Reversing sensor fitted!!!

When I bought my wife a Lexus we found that it was extremely difficult to judge where the rear end was, so I bought a T23P reverse sensor, this is the type that has a silver strip to fit inside the plastic bumper. Three years later I fitted it, it was simple and quick to fit and works really well, it detects anything you are approaching, animal vegetable and mineral, it seems extremely reliable and far better than the ultrasonic types I have fitted for customers in the past. It goes to solid beep at about 250mm, so is quite usable with little danger to the bumpers. It can also be adjusted for sensitivity.

Mrcheerful

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Mrcheerful
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Hadn't she got used to the length by that time? Actually, fitting something three years after buying it is one of my best tricks too.

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Brian

If someone really cannot reverse park a car without having Fylingdales hanging off their rear bumper, then they should have their driving licence taken away as clearly they are not fit to drive on the roads.

The only class of vehicle than can justify having Fylingdales on their rear bumpers is 13m lorries and full sized coaches/buses.

In fact some lorries now have a camera on the back and a TV set in the cab......

Regards

Mallory.

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Mallory

No thanks, you'll find that any decent truck driver can perfectly well judge the distance to the rear within a few inches without use of gadgets.

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SimonJ

Assuming that's your definition of decent. There's plenty who can't.

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Duncan Wood

She is a very good driver, with our old Granada estate she could park it in the tiniest gap without touching anything. The length of the car is not the problem, visibility is !! The bizarre thing about this car is that it is really not possible to accurately judge where the back is !! The boot is high and the rear end curves in, you can't see any corners!! I jumped in it fully expecting that 'I COULD DO IT' no problem, but no, it is a real pain to park, full stop. I have an HGV1 licence and pride myself on driving anything, yet the rear end of this thing is a problem, it is the only vehicle I have come across that is as bad. At one stage or another we have both lightly backed it in to something.

Anyway the real point of the post is that this type of reverse sensor works pretty well !!!

Mrcheerful

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Mrcheerful

So you could do it first time in any vehicle then? And we are supposed to believe this I suppose.

The fact that some lorries have a camera in the back is actually nothing to do with judging distance, but it has everything to do with seeing that a child or other hidden item is not about to be crushed. I suppose the concept of blind spots has never occurred to you.

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Brian

My 7-series BMW has sensors rear *and* the front and they're great.

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adder1969

So you've driven every car on the road to be able to make this statement with such authority?

Hint. With some cars it's easy to know where the extremities are. Others are easy to the front, more difficult to the back. Some the other way round. Some both. Some are easy to judge the width of - others not so.

But then your car obviously doesn't have reversing sensors so you simply don't know how useful they can be.

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Dave Plowman (News)

I wondered about one for the front (and I have already got it, just not actually fitted !) Is the front one 'live' all the time? or switchable?

Reply to
Mrcheerful

BMW? Maybe it activates if you drop back more than three feet from the car in front.

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PM

What I don't understand is, if it fits *inside* the bumper and sees

*through* this, why doesn't it see through the thing you want to detect and avoid?

John

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John

it is because it senses the APPROACHING field of the item, so if there is no movement it stays silent, the bumper is stationary in relation to the tape, so is not detected.

Reply to
Mrcheerful

Ah, right. Thanks.

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John

Have you got a link to this item? Can't find it with Google.

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PM

my mistake it was a Taurus T123p, I got mine from here:

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I have not checked around recently on the price, but they are still the same price from here as when I bought mine three years ago.

Mrcheerful

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Mrcheerful

Many thanks

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PM

So the faster you park the more reliable it is?

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PCPaul

This reminds me of when I took my wife to a retail park a few years ago and I stayed in my car and read the paper whilst she did her shopping. A chap and his wife in a brand new BMW decided to reverse into the space in front of me. There was loads of empty space around so I assumed that he wanted to try out the parking sensors. After maneouvering back and forth for a few minutes, his wife got out to guide him. Next thing he wacks into the bloody big bumper on the front of my Volvo 240 estate! I think his wife was going to apologise, but when she saw me laughing fit to bust she got back into the car and they drove off.

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Ken

I've often wondered why people reverse into spaces in supermarkets and the like. You can't get at the boot or tailgate so easily to put the shopping in and it's clearly harder to reverse in than drive in and reverse out. I'll admit I'm crap at reversing though and can't tell within about a yard whether the arse end of my Focus is about to hit something or not once it's disappeared below the level of the rear screen.

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Dave Baker

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