Rear parking sensor replacement.

[Dani_B19]

Anyone and tips and advice for replace the rear right parking sensor? Can I get to it without removing anything?

 

[Charlie Farley]

by the time you have messed around , struggled to get at them in situ, and just generally got issed off with the job, it would have been just as quick and a lot less hassle to remove the bumper and while its off check the others , its sods law that as soon as you do one, another will play up, a bit of preventative maintainance never hurts.
I know you need to whip out some of the rear load area trim , but its not that bigger task.


good luck.

 

[Dani_B19]

How hard is it to remove mate? What preventive measure can I take?

 

[SDHA4SLine]

by the time you have messed around , struggled to get at them in situ, and just generally got issed off with the job, it would have been just as quick and a lot less hassle to remove the bumper and while its off check the others , its sods law that as soon as you do one, another will play up, a bit of preventative maintainance never hurts.
I know you need to whip out some of the rear load area trim , but its not that bigger task.


good luck.

Agreed, about two weeks after replacing a faulty sensor on mine a second failed so I just replaced the remaining three on second visit

 

[Dani_B19]

So even with my shovel hands I've managed to get the sensor without removing the bumper unfortunately the 2 inner sensors have now gone. Are they the same part number as the outers?

 

[Charlie Farley]

have you managed to remove the inner ones yet or just outers, try doing the inners with a towbar fitted.....

 

[Dani_B19]

Part numbers are the same for reference.

Yup, managed to get my hand up their earlier, so justbwaitin for them to come nar and will get them fitted.

 

[Charlie Farley]

ah yours is a saloon then , i misunderstood and thought you had an avant, mine is an avant with a westfalia towbar, no way i could get my hand behind the bumper to get at any of mine, must be a lot more room to get at them on your saloon then

 

[Dani_B19]

Wouldn't say a lot mate but just enough, arms a mess though haha.

 

[Charlie Farley]

sounds like you're mr bendy then , my arms gave up bending to impossible angles sometime ago, i think its an old age thing lol.....