Parking Sensors

[patbhoy]

Having bumped my spare wheel cover a few times i have been thinking of fitting reverse parking sensors.
Has anyone fitted these to their truck.

 

[Paul]

We have something like this on our's

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WIRELESS-LED-...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4ceea40817

Took all of about 20min's to fit. :thumb2

 

[Deleted account DD]

Fitted them to the last 6 cars we've had, first lot were on my mondeo when I kept seeming to be hitting things on the drive regularly :augie They are the mutts bits, very very useful.

Theyre very good value via ebay :thumb2

Ive also installed a small reversing camera on the two cars we have at the mo. More for fun than anything else to start with but invaluable once you get used to them. We can cheerfully manouvre into and out of spaces whilst laughing at the "he's not even looking backwards" comments

Again well cheap, we bought 2 complete sets. decent camera and a small lcd off a bloke on ebay , straight £100 for the 2 delivered.

Jeeps on the drive if you want a couple of pics.

 

[Deleted account DD]

last 3 sets have been from this guy and something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CAR-REVERSING...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item2c49051520

Hes not the cheapest at the mo but quality is good :thumb2

Theyre dead easy to fit once youve decided where youre going to drill.

I usually cover the area of the bumper Im looking at in masking tape, space behind the skin, find the centre line then measure outwards :thumb2

I didnt bother colour coding the ones on the T2 but I have done others and its easy peasy, all have worked fine.

 

[patbhoy]

last 3 sets have been from this guy and something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CAR-REVERSING...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item2c49051520

Hes not the cheapest at the mo but quality is good :thumb2

Theyre dead easy to fit once youve decided where youre going to drill.

I usually cover the area of the bumper Im looking at in masking tape, space behind the skin, find the centre line then measure outwards :thumb2

I didnt bother colour coding the ones on the T2 but I have done others and its easy peasy, all have worked fine.

Looks very similar to the kit i've been thinking of buying.
I can get the kit in the photo new in the box for £12 delivered, is it easily fitted.

 

[Deleted account DD]

That looks like one and the same make, they all have the hole saws in the orange box

Its all personal choice of course but I had one with the led display and it always looked like a daft add on on the dash board and I never looked at it. You sort of tune in with out realising to the beeps to the point where if you set off to reverse in a car without them and you dont get the serviceable/check beep when you hit reverse you get a worried sort of feeling :lol:lol

I managed to find a monitor to fit the jeep console for the reverse camera but I could find and led reverse display that did.

Id have a think before you splash the cash :thumbs


Sorry missed your question, yes electrically its a cinch. The connectors are either labelled or idjit proof one way only plug in. All you need to find is which wire heading to the rear cluster is reverse, an earth point and then connect to them.

When the reverse light comes on the power draw from these kits is minimal so it uses the current to the reverse bulb.

What can take the time on the job for people like you and I who dont do it day in day out is deciding where to drill and pulling off panels as needs be to route the wires (which are usually very long) The jeep was easy to do but the missus SEAT was a nightmare took me ages to work out which trim panels were coming off and how :augie

 

[extreme-4x4]

hmmm for that price id be interested. you got a link for where you are thinking of buying yours

 

[Deleted account DD]

hmmm for that price id be interested. you got a link for where you are thinking of buying yours

If you mean a camera , it was this guy http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Reversing-SYS...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item483d256915 theyve come down in price quite a bit because everyones wanting the bigger monitors but this size is fine and fits both our cars bang on.

They were £65 when I bought them, he did me 2 for £100 outside of ebay (to save on fees I presume) spoke to him a couple of times, nice guy. You may be able to get them cheaper if you buy a monitor and camera separately

I put the camera into a maplins project box (£2.50 if i remember) and mounted it temporarily above the removable tow bar socket on mine so it looks out beyond the car bumper level and below but when the swan neck is on its like a rifle sight bang in the middle to see how I got on. Spot on for hitching up its also got ir so you can see at night but it switches to b&w then

I was going to drill the camera into the bumper but I haven been bothered :lol

 

[patbhoy]

Thats a neat looking job Daved.

I talked the guy down to £10 delivered for the reverse sensor kit, i'll give that a go and see how i get on.

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[extreme-4x4]

camera's would be good. i wonder if you could run them into a lap top to record too.... be good for cheaper car insurance

i guess there are endless applications. adz could have one on a periscope type of set up to see his way out of deep ponds, or makeitfit could have them to see when upside own .

i suppose you could even rig em up to web cam or home cctv with the right program on your pc.


and ir that would be useful in the dark without lights on :sly:sly:sly.

im liking this a lot

 

[Deleted account DD]

I talked the guy down to £10 delivered for the reverse sensor kit, i'll give that a go and see how i get on.

Bloody good deal :thumb2

 

[Deleted account DD]

camera's would be good. i wonder if you could run them into a lap top to record too.... be good for cheaper car insurance

i guess there are endless applications. adz could have one on a periscope type of set up to see his way out of deep ponds, or makeitfit could have them to see when upside own .

i suppose you could even rig em up to web cam or home cctv with the right program on your pc.


and ir that would be useful in the dark without lights on :sly:sly:sly.

im liking this a lot

It is pretty endless. The monitor also has two inputs so what you sould do in theory is have one forward facing with a simple switch for on/off then put the reverse onto the prioritised connection so when you select reverse it always comes on automatically :thumb2

I hadnt thougtht about the lap top angle but yes it must be a runner because one of the big (expensive) suppliers who's web site I looked on did have usb adaptors for the vid connectors :naughty