Anyone Fit Front Parking Sensors To A Mark 3 C5 (X7) ?

[paul.h]

Has anyone fit front parking sensors to a mark 3 C5 ? If so, what kit was used, cost and was it possible for it to be seen on the screen ?

[Johndouglas]

Often thought it would be useful to have but all I've done is fit them to the rear.

[paul.h]

I put the post on for another member (sloppysod) who is thinking of fitting them and using a Citroen kit - about £290 fitted from the Citroen Accessories website depending on which dealer you use. However, these are a stand alone kit, maybe 10 times the cost of something from ebay, but will not link in to the screen as ones supplied with a new car, which had been hoped for.

[Sloppysod]

Thanks paul.h for starting the post,

I have been doing some looking around and where I am up to is, I can buy a 'kit' from a Citroen Agent for £206, when I asked them whether they will fully integrate into my car I received the answer "These should work with your existing led display and have an audible warning. they will need to be programmed into the vehicle by a main dealer"  Now the tricky bit, getting them programmed into the car will need a Lexia, however, I believe, definitely with the early clones and possibly the newer versions (still looking), that when using the equipment to program/update parking sensors it corrupts the system so there do not work, however, reading on another forum, The member who seems to have done a lot of investigation says that he used the Peugeot Planet software and told his car it was a 407!! http://www.frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=405435#p405435.

 

So now, I save up my pennies and buy the kit, Lexia cables/software and the planet software and play or buy the kit and get a Citroen dealer to program my car to accept the front sensors - ???

 

When it happens I will give you all an update  :)

[paul.h]

If you go the dealer route you need to get a guarantee that it will integrate with your car screen before anything is done, however, I am still not convinced these kits do that so the guarantee is important. Our 2007 C5 has front/rear sensors as standard and the screen shows a car and which sensor is detecting something as well as giving the bleeps - it is not an LED display. If you order the parts to fit yourself from a dealer, make sure it can be returned if it is not what you were expecting since special order items are usually non returnable unless faulty or the dealer has got the part wrong.

[Sloppysod]

Hi , I have just found the dealer fiting instructions for front sensors and I am now completely confused as the dealer said that the display would show the distances at the front of the vehicle, this is from the fitting instructions and no mention of the visual aid on the LED screen, question points in red, the only benefit over the cheap ones is that the activation is automatic, depending on speed of if you were in reverse 20 seconds ago.

DESCRIPTION

• Parking assistance assists the driver in performing his manoeuvres.
• This parking assistance guarantees full detection of static or moving obstacles that are liable to be hit by the vehicle.
• An audible signal of variable intermittence indicates the distance between the vehicle and the obstacle.
• Comprises:
• 1 Active park control unit;
• 4 conventional sensors with set of shims (5°, 10°, 15°);
• 4 flush sensors with self-adhesive support kit;
• 1 supply harness;
• 1 switch;
• 1 bag of fixings (spacers, return springs, tie wraps, terminals...).
• 1 buzzer;
• Instructions in 10 languages (FR, EN, IT, DE, NL, PT, ES, PL, CS, HU).
• Reminder of the principle of operation of the front parking assistance:
• It operates from the time the vehicle moves off, for 5 seconds, to detect any obstacle in front;
• Permanently while reverse gear is engaged and for 20 seconds after reverse gear is disengaged;
• On pressing the ON/OFF button, for 20 seconds. If the press is too long, a new press deactivates it.TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
• Pushbutton control with indicator light.

I will keep digging.................

Edited May 8, 2015 by Sloppysod

[paul.h]

This sounds like the Citroen one the dealer fit to the front of our C3 which has a small on/off switch with a led in the switch to show when it is on. But it does not show on the car screen display, only buzzes with the buzz frequency increasing as you get nearer an object. Similarly the ones at the rear except here there is not a switch, it must work from the reversing lights and the buzzer has been stuck on a rear pillar.

[Sloppysod]

Yes reading the blurb, it certainly does, I will see what is involved in getting the system from a scrap car, I also did not like that with this particular 'kit' you drill new holes in the bumper, above the number plate and do not use the same hole positions as the factory fit ones.