NewcastleFalcon wrote: 21 Jul 2020, 18:39
Simon,
A couple of questions if you dont mind.
Does this button on your car have any discernable effect? ie does your car make the low speed noise either forward or reverse. Mine doesnt even though pressing the button does activate the little light on the switch.
Yes the button works on my car. The button is actually a pedestrian warning sound
disable button. So when the light is lit the sound is disabled. When you start the car it (by law) always defaults to the sound being enabled, which is the light being off.
If you're driving around in urban areas where pedestrians are likely to walk in front of you it's probably best to leave it on, however if you're trying to come and go from the house at early hours and don't want to bother the neighbours you can turn the sound off, which makes it almost silent when moving slowly.
The noise comes from the front of the car somewhere and sounds like a tone which varies in pitch with road speed and isn't particularly audible from inside the car I find, however you'll hear it if you wind the windows down and drive along beside a wall.
The tone stops when you're stationary and also stops when you go above 20mph. To confuse matters the motor itself (or maybe the drive inverter) under the bonnet also makes a tone like noise at lower speeds so when the pedestrian warning sound is active there are actually two different speed sensitive tones that are audible...
The warning sound only operates in drive not in reverse. I guess for it to be useful in reverse there would need to be a separate speaker at the rear and they decided not to do that for whatever reason. Personally I think a reversing warning would be more useful than a forwards moving warning!
Also, you may know I abandoned all efforts to do the Nissan Connect thing. Never missed it can happily do without it. I'm sure you will have it singing and dancing, but is there a subscription you have to take out for the connectivity?
I haven't got mine working yet, to set it up you create a You+Nissan account (which I've done) and then enter the VIN number of the car into the account to assign the car to your account - when I try to do this it says the VIN is already assigned to another account - eg the previous owner's...
So I've emailed Nissan support to see if they can delete the car from the previous owners account. From what I've heard on speakev they will do this with a scanned copy of the V5C to prove I'm the new keeper of the car, however last time I contacted Nissan support by email it took them a few days to respond, so we'll see.
In the mean time the previous owner could theoretically check my cabin temperature and battery charge, stop/start my charges and turn my climate control on and off...
No there is no subscription cost to use the service. From what I've heard it's a bit unreliable and flakey anyway (poorly run servers probably) so I'm not expecting much, but if it works after a fashion and is free, why not ? And I'd rather sort out the fact that the previous owner still has theoretical access to the car now that I know the car is still attached to someone else's account...
Mine are the same - sitting in accumulated drainage water and starting to rust a bit. (Not badly yet fortunately)
So far they've just asked for my contact details, license plate and VIN number but haven't asked to see the V5C...
