Blind Spot Monitoring System

I must admit ive had a couple of passangers say some weird stuff as ive overtaken a car and the wing mirror shows the same sort of thing lol.

You will know if it is fitted to your car as the mirrors have a small etched area on the outside of them - when you fire up the engine in P or in R you see a small orange dot on the mirror edge, when a car enters the blindspot them you will have a small icon of two cars passing each other appear. It's a good system but the small radars are easily confused and show an overtaking car on the nearside if pedestrians pass close or you are travelling down narrow country roads and it picks up bushes and hedges in the field.
This is the instructions from the manual and show what you should see in your mirrors if you have BLIS. http://www.disco3.co.uk/gallery/albums/u...6/BLIS.pdf

Appears none of the US vehicles have this option. Bad news for us "early adopters", good news for those that are still waiting for their vehicle.


Response from dealer:

The Prestige models are coming to the US with the surround camera system but no Blind Spot Monitoring. They must be having issues with the supplier. In our order forms it show us the BSM will be available to be ordered at a later date. So none of the Evoques are coming with that option

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@bell-auto-services thanks for rotating the picture.

(24-10-2011 08:06pm)wrtau23 Wrote:  Appears none of the US vehicles have this option. Bad news for us "early adopters", good news for those that are still waiting for their vehicle.


Response from dealer:

The Prestige models are coming to the US with the surround camera system but no Blind Spot Monitoring. They must be having issues with the supplier. In our order forms it show us the BSM will be available to be ordered at a later date. So none of the Evoques are coming with that option

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@bell-auto-services thanks for rotating the picture.

Did the Dealer mention at what date new orders might have the BSM?

(24-10-2011 08:06pm)wrtau23 Wrote:  Appears none of the US vehicles have this option. Bad news for us "early adopters", good news for those that are still waiting for their vehicle.


Response from dealer:

The Prestige models are coming to the US with the surround camera system but no Blind Spot Monitoring. They must be having issues with the supplier. In our order forms it show us the BSM will be available to be ordered at a later date. So none of the Evoques are coming with that option

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@bell-auto-services thanks for rotating the picture.

Definitely not the DOT thing as I have it on my S5. When I was ordering it it was not available but when the rig arrived it was in (part of the tech package). Hopefully when my Evoque will come in Feb/March (fingers crossed) it will have it as I tend to like this system.

(24-10-2011 08:06pm)wrtau23 Wrote:  Appears none of the US vehicles have this option. Bad news for us "early adopters", good news for those that are still waiting for their vehicle.


Response from dealer:

The Prestige models are coming to the US with the surround camera system but no Blind Spot Monitoring. They must be having issues with the supplier. In our order forms it show us the BSM will be available to be ordered at a later date. So none of the Evoques are coming with that option

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@bell-auto-services thanks for rotating the picture.

Are surround cams standard on the Prestige then in the US?

If so good score!

Yes mine has it but it doesn't have the blind spot monitor. But the dealer has a new coupe which I test drove that had it. I bought mine at a different dealer and didn't know it was the first one that came to that dealer. Hope it helps

(29-11-2011 10:32am)memota Wrote:  Are surround cams standard on the Prestige then in the US?

If so good score!

I just received the detailed spec sheet of my ordered vehicle - US Dynamic with Climate Pkg., Premium Pkg., Sat. and Adaptive Dynamic System. Interestingly Blind Spot Monitoring is listed under the Dynamic Premium Pkg/Prestige Premium Pkg BUT with a note:
only with Coupe Premium Pks). It appears that someone decided that the 4/5 door models would not benefit from it

Dah makes sense now that the coupes have it and not mine.

I wonder why your US 5 doors do not have it, when the UK 5 door car has it.

Pete