parking sensors

[Smokey]

I'm doing this but I bought the one with the distance monitor and have desoldered the buzzer so it only gives visual warning.

[Maxxed_Ross]

yeah you can paint them any colour you want.

I suppose you could put them in front on a switch. You power them through the reversing light so that they only come on when the reversing light is on... but I'm planning on fitting a kit to the back of my new Defender on a switch

The cheaper kits that I have fitted only have a buzzer (couldn't think where I could put the visual display so it would could be seen but be out of the way) that beeps depending on how close you are to the thing behind you. I think it works from about 2m so sometimes it starts off totally quiet

[Dav]

I assume the paint doesn't affect them working then? Defo one to look at, front and rear

[Enright]

No it doesn't. If they're working properly you can hear them clicking when you put your ear next to them. It's got to be a seriously thick coating of paint to stifle that!

[Dav]

That's cool, I didn't know if paint did anything. Looks like a mod for the new year then along with HIDs and heated seats if I can find the parts cheap

[Enright]

Yeah, the OEM sensors look a bit big and clunky (next to, for example a new Audi) but they work nicely as long as your stereo volume isn't cranked up too much!

Would receommend the heated seats - pretty easy as the wiring is all there already.
Just fit a switch and a relay for each, peel back the seat covers to put the elements in and you're good to go. The time-consuming/hardest bit is getting the seats out, apart, back together and back in again. Worth it though, and eliminates 2 glaring poverty spec switch blanks!

Wouldn't recommend HID's as you'll never pass an MoT test with them when the new regs are introduced. Unless you don't mind doing the hokey-cokey with them every year at MoT time...

[Dav]

Yea that wouldn't bother me too much, coz I personally think the original lights are a bit poo lol

[MG 53 ZED]

Heated seats highly recommend them, great in this cold wheather. As Enright said they are easy to do just time consuming taking the seats off then taking the covers off and adding the heated elements, end result well worth it.
I will be adding oem reverse parking sensor set up once i get my conversion under way.

Dav i have a spare oem parking aid speaker going if you want it?.

[Dav]

Thanks, but I'll probs get the eBay jobbies.

Out of interest, is it just me you and Yampie from Southampton?

[MG 53 ZED]

Originally Posted by Dav

Thanks, but I'll probs get the eBay jobbies.

Out of interest, is it just me you and Yampie from Southampton?

I have a set of ebay jobbies on my ZS at mo, have to say not impressed hence going down the oem route when i do my conversion. You me Yampie and Taphouse don't think there is anybody else from Southampton on the forum.