 162 Tiguan yesterday. All was going ok until km 300 where a park pilot and rear cross traffic alert error shows up/beeps incessantly about twice a second (with seemingly no way to turn it off), rendering the car almost impossible to live with!

Does anyone have any tips? Presume it’s a sensor error but when I go to turn off rear cross traffic in the system I get a ‘this function is unavailable message). Is there, for instance, a way to reset or similar?

Thanks so much, appreciate any responses!

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**kamold** · 01-12-2018, 02:56 PM

Take it back to the dealer. Sounds like a sensor or control module fault. Something has come loose or failed.

**timholder57** · 01-12-2018, 06:12 PM

Sound obvious but check you haven't got some crap on the sensor.

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**chapplenick** · 11-12-2018, 08:50 PM

Took my Tiguan in for a service today (took me over a week to get a spot despite the vehicle being brand new). Was informed it was a software fault VW is aware of, however a fix is not yet available. They have apparently implemented a ‘stop gap’ solution and I have to take it back in a few weeks for ANOTHER software update.

Not an amazing start to the ownership experience, particularly with such few KM on the clock. Wondering how many MY19 Tiguans it affects, perhaps all of them?

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**tigger73** · 11-12-2018, 09:54 PM

Be interested to know how many are affected. But given it's a software fix it "should" be relatively painless.

Likely cars will just get the update when they come in for service and people will be none the wiser if they haven't ever had the fault come up.

**jolv** · 12-12-2018, 02:38 PM

Hm, wouldn't a software fault should impact everyone whom hasn't got the update/fix/patch, no?

**smarty** · 12-12-2018, 04:10 PM

Depends how it’s triggered or exactly when it rears up. It may only happen as a result of a certain chain of events, that unless mirrored by someone else exactly may not give them grief

**chapplenick** · 12-12-2018, 07:11 PM

They temporarily fixed it for me by adjusting the tone and loudness settings on my external sensors. Which suggests to me it was a freak combination of settings I had that caused the software fault!

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