Bought a £30 quid reversing kit from ebay last week. Wasn't expecting much as £30 is kinda cheap, but it's a great kit!
Four sensors which get drilled into the bumper (the kit even included the drill bit) and a little digital display module that I've mounted up over the rear view mirror which has a bar graph showing distance on left or right, and a digital readout of the distance to the nearest object in meters (0.3m for eg). Early tests indicate it picks up objects as far away as 2.0m and goes down to 0.3m before it can't read any nearer. The unit bleeps slowly at first and picks up speed the nearer you get, sounding a continuous tone on the 0.3m mark.
Great kit, can't believe it is so accurate for the price, was expecting it to be a bit rubbish really. Doubting it somewhat at first, I selotaped the four sensors to the kitchen table and gave it +12v then walked around the kitchen testing it fully before taking the drill to my bumper
The fitting was very straight forward. The rear bumper is held on with only 7 plastic screws, 2 metal screws and some plastic clips (worrying really!). With the bumper off, there are four marks clearly visable on the inside of the bumper where the OEM sensors should go, I simply drilled a pilot from the inside out, then drilled the full size hole from the outside in, this ensured no burring of the plastic etc. There is a gromet behind the bumper which lets you pass wires into the boot, again for OEM use, so the four wires from the four sensors simply passed through here and into the boot with ease.
Once in the boot, a control module gets fitted behind the boot trim (doublesided pad included) which takes connections from the four sensors, power to the unit and the remote display unit plugs in here too. I took the +12v from the reversing lights and used a nearby earth so the unit comes on automatically as soon as you select the reverse gear.
It took longer to run the wire for the digital display over the mirror and to the boot than it did to get the bumper off, drill, fit sensors and replace bumper! Maybe I'm just fussy about not seeing any wires
Will take some photos and post up later, but can well recommend both the supplier (on ebay) and the kit itself!
Four sensors which get drilled into the bumper (the kit even included the drill bit) and a little digital display module that I've mounted up over the rear view mirror which has a bar graph showing distance on left or right, and a digital readout of the distance to the nearest object in meters (0.3m for eg). Early tests indicate it picks up objects as far away as 2.0m and goes down to 0.3m before it can't read any nearer. The unit bleeps slowly at first and picks up speed the nearer you get, sounding a continuous tone on the 0.3m mark.
Great kit, can't believe it is so accurate for the price, was expecting it to be a bit rubbish really. Doubting it somewhat at first, I selotaped the four sensors to the kitchen table and gave it +12v then walked around the kitchen testing it fully before taking the drill to my bumper
The fitting was very straight forward. The rear bumper is held on with only 7 plastic screws, 2 metal screws and some plastic clips (worrying really!). With the bumper off, there are four marks clearly visable on the inside of the bumper where the OEM sensors should go, I simply drilled a pilot from the inside out, then drilled the full size hole from the outside in, this ensured no burring of the plastic etc. There is a gromet behind the bumper which lets you pass wires into the boot, again for OEM use, so the four wires from the four sensors simply passed through here and into the boot with ease.
Once in the boot, a control module gets fitted behind the boot trim (doublesided pad included) which takes connections from the four sensors, power to the unit and the remote display unit plugs in here too. I took the +12v from the reversing lights and used a nearby earth so the unit comes on automatically as soon as you select the reverse gear.
It took longer to run the wire for the digital display over the mirror and to the boot than it did to get the bumper off, drill, fit sensors and replace bumper! Maybe I'm just fussy about not seeing any wires
Will take some photos and post up later, but can well recommend both the supplier (on ebay) and the kit itself!
