Careful: Nose Overhang Easily Scraped!!
05-23-05, 08:01 AM
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Careful: Nose Overhang Easily Scraped!!
i LOVE my GS3, especially the styling...but it does have the lowest front overhang of any vehicle i've ever owned, and that includes two SC coupes.
even though i have the park assist, and it has beeped at me before when i pull into a parking space, i have now scraped the underside of the front nose several times. it's the curbs around here...sometimes they're big concrete slabs with iron spikes driven thru to hold them to the parking lot pavement.
the problem is that you may indeed glide just fine over the top of such a curb, but if you add a passenger and then attempt to back up, their extra weight may have lowered the nose so that it hooks on the curb. i actually pulled out of a space this past saturday after adding a passenger, heard the front end of the car give that blood-curdling scrape, and sure enough, i had done it again. left some nasty nasty scars on the underside of the nose. doesn't show unless you lean down and examine closely.
so, beware. potentially expen$ive situation, especially if you're parked with the nose over a curb, 3 buddies from the office jump in to go to lunch, you back out, and the front nose bumper pulls off. yikes!
even though i have the park assist, and it has beeped at me before when i pull into a parking space, i have now scraped the underside of the front nose several times. it's the curbs around here...sometimes they're big concrete slabs with iron spikes driven thru to hold them to the parking lot pavement.
the problem is that you may indeed glide just fine over the top of such a curb, but if you add a passenger and then attempt to back up, their extra weight may have lowered the nose so that it hooks on the curb. i actually pulled out of a space this past saturday after adding a passenger, heard the front end of the car give that blood-curdling scrape, and sure enough, i had done it again. left some nasty nasty scars on the underside of the nose. doesn't show unless you lean down and examine closely.
so, beware. potentially expen$ive situation, especially if you're parked with the nose over a curb, 3 buddies from the office jump in to go to lunch, you back out, and the front nose bumper pulls off. yikes!
05-23-05, 10:25 AM
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sorry to hear; and thanks for the warning. i also noticed that the GS hangs almost as low or as low as the SC, and i have so far managed to stay at least 4-5 inches away from those concrete parking curbs. (i learned it the hard way after scraping the SC twice). i've seen those ones with the rebar (sp?) and my friend with an SLK took off her undercarriage tray that way 
just out of curiousity - is the parking assist designed to warn you of height obstacles too, or only distance? on my sticker, the thing was called "clearance sonar", which implies it can warn you when parking near these types of parking curbs ... but i don't trust it entirely .
just out of curiousity - is the parking assist designed to warn you of height obstacles too, or only distance? on my sticker, the thing was called "clearance sonar", which implies it can warn you when parking near these types of parking curbs ... but i don't trust it entirely .
05-23-05, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by lexuslover
sorry to hear; and thanks for the warning. i also noticed that the GS hangs almost as low or as low as the SC, and i have so far managed to stay at least 4-5 inches away from those concrete parking curbs. (i learned it the hard way after scraping the SC twice). i've seen those ones with the rebar (sp?) and my friend with an SLK took off her undercarriage tray that way
just out of curiousity - is the parking assist designed to warn you of height obstacles too, or only distance? on my sticker, the thing was called "clearance sonar", which implies it can warn you when parking near these types of parking curbs ... but i don't trust it entirely .
just out of curiousity - is the parking assist designed to warn you of height obstacles too, or only distance? on my sticker, the thing was called "clearance sonar", which implies it can warn you when parking near these types of parking curbs ... but i don't trust it entirely .
As for the height vs. distance, I believe it's distance only -- there are 3-4 sensors on the front bumper and it nothing is directly in front of those sensors, I don't believe you'll get warned.. I would be nice if there was a sensor under the car to see things like curbs before you park on top of them, or at least a wide-angle sensor that could see 180 degrees or so..
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