Reversing sensor fitted!!!

Hmm - most imported goods like this have dropped dramatically in the last few years due to the strong pound. And perhaps greater production.

Odd, I find reversing in much easier than going in nose first. It is much easier to line the car up properly going backwards and of course easier than reversing out blind into a (sometimes) stream of passing vehicles.

I also find it easier to reverse into spaces, especially in car parks where it can be a tight squeeze at full lock with a relatively large car. Using the mirrors one can get closer than an inch to pillars or other cars, and see you're going to miss them. Mike.

I drive a Focus saloon, and although I've confidently reversed a variety of cars for the 22 years I've been driving, I never feel confident about this car. The boot is quite high and I'm never 100% certain how much space I have behind me.

I've yet to prang it though, maybe it's down to being over cautious!

Morse

Given the number of dents and scratches my E39 has picked up from others in carparks I no longer park anywhere near other cars. I had one entire side re-done after being scraped when parked by a hit and run driver and had to pay quite a bit of the cost myself due to previous damage. A few months later it collected another metal denting scrape from a trolley on the same side.

That was a colleague's approach. "Hey since this thing works on dopplar, if I park at my usual speed, it'll work just gre- crunch."

Wuckfit broke the parking sensor and never bothered replacing it. :)

I think the front one works by automatically switching the main beam headlights and the right indicator on if it discovers another car in front in the BMW lane on the motorway.

When reverse is selected both front and rear sensors are activated but there's also a button on the dash to switch it on or off. The pitch is different for front and rear but I wouldn't say that was essential :-)

No we just drive everywhere with the front fog lights on. I don't understand why people can't understand that we and our cars are in fact superior. ;-)

What use is a front parking sensor when in reverse? Or does it detect things at either side of the front end too?

And presumably the manual describes how to test the system with other cars on the motorway...