Fitting rear parking sensors

[andypryce]

Hi all,

Does anyone have experience of fitting rear parking sensors to a 1998 XK8? I recently fitted a set to my daughter’s 10 year old Mini and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was, did not even need to remove the bumper! I am tempted to try on my XK8 but not sure if it will be so easy?

[andypryce]

Scrub that question, on further inspection going to fit a camera instead, looks pretty simple, will post pics once done.

[JimMann]

Hi Andy,

Some interesting articles in the Modern XK column you may like to look up, the digital back catalogue is on this website:

January 2020 - fitting parking sensors to an X-100
September 2020 - updating the Satnav in the X-100
March 2021 - fitting a reversing camera in the X-100, after upgrading the Satnav as above

Cheers

Jim Mann

[andypryce]

Many thanks Jim

[andypryce]

The article relates to front parking sensors, after some research I am going for a rear camera, will write it up for the magazine once fitted.

[JimMann]

Cheers Andy,

An article for the column would be much appreciated.

Incidentally though, the aftermarket parking sensors are suitable for front or rear - in Ron's case, I think he had rear parking sensors already fitted to his car so only needed to fit to the front.

Jim Mann

[andypryce]

Ah yes, makes sense. I don’t want to eliminate all the risk from my life though

[mike020150]

Hi Andy,

In case you change your mind about fitting rear sensors, I can confirm that it was an easy task when I fitted some, many years ago. The most difficult bit was removing and cutting the rear bumper holes. Mike.

[andypryce]

Thanks Mike, halfway through fitting a camera now, no turning back!

[davidf]

Even easier than cutting rear bumpers is to fit a rear numberplate frame with sensors set at slight angles. i think mines called Parkmate , but different ones on Google search for about £50. Work well for me.

[Andy P]

Thanks for the tip David.
Could be quite a good alternative to drilling holes.
Take care.
Andy