Member Since: 14 May 2016
Location: surrey
Posts: 46
parking sensors
aaahhhhh my parking sensors rarely work! They beep then the light? Any ideas?
Have cleaned sensors
common problem?
7th Nov 2017 12:48 am
Nasher
Member Since: 07 Mar 2009
Location: Clanfield, North of Pompey - UK
Posts: 2685
Far too common I'm afraid.
It's worth dropping the bumpers to clean the connectors etc, but it's probably going to be a sensor gone down.
They are easy enough to diagnose though, and quite cheap.
Stick the car in gear with the ignition on but without the engine running, and listen to each one, they are surprisingly loud from a couple of inches away, but you might need to stick one ear right up against it.
The one that's gone down is the one that doesn't click.
Obviously it's Forward for the front ones and Reverse for the rear ones.
Dropping the bumpers is a bit of a faff, but not difficult.
Remember the bolt behind the headlights at the front
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7th Nov 2017 8:48 am
Nasher
Member Since: 07 Mar 2009
Location: Clanfield, North of Pompey - UK
Posts: 2685
Some say you can get to the front ones without removing the bumper, through the spotlight holes, but I've never managed it.
This is what's required to drop the front bumper.
It looks drastic, but only takes @20mins.
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7th Nov 2017 8:55 am
Windy Miller
Member Since: 30 Oct 2017
Location: farnham
Posts: 9
one of my front ones has gone but on a G4 D3 it means a big heap of work to remove it all ,think i will stick to the old way of parking for now .
7th Nov 2017 9:39 am
Roidster
Member Since: 04 Nov 2016
Location: London/Herts
Posts: 137
As you said, if it one of the outer fronts, you can definitely get to them through the fog light hole very easily2005 Discovery 3 HSE
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