176 Driving and Driving Safety
For information on warning messages on the
multi-purpose display:
f Please see the chapter “OVERVIEW OF
WARNING MESSAGES” on page 139.
Information
– The Lane Change Assist function can be
restricted in tight corners, on undulating roads
and in adverse weather conditions.
– The radar sensors can sometimes detect
other objects (e.g. high or raised crash
barriers), not just vehicles.
– Lane Change Assist does not measure the lane
width, but the system assumes that the lane
has a fixed width. The sensors cover this lane
width at the left and right. When driving on
narrow roads or when driving off-center in
a lane, it is possible that Lane Change Assist
will detect vehicles that are not in the directly
adjacent lane and signal these as critical.
f If the positions of the radar sensors were
changed following a rear-impact collision,
for example, always have the Lane Change
Assist system checked out at a specialist
workshop for safety reasons.
Car Audio Operation/Tips
For radio operation see your radio manual
which is included with your on-board
literature.
FM reception
A vehicle is not an ideal place to listen to a radio.
Because the vehicle moves, reception conditions
are constantly changing.
Buildings, terrain, signal distance and noise from
other vehicles are all working against good
reception.
Some conditions affecting FM may appear to be
problems when they are not.
The following characteristics are completely
normal for a given reception area, and they do not
indicate any problem with the radio itself.
Information
Electronic accessories should only be installed by
your authorized Porsche dealer.
Equipment which has not been tested and
approved by Porsche may impair radio reception.
Fading and drifting
FM range is limited to about 25 miles (40 km),
except for some high power stations.
If a vehicle is moving away from the desired
station's transmitter, the signal will tend to fade
and/or drift. This condition is more prevalent with
FM than AM, and is often accompanied by
distortion.
Fading and drifting can be minimized to a certain
degree by careful attention to fine tuning or
selection of a stronger signal.
Static and fluttering
When the line-of-sight link between a transmitter
and vehicle is blocked by large buildings or
mountains, the radio sound may be accompanied
with static or fluttering because of the
characteristic of FM.
In a similar effect, a fluttering noise is sometimes
heard when driving along a tree-lined road.
This static and fluttering can be reduced by
adjusting the tone control for greater bass
response until the disturbance has passed.
Multipath
Because of the reflecting characteristics of FM,
direct and reflected signals may reach the antenna
at the same time (multipath) and cancel each other
out.
As a vehicle moves through these electronic dead
spots, the listener may hear a momentary flutter
or loss of reception.
Station swapping
When two FM stations are close to each other, and
an electronic dead spot, such as static or
multipath area, interrupts the original signal,
some-times the stronger second signal will be
selected automatically until the original one
returns.
This swapping can also occur as you drive away
from the selected station and approach another
station of a stronger signal.
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