Are you refering to the back facing portion of the sonar? There is no backup beeper when in reverse unless it's been added.

The sonar front and rear factory proximity beepers on my 06 occasionally are set at random times like in traffic, someones beside me or even when backing out of the driveway to close to the bushes.

The only way an 82 Rabbit is going to be less problematic (fuel injected gas) would be having a diesel one!
Thats hammer and anvil technology. I love my 84 VW Diesel.

 

Goodness, yes. Bosch K-Jet doesn't like gasoline with ethanol. I had an '84 Rabbit Diesel with sunroof way back when. It didn't have AC or power steering. I'd have traded the sunroof for power steering. I gave it up for a Previa which I wish I still had.

Our LE doesn't have proximity sensors and has beaten up bumpers to show for it.

Sixto
04 LE FWD 241k miles

 

The mother of all randomly beeping sonar threads:

2005 Sienna XLE Limited: Parking Sensors (sonar) go off while driving

Cleaning the switch with electrical contact cleaner would be a first step.

 

after 3 pages of what is happening and what can be done I will go and submerge the button with cleaner and if it continues I will hopefully press the button and just not use it. Thanks for pointing in the right direction .

 

Scrap yard? Ebay? I like the sonar so it would be worth $50 - $75 to me to swap out panel (Interchange Part Number 655-51369) with a used one. Check your local scrap yards - you might get it for less.

 

In the good ole days we had a whole slew of scrap yards in a long row and now, just industrial complexes . Scrap yards are a dying breed wiped out by newer cars that have units to plug in vs taking apart and fixing.

 

I've got several U-Pull&Pay scrapyards nearby. I like them because they list inventory and part prices. All DIY and they post VINs and photos of the inventory:

Search

www.upullandpay.com

HEATER CONTROL PANEL DIGITAL
$25.50 + $3.11

 

In the good ole days

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The fact that you're still daily driving an 18 year-old vehicle and that it's sonar system functioned at all for as long as it did should speak volumes to the quality that went into building it. Daily driving an 18 year-old car without major mechanical issues was absolutely unheard of in "the good ole days"

Need I remind you - hitting 100k miles was a big milestone even into the 90s.

we had a whole slew of scrap yards in a long row and now, just industrial complexes .

I'm almost 40. The junkyards I ventured through as a teenager are still in business today. Some of them even grew in size. I still venture through those yards today.

Maybe it's just your area.

Scrap yards are a dying breed wiped out by newer cars that have units to plug in vs taking apart and fixing.

Maybe you should direct your ire towards those who oppose Right To Repair legislation.

 

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I'm almost 40. The junkyards I ventured through as a teenager are still in business today. Some of them even grew in size. I still venture through those yards today.

Maybe it's just your area.

Junkyards disappearing was a huge thing... Loads of new environmental regs were on the horizon, steel scrap prices were at all-time highs, large corporate "secondary parts distributors" came into existence intercepting a lot of the scrapped vehicles, and real estate values went through the roof. Tons of family yards closed or sold out to larger operations and have been replaced by commercial or industrial sites. I'm actually surprised more of the ones near me haven't gone away yet.

 

So now the sonar is back working as it should but today on a curve at 60km 40 mph on mine, the skidding out of control light popped up with that wonderful sound and the brakes were applied by the machine looking after me . Sorry but as this creature ages I am getting more convinced of getting extreme low tech car with triple the fuel mileage. The skidding out of control light has come on on flat straight roads as well? My VSC light comes on in one spot consistently in west Vancouver going up 8 curves to get to a straight stretch where it decides to come on? Minor but annoying.

 

The "skidding out of control light" is whats known as the "traction control" light. It's coming on in curves because the steering angle sensor isn't calibrated. This should be done every time you get it aligned.

The exact same thing happened to me in 2021, right after I bought my van - I had to get it aligned anyway because I replaced the steering rack, so I told the shop to make sure that the steering angle calibration gets done. Hasn't had an issue with that ever since.

Because the steering angle sensor is not calibrated, the computer thinks the steering wheel is in a different position that it actually is. The computer only sees what it's being fed.

For simplicity's sake - it sees the calculated steering wheel position and speed of the vehicle, takes that and calculates the vehicle's expected behavior, and compares it to the vehicle's actual behavior. If it doesn't match, the computer does the "safe" thing by reducing engine power to prevent spinning out of control - even if it's not actually going to spin out.

I would just take it to an alignment shop and have them calibrate it. Does not take long, any shop with a computerized alignment system made within the last couple decades can do it, and if you look around, you might find someone who will do it for cheap. Either that, or stick to your promise of ditching it for an 82 VW Rabbit 😂

 

82 wabbit with Super Man inspired manual steering

 

Yes one less thing to break down ! last year the Sienna got a new power steering pump.

 

True that.