back up sensor?? Anyone?

[JThiessen]

Was talking to a friend the other day and he mentioned that he had a back up sensor in his explorer. Just wondering if anyone has put one in their Rams??

 

[woodsrat]

back-up sensor??

is it a sensor or a backup alarm?? i have an alarm on mine just used one like on my dump trucks.

 

[DavidPope]

I was thinking you could probably go into ford and get the OEM ones... couldn't be too hard to instal!?



The ones on my buddies Explorer work crazy well...



Sounds like a good idea to me

 

[AggieJustin]

I believe you can get a parking sensor from Geno's. The receiver mounts by the rearview mirror and the sensor goes by the license plate... . I think.



JM

 

[Fireman]

Someone mentioned that on this forum a year or so ago, he installed an aftermarket backup sensor. Actually it had 2 or 3 sensors arrayed across the rear and the interrior unit mounted underneath the rearview mirror. I can't rember the companies web address, but do a search using the word poron . I seem to remember that the unit fell in the $100-$200 price range.



Fireman

 

[BarryG]

I have one of the ones that Genos sells and it works pretty well. It has 2 sensors that you mount in the rear. Mine are mounted on the hitch assembly and the unit I have mounted above my rear view mirror. It is a pretty accurate unit. It beeps, the closer the beeps the closer you are. It also has an actual readout of meters. It has two readouts, one for each sensor. When mine reads 0 it is about 1-1/12 feet away. The only bad thing is that if the sensors get dirty it thinks it is close to an object thereby rendering it sort of useless until you clean them.

 

[tpuig]

I had one of these on my old Durango, and finally got around to searching for one for my '03. Found it for $70 a couple places, but then found it here for 1/3 the price.

It's called the AutoPark 2000, and mounts on your license plate frame (or I guess you could be creative). Really simple install. Basically beeps when you put it into reverse and becomes faster as you become closer to objects. (It's to help gauge how close you are to something, not to warn others like a big truck)

Take a peek

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=21092



Hope this helps.

TP