My first post - I've had a 2012+ Panda since 2013. I know it's a short car but the inability to crane my neck round far enough warranted the fitting of some simple sensors.
I found a Cisbo Parking Sensor Kit highly recommended on Amazon. At only £14.50 or so it was worth a try.
The kit consists of a control box, 4 sensors with cables (I used 2), a power cable, and a buzzer. The instructions aren't brilliant but it's not really hard to figure out. So here are some photos of how I did it.
The control box and buzzer can fit quite conveniently in the boot, to the rear of the tool tray.
The major challenge is to identify the power supply wire to the reversing light. The way I did it was to open up the light fitting and connect a meter to the pins until I found the correct wire (i.e. the one with +12V on it when reverse is engaged).
Having done that I connected up the sensor kit, by poking the wires into the light fitting, engaged reverse, and checked the sensors operated:
The next job is to identify the wire colour, which means disassembling the plastic light fitting:
In my case the wire was grey and green (photo shows the fitting with the right-angled boot removed):
Now, in the car boot I located the cable (it comes up through a grommet) and stripped the insulation back. I decided to solder my connection and use heat-shrink sleeving to insulate, but of course there are other options.
Next comes the fitting of the sensors - the hole cutter supplied with the kit worked really well:
The sensors are a push fit:
Finally, here is the assembled kit (the sensor wires are very long so I just coiled them up):
I found a Cisbo Parking Sensor Kit highly recommended on Amazon. At only £14.50 or so it was worth a try.
The kit consists of a control box, 4 sensors with cables (I used 2), a power cable, and a buzzer. The instructions aren't brilliant but it's not really hard to figure out. So here are some photos of how I did it.
The control box and buzzer can fit quite conveniently in the boot, to the rear of the tool tray.
The major challenge is to identify the power supply wire to the reversing light. The way I did it was to open up the light fitting and connect a meter to the pins until I found the correct wire (i.e. the one with +12V on it when reverse is engaged).
Having done that I connected up the sensor kit, by poking the wires into the light fitting, engaged reverse, and checked the sensors operated:
The next job is to identify the wire colour, which means disassembling the plastic light fitting:
In my case the wire was grey and green (photo shows the fitting with the right-angled boot removed):
Now, in the car boot I located the cable (it comes up through a grommet) and stripped the insulation back. I decided to solder my connection and use heat-shrink sleeving to insulate, but of course there are other options.
Next comes the fitting of the sensors - the hole cutter supplied with the kit worked really well:
The sensors are a push fit:
Finally, here is the assembled kit (the sensor wires are very long so I just coiled them up):
