Re: Auto-Park

Posted by HH56 On 2016/6/23 20:20:53

That separate park button is more intuitive. On the Chrysler I saw demonstrated, IIRC it seemed like you have to push the knob forward and hold until the P lights up and then when the knob is released it springs back to center.

The Packard system was pretty good for the day although I guess enough people didn't like it that Packard came up with an approved procedure to remove the auto park function. Several on the forum have removed theirs too. When my auto park relay failed I installed a modern replacement relay and small switch in the original can. To take advantage of both lines of thought I modified the circuit slightly so auto park works as normal. Flip the hidden switch on the bottom of the relay and it reverts to a car without the function. You have to manually engage park by pushing the button.