Peugeot 307 Rear Parking Sensors - Advice Appreciated

[Skirmisheer]

I recently bought a 2007 1.6 Petrol 307 SW SE and have been sorting various issues that the car came with.

The latest project is trying to make the rear parking sensors work. When I put the car in reverse I get a message on the screen to say that there is a fault with the parking system and a short beep. The reversing light is on. I've just removed all sensors and cleaned them and WD40'd the connections to try and remove any moisture but the problem is still there.

I'd therefore appreciate any advice/information that may fix the problem as it is nice to have rear parking sensors working.

Thanks
David

[Skirmisheer]

What great advice...

Funnily enough I do use the mirrors but sometimes there may be something small just out of sight and that's when parking sensors are very useful.

Perhaps someone else can offer some technical advice that is rather more useful.

[Skirmisheer]

Thanks for the replies.

I've noticed that the warnning message only appears on the display when the engine is actually running. Moving the ignition to position 2 doesn't make the message appear. Are the sensors likely to work without the engine running? Obviously I need a very trustworthy person in control of the gears and clutch if I'm to listen to the rear sensors while the engine is running!

While I can imagine the actual sensors failing due to various reasons I would have thought it highly unlikely that the control unit would be faulty?

[Skirmisheer]

The fix was easy in the end. I found a very useful website that gave instructions for testing the sensors using a multimeter and measuring the resistance. The faulty sensor was found and another purchased off ebay. One connected up the whole system was and still is working fine. The sensor fault had nothing to do with Peugeot as most cars use exactly the same type.
The rest of the electrics have been fine on the car too so I've got no complaints about the 307.

[Skirmisheer]

Here you are.

http://www.jaguarforum.co.uk/f26/how-do-you-identi...

[Skirmisheer]

You may well be right however while I had mine everything worked fine. I now have a 2.3 Mondeo estate but the only reason I changed was because I needed an automatic because of my dodgy knee. I'd have quite happily had another 307 SW but the performance with auto boxes is pretty poor.