Remove ADAS?
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POIDH

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1,980 posts

82 months

Thursday 28th August
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2017 Fabia with the ADAS sensor only connected to warning light on dashboard. It does not connect to the braking system. MOT looms in October.

It has developed a fault. In my view a warning on the dash adds nothing to my safety - if anything the number of false positives is an issue.

Is there anyway of removing this system?

Peter T

152 posts

257 months

Thursday 28th August
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Actually it is connected to the braking system that is why you have it fitted. What is the problem of the unit? Has the front sensor become detached in some way? possibly through a car wash or small frontal impact? Best way forward is ascertain what is wrong and go from there.

cliffords

2,762 posts

40 months

Thursday 28th August
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I don't think it is connected to the brakes.
It just shows a warning on the dash re proximity.
I have a similar age car. It does not engage the brakes, you can drive into the back of the other car.

Writting for a friend of course.

stevemcs

9,573 posts

110 months

Thursday 28th August
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It has nothing to do with the mot ?

It seems on Skodas the bracket rusts and the sensor moves, you could just get it calibrated,

Sheepshanks

37,749 posts

136 months

Thursday 28th August
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They won't have fitted a radar sensor just to turn a light on. What's the point of that - warning you in case you're staring at the dash rather than looking at the road?

I'm sure the car will have both CEB (City Emergency Brake) and AEB (Autonomous Emergency Braking).

POIDH

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1,980 posts

82 months

Saturday
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Sheepshanks said:
They won't have fitted a radar sensor just to turn a light on. What's the point of that - warning you in case you're staring at the dash rather than looking at the road?

I'm sure the car will have both CEB (City Emergency Brake) and AEB (Autonomous Emergency Braking).
That is exactly what it does. I had a Leon before this of similar age with the same warning light and no brakes.
It has triggered a good few times - from warning of being too close to car in front to proper assuming I was going to hit wall on a country lane corner, thinking a humpback bridge was also a collision, not liking a tree filled roundabout, and so many more times. Between the Leon and this I have probably had the 'too close' warning in the hundreds of times, and the 'crash!' warning 30+ times.

You had to pay extra or go to posher model to get it connected to the brakes and the cruise control. In this car it most certainly is not connected to either brakes or cruise. My neighbour has a same age Superb and they have a bigger sensor and theirs is connected to cruise and brakes.

This then is why I wonder if I can remove. And a warning light of a safety system IS an MOT fail - I have even just booked in for my MOT and mentioned it to the garage who confirmed.

The sensor is completely clean. There is a slight movement when I give it a good wobble - but it is surrounded by plastic trim (as the sensor is smaller than the ones attached to brakes and cruise) so hard to tell if this is normal. I might wander around a few neighbours cars and ask to wobble theirs - we have 6 Skoda's in the cul-de-sac....

Sheepshanks

37,749 posts

136 months

Saturday
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Can you turn off front assist in settings?

POIDH

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1,980 posts

82 months

Yes - but it still throws the error. I'm assuming it 'checks' itself every drive, even when it's not switched on.