I have been able to use the park assist, but only after several trial and error attempts. There are a plethora of caveats to be met before the car can select one of many ways to park. I suggest reading pages 181-185 of the Owner's Manual. YMMV.

Also, there are several YouTube videos on this as well as Park Assist Plus with Memory.

 

I have used it a couple of times, mostly just to try it out. Both were backing in to perpendicular spaces. Once was a little too close to one car on the passenger side, so I had to adjust myself. The other time it worked quite well.

 

Ive used a few times a month when parking on streets w/ parallel parking...it is kinda slow (IMO) that you don't want to do it on a busy street. I think you do need to be below around 10mph, then it pretty quickly recognizes the spot. I hit the blue 'spot' on the infotainment screen and then press start and it does the rest. I've never been able to get it to work on perpendicular spot.... if you hit the blue box it will rotate 90 degrees, but then it still doesn't seem to actually want to park. When I bought the car, the dealer said that is one feature they don't demonstrate for you on the dealer lot... guessing that they've had some issues ;-)

 

I hit the blue 'spot' on the infotainment screen and then press start and it does the rest. I've never been able to get it to work on perpendicular spot.... if you hit the blue box it will rotate 90 degrees, but then it still doesn't seem to actually want to park.

Hitting the blue spot changes between parallel / front-in / back-in mode. I have only hit that to change between modes. Otherwise, once the spot you want is highlighted just stop with the brake, hit "Start" on the screen, then let go of steering wheel and release brake. The car takes it from there.

In reading the manual, I didn't realize that Park Assist also works for exiting a parking place. I might have to try that one for backing out of a tight space sometime, just to see how it does.

 

Used it a couple of times just to try it out. It is too slow for my taste. I find it useless and unnecessary. I would rather have folding mirrors than park assist.

 

I'll drive through a parking lot very slowly with park assist on and drive by dozens of spaces. Open on all sides, between two cars, whatever and it won't see any of them.

Hello. The Park Assist cannot find a parking spot in an open lot. It does not look for marking but for structures that confine to a parking space. Basically the idea is that one should be able to park in open lot without the assist. There needs to be space for the car plus 16.x inches or so on both sides to fit the car.

For us it is a bit spotty when there is only one car but never had problems when there are 2 cars building the spot.

Oh and you cannot use it to get into your garage backing in. Also the parking slot memory would probably not work here. In most cases I tried it will cancel the process because garages are usually to narrow and do not allow for the clearance needed on both sides.

 

Hello. The Park Assist cannot find a parking spot in an open lot. It does not look for marking but for structures that confine to a parking space. Basically the idea is that one should be able to park in open lot without the assist. There needs to be space for the car plus 16.x inches or so on both sides to fit the car.

For us it is a bit spotty when there is only one car but never had problems when there are 2 cars building the spot.

Oh and you cannot use it to get into your garage backing in. Also the parking slot memory would probably not work here. In most cases I tried it will cancel the process because garages are usually to narrow and do not allow for the clearance needed on both sides.

Actually, that's not completely accurate. I was able to use park assist to back into my driveway. There were no other cars or markings on which the cameras could use a references. It parked the car to the right side of the driveway and just beyond the sidewalk. That's not where I wanted to park, but it did work. YMMV.

 

It is pretty bad at finding parking spaces. Some times it works, some times it does not.

As it has no side cameras, it can not see parking lines on side, that is why no chance it can park itself in completely empty spaces (cars without 360 cameras), it needs car as reference, now if you are too close or too far from parked car or going too quickly or slowly or even if two parked cars are not properly parked will affect if it can find a parking spot or not. Once it finds enough empty space between two cars it can park itself with the help of sensors, it will try to park in as center as possible. So if your car can find parking spot or not depends highly on other cars. To me its just a gimmick.

I use memory parking a lot as at my work place, there is a very tight parking space where we have L2 charger. I use it daily and it works flawlessly. I wish it could do it when you are not even in the car. i.e. same like Tesla/Ioniq5 where you can move car from app or key fob. My colleague uses Tesla app to park his Model3 in that spot.

 

It is pretty bad at finding parking spaces. Some times it works, some times it does not.

As it has no side cameras, it can not see parking lines on side, that is why no chance it can park itself in completely empty spaces (cars without 360 cameras), it needs car as reference, now if you are too close or too far from parked car or going too quickly or slowly or even if two parked cars are not properly parked will affect if it can find a parking spot or not. Once it finds enough empty space between two cars it can park itself with the help of sensors, it will try to park in as center as possible. So if your car can find parking spot or not depends highly on other cars. To me its just a gimmick.

I use memory parking a lot as at my work place, there is a very tight parking space where we have L2 charger. I use it daily and it works flawlessly. I wish it could do it when you are not even in the car. i.e. same like Tesla/Ioniq5 where you can move car from app or key fob. My colleague uses Tesla app to park his Model3 in that spot.

Okay going too slow and being too close or too far from the cars are things I didn't think about. I'll play around a bit with that and see what I can figure out. That is if I can get over my embarrassment of just doing slow circles for half an hour...

 

You are having planters or fences which build an entrance path at the sidewalk? Or cars parked at the street building a parking spot ? Then it would be the same as cars. I was told by VW it needs some sort of barrier on at least one side. Preferably on both. Plus enough space between the barriers.

 

No planters or fences. Just grass.

 

I have never had any luck with park assist. The one time it found a spot I got too nervous when it got very close to another parked car and I canceled it.
I do use the memory parking feature regularly whenever I want to charge.
I need to back my car into the driveway so the charger cord will reach when I need to charge, so I memorized backing in for each direction I can approach my driveway, named them "Home South" and "Home North", and just let the car park itself on days when I'm going to charge.

 

Park Assist works very, very poorly. I would say 10% of the time (not counting the 'memory' function or parallel parking, since I haven't tried that yet). 'Normal' (perpendicular?) parking (ie- cruising a parking lot for a spot) rarely works. I just tried it twice on my (almost packed) apartment parking lot, and it didn't pick-up a single spot.

 

It will find parking spaces between two cars as ID4 relies on sensors to find parked cars and if there is enough gap, it identifies it as potential parking space.

Try memory parking, it works flawlessly for me, only issue is it's too slow. I have stopped using it.