Car Parking Sensors

Anish30_2

Hi everyone....need some advise...i am looking to install new parking sensors..both front and back...for a vauxhall corsa 1.4 auto and need it to be installed as well...can someone let me know the best and cheapest way of doing this please...the cheapest quote I have at the moment is £279, for 4 front and 4 back, colour coded, Valeo.

Suggestions & advise pls..

thanks.

vikingaero

I'd better ward off the MSE Parking Polis for you.

If you have basic DIY skills you should be able to install them yourself. If not then £279 isn't a bad price for a front and rear set, coloured coded and fitted.

Is the Valeo set audio beep only or is there a graphic display? I find the graphic display to be better than having to work out the number of beeps.

daveyjp

Fronts need to be programmed so they turn off once you get above 5mph and won't turn back on again until either you activate them, or you select reverse first. Very annoying to have them on all the time.

vikingaero

My front sensors need manual activation by pressing a button on the display.

Hammyman

Someone who needs front parking sensors for a car like a Corsa should be taken off the road. In fact its hard to justify the rears as well on a car like that.

rev_henry

You can get a kit very cheaply from Maplin or ebay. About £30 or so. Don't know how easy it is to fit yourself though, and thats only the rears.

Flyboy152

Front and rear sensors on a Corsa? Really? :eek:

Try Halfords, they fit and supply.

sillygoose

I fitted some rear ones on one of our cars (4 sensor), got from ebay for about £25. Colour wasn't a problem as car is metallic silver so I ordered ones already in that colour, match was by luck very good, looks as good as a factory fit.

Its not that hard but it does take ages if your not familiar with how the specific car is put together as you may have to remove layers of fittings until you get to the fixings to get the bumper off. You then need to mark the holes accurately or it will look terrible. Cables need routing and the control box mounting somewhere under trim and connected into the reversing light cable. Mine has works perfectly and reliably, nothing wrong with the kit. I am an engineer with electrical, mechanical and vehicle skills and its not a job I enjoyed!... get someone used to it to do it would be my advice.

As to why someone needs them on a Corsa wasn't the question as far as I read! person may be disabled and/or very short, either way I would rather they fitted sensors than played 'bumper' parking with my car behind!!!

pwllbwdr

Yes, it is usually very straightforward to fit them youself IF you know how to take the bumper off and refit it. Both of the cars I have fitted sets to have had the locations for four sensors pre-marked in the rear of the bumper - it is then a simple matter to drill the pilot hole through from the rear and then drill back from the outside for the full hole. I've never bothered with the kits which have a visual display - I find the sounds very easy to reverse to and that avoids having to route cables to the front of the car.

Inactive

Spend your money on further driver training.;)

pwllbwdr

Inactive wrote: »

Spend your money on further driver training.;)

... is an unfair thing to say. Many modern cars have horrendous visbility out of the back.