Hi All,

I'm hoping someone can help, I have a new 65 plate Fiesta Titanium X with a body kit - which meant I had to have the front parking sensors fitted at the Ford garage after manufacture.

Has anyone else had these done?

They are driving me crazy, if I start the car the front parking sensors will beep like mad, sometimes there doesn't even need to be a car anywhere near my car, sometimes there may be a car at the side of me, but tbh not close enough in my opinion to set them off.

For example, outside my house, I park facing my house. I drive up to the house, turn on the sensors, they don't go off when I park as I am not close enough to the house to trigger them. I then turn off the car.... turn it back on, and the parking sensors beep like crazy, yet I am not near enough to the house. However, sometimes it won't come on and all is fine!

Also, shouldn't they only come on if I select first gear, not if I just start up the car?

The car has already been back to the dealer - the 2nd day of owning it - and they found a faulty sensor module and replaced it.

Your ideas would be much appreciated :-)

I'm not sure how the front ones work but I would expect them to behave like the rear ones do. I had rear sensors fitted at the ford garage after it has been built and the rear sensors switch on when you engage reverse gear. When you put it into reverse they give an initial single beep to let you know they are switched on and working.

I'd expect the front ones to behave in the same way but only when you put it in first gear, if not and they are on all the time, wouldn't that be annoying, like if you drifted to close to the back of someones car in triffic etc?

I was talked out of having the front ones by the salesman who said "you can see the front clear, don't waste your money" and only had the rear ones fitted. The only issue was the paint match was wrong so car was returned and rectified. Already had 1 sensor replaced

The outer sensors detect up to 2ft at an angle and centre ones 3ft forward. After ign on sensors will detect in that area, if nothing detected after 30 secs then the sensors go to sleep.

The idea behind that is sensors are on and sensing as soon as you manoeuvre your car, then after no detection of 30 secs its off so they dont trigger when for instance your at a t junction and traffic passes by your bumper or heavy rain while driving, then when you want to manoeuvre again you switch them back on via button.

If your still getting unexpected issues, then the garage needs to recheck the wiring up of the feeds and earths are done correctly