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      11-15-2012, 12:46 PM   #3
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I've looked into adding parking sensors to the front as well. I've never come across any mention of one available stock for our cars. What you found is interesting, albeit pretty expensive.

There are very cheap parking sensor systems available on ebay. My thought was to get black sensors and mount them in the black mesh grill, rather than drill holes in the "fangs" and have to paint sensors to match.

As I see it, the biggest challenge is shutting off the sensor system once you are under way (you don't want to hear it every time you pull up to someone at a traffic light). One solution I was investigating was to use a timed momentary switch for power. Another solution I just thought of is to use a powered "latched" momentary switch. After you park and shut off the ignition the loss of power to the switch would turn it off.



None the less, I lost interest in doing this mod and just decided to be more diligent about not pulling up so far in parking spots.
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