reversing sensors?
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Hi still new to the cerbera and may not be a done TVR thing but do find its hard to judge back of the car to wall or other cars especially with those two big pipes sticking out would just hate to hit anything. Think I am a pretty good judge and have always double parked well but being so low and limited vis out the back wondered if sensors would be a good thing and has anybody fitted them? I have found some on E-Bay made by easy-driving in Berkshire look good and have four small 18mm sensors that I think may be fitted just under the last bumper bulge so pretty discreet plus they have red so a good match for me? Any thoughts and dont all shout at me I AM NEW!!!!
greenm said:
Thought you might all say that and no wont sell the car and no wont fit them just practise more!! Maybe when the V8 noise has an echo I am close enough?? Ta
Seriously that works - needs something fairly solid behind. You need the window open but that's mandatory in a cerb so it should already be open when parking.Its amazing how quickly you get used to it. Good luck and practice with something cheap behind, don't want to be fixing 2 expensive things.
Fit one of these - it goes inside the boot under the carpet and works perfectly through the fibreglass. No modification needed and totaly invisible.
http://www.parkingsensors.co.uk/PD1_parking_dynami...
http://www.parkingsensors.co.uk/PD1_parking_dynami...
Tanguero said:
Fit one of these - it goes inside the boot under the carpet and works perfectly through the fibreglass. No modification needed and totaly invisible.
http://www.parkingsensors.co.uk/PD1_parking_dynami...
This piece of kit looks ideal for the Cerbera. I always felt parking sensors were a waste of money but my wife's car has them and they remove all the guess work when parking.http://www.parkingsensors.co.uk/PD1_parking_dynami...
My Discovery has a tow bar which has alerted me in the past but my new one has sensors front and rear so saving other vehicles the "nudge".
If this invisible sensor works as well as Tanguero says then it is a useful addition. Better than the embarrassing (and expensive) crunching sound.
Edited by Storer on Wednesday 3rd September 08:23
Mine works very well indeed and on all objects - my only criticisim would be that it can be over sensitive and trigger if you approach sloping ground and occasionaly in very heavy rain.
Fitting it was relatively straight forward, though I wanted ot place it inside the most projecting bulge of the rear of the bodywork and there is a reinforcement panel in the fibreglass that makes it difficult. I ended up using a length of foam pipe insulation to push it into place behind the reinforcement. Fiddly but do-able. Just use a piggyback spade connector to hook into the reversing light for power and run the buzzer through behind the helmet holder and cable tie it in a convienent place. No modification to the car whatsoever and it may just save your cars arse....
Fitting it was relatively straight forward, though I wanted ot place it inside the most projecting bulge of the rear of the bodywork and there is a reinforcement panel in the fibreglass that makes it difficult. I ended up using a length of foam pipe insulation to push it into place behind the reinforcement. Fiddly but do-able. Just use a piggyback spade connector to hook into the reversing light for power and run the buzzer through behind the helmet holder and cable tie it in a convienent place. No modification to the car whatsoever and it may just save your cars arse....
Storer said:
How do they work on concrete and wood?
They detect any object, including non-metalic ones by measuring the change in an electromagnetic field transmitted by the aerial strip rather like the interference you get sometimes when moving close to a radio aerial.Gazzab said:
You can get the electromagentic ones for a lot less than £89. Seen them for £18 (found a mention on a merc related web forum).
When I bought mine I searched fairly extensively for a better price - and that was the best I could find at the time. I have (a year later) seen them for closer to £50 but would be most interested to see where they are available that much cheaper.Cut n paste from merc site:-
Hi there is a company in westhoughton called car essentials, they sell a parking system which doesnt need sensors or many wires, I have used it countless times when managing at Audi Ford and Vauxhall, they cost a very very small price of £19.00, and only have two wires, but work amazingly. there is no drilling, all you do is remove your back bumper, and clean the back of it with alcohol or panel wipe, then in the kit is a three metre strip of sensor which is like metal tape, you cut it to length and peel its backing off and stick it down, conect the plug to one end, and the other end with the beeper on it conects to you reversing light, job done, and it covers the side parts of the bumper too. I have a set knocking around the house somewhere if you want I'll send you the pictures.
Hi there is a company in westhoughton called car essentials, they sell a parking system which doesnt need sensors or many wires, I have used it countless times when managing at Audi Ford and Vauxhall, they cost a very very small price of £19.00, and only have two wires, but work amazingly. there is no drilling, all you do is remove your back bumper, and clean the back of it with alcohol or panel wipe, then in the kit is a three metre strip of sensor which is like metal tape, you cut it to length and peel its backing off and stick it down, conect the plug to one end, and the other end with the beeper on it conects to you reversing light, job done, and it covers the side parts of the bumper too. I have a set knocking around the house somewhere if you want I'll send you the pictures.
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