Parking sensors kits - any good ?
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Originally Posted by Tiggs
parking sensors have nothing to do with "learn to drive"......i can drive my car within 3 inches of an obsticle knowing 100% that i am not going to touch it - you simply cant do that in a car without sensors.
so if you have sensors you can drive BETTER than those without them.
so if you have sensors you can drive BETTER than those without them.
parking isnt classed as driving, so the sensors dont have any affect on your driving
you can be a fantastic driver but carp at parking, like me
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Originally Posted by JamieMacdonald
Same applies to ABS, you disable it and use cadence braking do you??
and switch of the power steering, wind the windows by hand, crank the engine to start it and have a gramaphone in the head unit............why not just ride a dinosaur.
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Originally Posted by Tiggs
why not just ride a dinosaur.
However, your assumption that I'm a muppet without even knowing me is unfounded. I'm not going to get into a slanging match with you, because life's short enough as it is.
so you are intolerant of people that park where you dont want to/cant.
This entire post has obviously rattled some cages - it boils down to this :-
If you want em - get em.
If you use them - 'kin marvelous.
If, like me, you think they're a waste of time and money, and believe they are providing a service to a basic skill you should have when you pass your test, don't get them.
I'm entitled to my opinion. So are you (lot).
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Dan
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Originally Posted by ScoobyDoo555
LOL we do - they called Subarus
However, your assumption that I'm a muppet without even knowing me is unfounded. I'm not going to get into a slanging match with you, because life's short enough as it is.
No Tiggs. With great respect, please read my post - I'm intolerant of people who HAVE to use this kit to assist in a basic maneuver (sp?) That's all.
This entire post has obviously rattled some cages - it boils down to this :-
If you want em - get em.
If you use them - 'kin marvelous.
If, like me, you think they're a waste of time and money, and believe they are providing a service to a basic skill you should have when you pass your test, don't get them.
I'm entitled to my opinion. So are you (lot).
End of.
Dan
However, your assumption that I'm a muppet without even knowing me is unfounded. I'm not going to get into a slanging match with you, because life's short enough as it is.
No Tiggs. With great respect, please read my post - I'm intolerant of people who HAVE to use this kit to assist in a basic maneuver (sp?) That's all.
This entire post has obviously rattled some cages - it boils down to this :-
If you want em - get em.
If you use them - 'kin marvelous.
If, like me, you think they're a waste of time and money, and believe they are providing a service to a basic skill you should have when you pass your test, don't get them.
I'm entitled to my opinion. So are you (lot).
End of.
Dan
when i passed my test parking parking wasnt tested HTH
i think it was introduced fairly recently HTH
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Originally Posted by sarasquares
when i passed my test parking parking wasnt tested HTH
i think it was introduced fairly recently HTH
i think it was introduced fairly recently HTH
nor were mot's
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Those who think people shouldn't need them obviously have never lived in a city centre.
When I lived in Central London, my on-street parking permit only allowed me to park in a certain area. Sometimes there was only one space in that area (often a 10 minute walk from my flat). If that lone space was only 1.5 feet longer than my Scoob, it would take a while to get the blighter in there and out again. A parking sensor would've been a great help.
I get a similar situation here in Toronto - extremely limited permit parking made worse by having a bloody great barge of a car (which isn't mine) to shoehorn into spaces.
Also bear in mind that maybe your cars will get less dings if all the other "bad" drivers had parking sensors...
When I lived in Central London, my on-street parking permit only allowed me to park in a certain area. Sometimes there was only one space in that area (often a 10 minute walk from my flat). If that lone space was only 1.5 feet longer than my Scoob, it would take a while to get the blighter in there and out again. A parking sensor would've been a great help.
I get a similar situation here in Toronto - extremely limited permit parking made worse by having a bloody great barge of a car (which isn't mine) to shoehorn into spaces.
Also bear in mind that maybe your cars will get less dings if all the other "bad" drivers had parking sensors...
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I bought some sensors on Ebay some time ago, I had them on my Scoob and then changed onto my present car because thay are so useful.
I can't believe all this rubbishing about taking advantage of the added ease of parking. All this childish twaddle about being capable to drive or not is a complete waste of space. That person must have a very high opinion of himself. I feel that having parking sensors is on a par with making sure you can see really well out of the windscreen for normal driving!
Les
I can't believe all this rubbishing about taking advantage of the added ease of parking. All this childish twaddle about being capable to drive or not is a complete waste of space. That person must have a very high opinion of himself. I feel that having parking sensors is on a par with making sure you can see really well out of the windscreen for normal driving!
Les
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Originally Posted by Leslie
I bought some sensors on Ebay some time ago, I had them on my Scoob and then changed onto my present car because thay are so useful.
I can't believe all this rubbishing about taking advantage of the added ease of parking. All this childish twaddle about being capable to drive or not is a complete waste of space. That person must have a very high opinion of himself. I feel that having parking sensors is on a par with making sure you can see really well out of the windscreen for normal driving!
Les
I can't believe all this rubbishing about taking advantage of the added ease of parking. All this childish twaddle about being capable to drive or not is a complete waste of space. That person must have a very high opinion of himself. I feel that having parking sensors is on a par with making sure you can see really well out of the windscreen for normal driving!
Les
I heard the other day that BMW's fitted with parking sensors actually brake the car before you hit something , and the new top of the range Lexus show's a camera's eye view of the rear end when reverse is engaged .
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I think in either case, as long as you reverse VERY slowly when coming up to something then you arent going to do much damage to either your car or someone elses - when I learned to drive doing parallel parks, I was always told on the last bit of the reverse you should be barely moving.
Woman round the corner has some horrible Fiat, and shes obviously reversed into a post, but must have been booting it as there is a post shaped dent 6 inches deep in her rear hatchback bit ( this is after the post went through about 4" of bumper ! ).
With the scoob I find it very hard to estimate where the back is when close reversing, and tend to leave a huge gap and then get moaned at by my wife saying I could've gone back another 2 foot !
Woman round the corner has some horrible Fiat, and shes obviously reversed into a post, but must have been booting it as there is a post shaped dent 6 inches deep in her rear hatchback bit ( this is after the post went through about 4" of bumper ! ).
With the scoob I find it very hard to estimate where the back is when close reversing, and tend to leave a huge gap and then get moaned at by my wife saying I could've gone back another 2 foot !
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Originally Posted by MikeCardiff
With the scoob I find it very hard to estimate where the back is when close reversing, and tend to leave a huge gap and then get moaned at by my wife saying I could've gone back another 2 foot !
I do genuinely wonder about some of the people on this board!
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I could, but then could I be ar5ed ? problem is with the immobiliser fitted, once you turn off the engine when you stop, you have to arm and then disarm the alarm before you can restart it.
I'm one of those lazy people who as long as its parked reasonably well will leave it there and not fuss around with it.
I'm one of those lazy people who as long as its parked reasonably well will leave it there and not fuss around with it.
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weird place this.....in the last 3 post one person says you wont do much damage if you go slow enough then another says he parks crap and cant be arsed to alter it.........................yet parking sensors are deemed rubbish?
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Originally Posted by Tiggs
parking sensors have nothing to do with "learn to drive"......i can drive my car within 3 inches of an obsticle knowing 100% that i am not going to touch it - you simply cant do that in a car without sensors.
so if you have sensors you can drive BETTER than those without them.
so if you have sensors you can drive BETTER than those without them.
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It's not difficult to read a map but it's a hell of a lot easier to punch your destination into a navigation system and follow the directions.
Too many luddites around holding back technology!
Too many luddites around holding back technology!
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The one thing the anti-sensor brigade are missing is :
ITS ANOTHER TOY TO PUT ON THE CAR - we're men, this is what we do - we buy gadgets we dont really need, the more flashing lights and beeping things on them the better ! We buy perfectly good cars, but cant stop ourselves modifying them and sticking new bits on, spend loads on performance upgrades most of us never really need etc...
If we didnt, we'd spend all our money on shoes - own up, how many men on here own more than 5 pairs of shoes ? - and all our time telling our partners ( at great length ) about what 'so and so' ( who they have never even met ) did at work today, and expect them to be really interested.
IN WHICH CASE WE'D BE WOMEN.
Buying gadgets is our democratic right - when we gave women the vote, our side of the deal was that we can waste our money on stupid things and bore the **** of women explaining all the technical details of exactly what it does.
ITS ANOTHER TOY TO PUT ON THE CAR - we're men, this is what we do - we buy gadgets we dont really need, the more flashing lights and beeping things on them the better ! We buy perfectly good cars, but cant stop ourselves modifying them and sticking new bits on, spend loads on performance upgrades most of us never really need etc...
If we didnt, we'd spend all our money on shoes - own up, how many men on here own more than 5 pairs of shoes ? - and all our time telling our partners ( at great length ) about what 'so and so' ( who they have never even met ) did at work today, and expect them to be really interested.
IN WHICH CASE WE'D BE WOMEN.
Buying gadgets is our democratic right - when we gave women the vote, our side of the deal was that we can waste our money on stupid things and bore the **** of women explaining all the technical details of exactly what it does.
#53
Originally Posted by Danbo
Of course you can. Its not that difficult to learn the length of your car.
lean how to write and submit your next contribution to this thread by Royal Mail.
#54
With the present fashion of high rear ends in cars it is more difficult to judge where the back of the car is. With parking sensors that problem is removed and life is so much easier.
Les
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Got them fitted on the NSX (not my idea ). Don't really need them but it does have such a huge rear blind spot that reverse parking can be a bit awkward to judge. Don't know the make, but they work and look like standard fitment (sensors were sprayed to match the bumper. Apart from the bleeper is bit on the loud side. They were not cheapies though (not that rather dodgy looking JML stuff ) - about £80 all in.
I think the point on learn to park is somewhat valid, as you should be able to be capeable of reverse-parallel parking your car without them before using these. It seems to be a lost art in this day and age...Most people drive in forwards, over the curb, drop it off the curb with **** of the car hanging 3ft out in the road, then shuffle backwards and forward 4 or more times to bring the rear end level with the curb - or bodge it up even further The correct method is reversing in, if done right can be done in one single attempt without going back and fourth repeatedly, or at the most once.
I say this beacuse these sensors are an aid or rough guide, you can't blindly depend on them totally.. Even the standard ones on some cars are not 100%, as they are not very good at picking up towbars, or bollards etc. - I have often endured a fellow irate parker's rants at how it went beep beep beep *BANG*
I think the point on learn to park is somewhat valid, as you should be able to be capeable of reverse-parallel parking your car without them before using these. It seems to be a lost art in this day and age...Most people drive in forwards, over the curb, drop it off the curb with **** of the car hanging 3ft out in the road, then shuffle backwards and forward 4 or more times to bring the rear end level with the curb - or bodge it up even further The correct method is reversing in, if done right can be done in one single attempt without going back and fourth repeatedly, or at the most once.
I say this beacuse these sensors are an aid or rough guide, you can't blindly depend on them totally.. Even the standard ones on some cars are not 100%, as they are not very good at picking up towbars, or bollards etc. - I have often endured a fellow irate parker's rants at how it went beep beep beep *BANG*
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