Brummie Allan

Mine is very similar but my front sensor would not be visible from this angle as it is deep within the front grille. The side one is the same. If you were moving directly towards your car indicator light from this angle the sensor would go from 4 orange to 3 orange to nothing. It would not go 4,3,2 orange, 1 red.

Not sure if the front dead spot would be quite as bad as that. Mine was to the right of your right hand red line and due to the right hand front sensor being set too far back and on my model the front side sensor is right round under the headlight washer. On the new cars I looked at in the showroom the front sensors are on longer stalks that put them flush with the front of the car which would minimise any dead spot.

My garage did agree there is a dead spot and I use that term loosely as it's quite a large area. It is a design fault which Lexus PR will not accept. I came on here to see if anyone else had had a problem. This is my 3rd new Lexus and I've told PR it will be my last but guess the sale of one car won't affect them.

I understand your humour and I'm annoyed at myself as I didn't realise the post I was trying to miss was twice as wide at the bottom than the top where I could see it. But I would expect the car to see a post that is 200mm, 100m, 10mm from the car.

I damaged the front of my 300h a few weeks back while turning around in a car park. I knew the was a post there and was going very slow, the car displayed 4 orange bars on the near side, I kept going and the warning turned off indicating to me that I had passed the post. I then hit it, all be it slowly but it has done some damage. I have had the car checked and the sensors are working correctly so I asked the service guy to come out and check and there is a large dead spot between the two sensors I believe this is because the sensor in the grille is set far too far back. Lexus are putting all the blame on me. Anyone else noticed this on their car?