New car owner

pheveey · Feb 12, 2015

Hi All

Long time reader of the forum, finally taken delivery of a frost white 4hs.
Loving the first few days of ownership.
I'm starting to realise there are a lot of buttons on the car to play with.
I also had front and rear parking sensors fitted as an extra ( used to having those on a previous car).

Here are a few questions. hope you lovely people will help me answer.

1. The front sensors do not beep when it sees an obstacle in front, also, I notice that there are only two sensors on either ends of the front bumber, is that normal or have they forgotten to fit the other two?

2. There seems to be an extra buckle like device in the back seat, (looks like a seat belt buckle but with a much smaller slot than a regular one, and I have 3 seatbelt clips for the three rear seats). can someone tell me what it is for?

Couldn't find answers to the above questions on the manual. just wondering if people know the answers.

Thanks in advance.

jaapv · Feb 12, 2015

1. The front ones are indeed pretty useless; there is a blind spot in the middle.
2. That is for a baby seat.

Tweeds · Feb 12, 2015

Is it for the end of the middle seatbelt, that normally lives in the roof?

PHEV2014 · Feb 12, 2015

Tweeds said:
Is it for the end of the middle seatbelt, that normally lives in the roof?

Correct.

phil4146 · Feb 13, 2015

jaapv said:
1. The front ones are indeed pretty useless; there is a blind spot in the middle.

To be fair Mitsubishi do call them front corner sensors in the catalogue and it was suggested by the garage that is because that is the need most people have for front sensors - if it is something like parking close to a car in a space mine work OK.

Is it silly not to provide two extra sensors - yes - but there a few other thing Mitsubishi seemed to have left off a car of this price that are in my mind 'cheap' savings (like not having them as standard in the first place

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DrSlackBladder · Feb 13, 2015

Exactly; treat them as nothing more than corner sensors and you'll be ok, they beep at something like 0.75m from an obstacle and the beeping intensifies at something like 0.5m and again at something like 0.25m. If you're pulling up to a lamp post or similar in the centre of your front bumper you gotta know the length of your car in the good old fashioned way!