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Car Parking Sensors
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The OP fancies fitting a useful gadget on his car, so I'm not going to tell him I shouldn't.
£279 is a good price for four sensors, properly fitted.
Many drivers find the rears are far more useful than the fronts.
Maybe get a price on just the rears.0 -
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.
I love these forums, full of self righteous *ricks, the op asked about price, not a judgement from somebody who knows nothing about them.I am a mortgage adviser.You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a Mortgage Adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice.0 -
... is an unfair thing to say. Many modern cars have horrendous visbility out of the back.
No they don't, not any worse than cars built twenty or thirty years ago.
Nonetheless, we are talking about a Corsa here, the rear bumper is about four inches away from the rear windscreen, which is about six feet away from the back of the driver's seat. The front bumper is about three feet away from the edge of the dashboard, how much more visibility does one need.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
No they don't, not any worse than cars built twenty or thirty years ago.
Nonetheless, we are talking about a Corsa here, the rear bumper is about four inches away from the rear windscreen, which is about six feet away from the back of the driver's seat. The front bumper is about three feet away from the edge of the dashboard, how much more visibility does one need.
I think you're wrong there. Mrs V's old Corsa B had excellent visibility. Her Corsa C was harder to see out of and the window line much higher. Her new Corsa D is a lot harder to see out of compared to the Corsa B and as such she has reversing sensors. (If they had a factory option for "Man with a red flag" I would have ordered it, but that's another story."
Older people have driven cars where they could see the end of the bonnets and with the aerodynamic and cab forward designs it's much harder to see out of current cars.The man without a signature.0 -
I love these forums, full of self righteous *ricks, the op asked about price, not a judgement from somebody who knows nothing about them.
Hammyman is/was a professional HGV driver who "has never had an accident" except for the one that he doesn't mention.The man without a signature.0 -
vikingaero wrote: »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.
I strongly doubt someone who genuinely needs parking sensors in a Corsa would have any DIY skills at all....
My car is 4.7 metres long and has almost no rear window vision at all, I reverse and/or parallel park everywhere using the mirrors and i've never hit another object or vehicle.
The trick is to know the length of your rear overhang, then pick a mark on the ground and reverse until your rear wheels touch it. If you need to get out and check the distance, take a rough measure, then get into the car, leave the door open, pick a mark on the floor and then reverse that distance from the mark. Simples!
I have considered a reversing camera, but that's mainly because I like boxing in idiots who take up 2 parallel parking spaces (leaving half an empty space) and it would save me having to get out of the car to gauge the last few millimetres
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How on earth do people manage driving vans with blanked out rear windows?
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How on earth do people manage driving vans with blanked out rear windows?
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