Rearview System Braking Problems of Subaru Forester

The head unit suddenly stopped working. It unfortunately isn’t covered under warranty. The screen consistently turns on and off.

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The temperature control valve (tcv) has gone bad and so the check engine light is on and reverse automatic braking and the eyesight system is disabled. The problem with the temperature control valve is unrelated to the safety systems, however, when this valve goes bad, these safety systems are disabled automatically.

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The rcta system operates very poorly. When backing up and we see a car in the rear camera screen approaching from the back side of our car, we cannot hear or see any allert. My wife and I are both seniors in our seventies and I suffer from normal age-related hearing loss. . . . My wife not so much. Her hearing is quite normal. But we cannot hear the alert alarm. Also, the visual alert is located in a place where you do not look when you are backing up. It wasn't until I owned the car for four months that I discovered that there is a visual rcta alert in the side view mirrors (of all places). . . . An area one does not look at while backing up. With a car with a rear camera, your eyes are usually glued to the camera display screen when backing up; after all, it is a safety device. We have nearly had a collision a half dozen times already. I contacted Subaru about this issue, and they told me that there is nothing that they can do and that in their words "as you can imagine, finding the right balance for all of our owners is a difficult job. " this sound alert should be adjustable. . . It is not. And the visual alert should be in a place where your eyes are looking when backing up. Right now, the Subaru rcta is worthless to us.

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As far as I know, my vehicle is performing as designed, but I am quite serious in thinking this is a safety issue - the radio cannot be muted, or turned off, or the volume decreased, when the transmission in in reverse, because of interference of its head unit with the backup camera. This is a hugely annoying distraction when trying to parallel park safely and quickly in dense urban settings. I want my backup lights on immediately, once I locate the parking spot I want, but time after time, I forget to turn off the radio before I start trying to park. I am the only owner of the car from new, and it now has about 69,000 miles on it.

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