Reversing sensors

[Grubber]

Hi, I spotted in the thread about voltage gauge this came up and thought I'd share my experience...

I bought a kit off eBay - about £8 or £12 something like that! And have been really impressed with them, they are fitted to my x-trail as previous car to this had factory fit and you get so reliant on them when you've had them!

Ive experienced that the cheap kits are spot on! I went for the 4 sensor kit, proper drilled into bumper not the nasty stick on things and kit I bought had choice of 30 colours, one of which was close enough to the nissan silver so looks ok.  And 12 months on still work flawless

I'm also tempted to put a similar kit on my 2, hardest part with the fit on the x trail was that the wire to get the power off the reverse lamp wasn't long enough to go all the way to bulb so had to cut into wiring loom in boot area (which also saved threading through a  lengthy bit of pillar) but the cable colours on bulb changed at a connector socket onto loom so be aware this may be same on the 2, but with the engine / light layout may be different complications.  My x trail has a tow bar so getting sensor wires from bumper to loom was easy enough by following these.

I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has done some on the 2 as whilst it's not huge and with roof down it's no problem, but quick shuffles of cars on cold mornings I've found visibility really poor!

Oh the other thing to say with drilling the bumper is measure measure measure! I just took a central point (or so I thought!) and went gung-ho and yep the rhs is 3mm out as the central reflector screw holes aren't central! Only I notice it as it's only 3mm but I'd treble check before doing same again..

Any info from members fitting these to an mr2 would be useful before I have a go, but failing that I'll update my experiences in a month or so if I get round to doing it.

[Jandaw]

Don't know how to do a "clicky" but check the original of this post via the search function.
I still haven't fitted mine, just waiting for a warm, dry day. Could be waiting a while!

Bob's OP.

Here is a shot of the reversing sensors that I fitted yesterday.
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They were perfectly straightforward to fit. The kit came complete with all components and a hole cutter.

Cutting the holes was the only sphincter clenching moment, you only get one shot so make sure all your measurements are correct.
I put masking tape along the bumper and did all my measurements and markings on that. I then drilled very small pilot holes, confirmed that all was OK then cut the holes.

This is the E bay link where I bought them.

 m http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Reversing-Par m  ... 4ce9ce95d6

Bob McC.

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