Do the three sensors need to be flush with the front of the grille inserts or flush with the grill trim to be most effective?
Do the three sensors need to be flush with the front of the grille inserts or flush with the grill trim to be most effective?
Flush with the outer Grill trim would be most effective - flush with the grill mesh would be more stealth but should get it tested to make sure you're protected.
Personally I'd make them flush with the outer grill trim and go for performance over looks and put them like the Jeep BRD posted....Your grill is all blacked out and it would be hard to see them there anyway.
I have mine on a chrome grill for 8 months and to this day I've never had a single person notice them. 1 person did see my rear sensors and said oh hey parking sensors...do they work good?
Last edited by tawwwd; 05-23-2015 at 12:20 AM.
prowler793 (05-23-2015)
Flush w/ the grill inserts (meaning flush w/ the front edge of the lattice work) will perform just fine. Just try to keep the "bubble" centered horizontally, (like as shown in the pix you posted). This is b/c you want to minimize any chances of "shading" being caused if the receiving "bubble" is to close to either side of the outer chrome trim that surrounds the inner lattice work. Shading occurs when you get within a few hundred feet of the Shooter & the incoming incident angles increase dramatically the closer you get to a Shooter on either side of road shoulders.Originally Posted by prowler793
prowler793 (05-23-2015)
how is this install?
Last edited by prowler793; 05-23-2015 at 11:39 AM.
It could be the picture but the heads do not look to be level or aligned.how is this install?
^ - I'm observing the same condition from the pix !
Far Rightside/Leftside Sensors appear to be slanted outwards following the curvature of the vehicle's body. The Center Sensor appears to be tilted upward.
Take two/three more pix for us.
1. At Bumper high from Passenger side looking across Front-end.
2. At Bumper high from Driver side looking across the Front-end.
3. From exact Center knees 6" from Bumper looking almost straight down from shoulder height, try to get all 3 Sensors within frame.
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Last edited by prowler793; 05-23-2015 at 03:27 PM.
Much improved over what you had before !
Looks pretty good & rather Stealthy,too. Next-up is Testing against a good civilian Shooter before you're ready for the Blue Meanies.
prowler793 (05-23-2015)
Thank you RedRocket. I was getting a little disappointed they could not get the alignment; however, they did give 100% on trying to make it right. I think overall it's quite stealthlike, I just hope it's super effective.
Last edited by prowler793; 05-23-2015 at 06:37 PM.
Hopefully the shop learned a lesson and they don't do future installs that way. The original install was really awful. Looks much better now.
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