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Anyone regret not having Parking Assistance Package?
My 2012 X5 has parking sensors and surround view cameras that provide a birds eye view of the car while parking. I find this enormously helpful while parallel parking in San Francisco and other situations like hooking up a trailer. These feature doesn't appear to be standard or common on the G05; you have to order the Parking Assistance Package ($700) which adds Surround View w/ 3D View (birds eye and 3D surround view accessible in car or remotely via smartphone), Parking Assistant Plus (automatic parking), and Active Park Distance Control (audible alerts tied to ultrasonic parking sensors front and rear).
There are some nice X5s in stock in the Bay Area that don't have the Parking Assistance Package. I am hesitant to compromise on this one since I use it so much. (I can go without the automatic parking gimmick but the cameras and sensors are very useful.) What is the parking experience like on the X5 without the Parking Assistance Package? (Do any of the features I mentioned above actually come standard?) Did anyone here not get the Parking Assistance Package and regret it?
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It's useful, but I think it's another feature that lets drivers forget how to drive. Knowing the dimensions of your vehicle, no matter how large, should be requisite knowledge. It's definitely nothing I miss when I drive other SUVs that don't have it. Cool feature, though.
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Its a good feature to have. I don't use often and tend to park myself but it has saved few times in tight spots where I would have taken extra time to park or completely ignored the spot thinking my car won't park in that space.
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I have it and love it, I also have cars that don't have it, considering what we're paying for these cars I got mine fully loaded except for night vision and massaging seats because I just figured all or nothing. I definitely appreciate the 360 view but haven't used the auto park feature yet.
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I think with cameras being so common on even the cheapest vehicle it would seem odd to even consider going without them. They should be standard equipment.
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02-09-2020, 05:48 PM | #9 |
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I agree. It would make sense for automatic parking or even the remote/smartphone surround view to be optional but to make undercamera mirrors an option for a $70K-$100K vehicle in 2020 is ridiculous.
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Can I offer a different perspective.
I stopped using the auto park feature after I discovered the system does not recognise painted parking lines. It only recognises and aligns to other parked cars or walls. So if you are reverse parking and the car(s) beside you is not parked straight, you will also not park straight in your parking spot. You have to cancel out of the system and straighten up yourself. In addition - I sometimes have to park in spots which the system says are too small to park in. So - again I find myself manually parking in spots, which the systems says is too small for my car. The system is far from perfect and has these limitations. |
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Stupid design in my opinion. However, that being said, I believe there thinking is that if there are no other cars or walls around why do you need the autonomous capabilities of the vehicle to help you park? There's nothing to hit/squeeze between in an empty parking lot. |
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The one feature that I didn't expect I'd use but now I actually use it on a daily basis and I sing its praises is the backup assistant. Getting out of the garage is made so incredibly easy with that feature, it would be hard to go back to a car without it.
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I think it includes drive recorder which could come in handy in an accident. |
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Counterpoint, I did not get it on my G06. I did have a loaner with the parking package, so I've been able to try it out, and I thought all the extra cameras were cool and all, but I back into most parking spaces and a camera and mirrors are all I've ever needed (really just mirrors, I barely even look at the backup camera and the view out the back of a X6 is NOT generous).
So, answering the subject question, I do not regret not having gotten it. |
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I have it and would have hated my x5 without it. My garage barely fits my x5 and I need to fold the mirrors to drive in. I use the auto backup to back out with the mirrors folded.
My only complaint is that it is very dim and hard to see surroundings when I am parking in the indoor lot at work. Anyone know how to make that brighter without making every thing else brighter? |
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Invaluable. Most other tech is fun, but not necessary. |
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The package is a nice add. Since the X5 is much larger than my previous car, I found myself using the 360 cam to make sure I wasn't accidentally parking too close to the white lines in parking spots (I'd hate to be the guy taking up two spots). |
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