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Composition Color 5" Parking sensors installation
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 1:21 pm
by Black6c
Looking to fit my 2017 6c which has a 5 inch Composition Color screen parking sensors. I want them to appear on the screen itself and not on a separate monitor (like I have now). I'm wondering, how complicated is it to do for a professional installer. I have already contacted a few places which said there's a need for an adapter which costs about 500€. How can I know if my current screen can handle this installation? (e.g - no adapter) and if there is any need for an adapter, does it have to be so expensive?
Re: Composition Color 5" Parking sensors installation
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 2:23 pm
by RUM4MO
Well after reading this opening posting, I checked up on what is available on the Kufatec website, and they sell the complete kit for £600 whatever that is in Euros I can't say.
Now, when I bought my 2011 Audi S4 second hand, it had rear parking sensors and no OPS, I sourced cables from Kufatec, controller, buzzer and switch from ebay and two parking sensors from a German retro fitting specialist and two from ebay, and then bought genuine Audi paint spray kit to spray two of the sensors. I also needed to buy extra wire, contact pins and crimping pliers to use them, and special hole punching kit to cut the holes and hold the backing support brackets in place while the structural adhesive cured. That allowed me to change that car to be exactly as it would have been if the full parking sensors with OPS had been selected as an option at initial build, I own VCDS so I was able to recode the used controller and to recode radio etc to recognise that this kit had been fitted.
So, yes, it can cost quite a lot of money to achieve what the manufacturer would have fitted at the factory if that option had been selected, and if you do it yourself, a lot of time collecting all the parts and installing it.
Which leads people to do what you seem to have done, which is buy an aftermarket kit with its own display, I'd never expect that you could cheaply achieve what you want to either by using what you have already bought or getting some "adaptor".
Re: Composition Color 5" Parking sensors installation
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 2:32 pm
by Black6c
RUM4MO wrote: Wed Aug 29, 2018 2:23 pm
Well after reading this opening posting, I checked up on what is available on the Kufatec website, and they sell the complete kit for £600 whatever that is in Euros I can't say.
Now, when I bought my 2011 Audi S4 second hand, it had rear parking sensors and no OPS, I sourced cables from Kufatec, controller, buzzer and switch from ebay and two parking sensors from a German retro fitting specialist and two from ebay, and then bought genuine Audi paint spray kit to spray two of the sensors. I also needed to buy extra wire, contact pins and crimping pliers to use them, and special hole punching kit to cut the holes and hold the backing support brackets in place while the structural adhesive cured. That allowed me to change that car to be exactly as it would have been if the full parking sensors with OPS had been selected as an option at initial build, I own VCDS so I was able to recode the used controller and to recode radio etc to recognise that this kit had been fitted.
So, yes, it can cost quite a lot of money to achieve what the manufacturer would have fitted at the factory if that option had been selected, and if you do it yourself, a lot of time collecting all the parts and installing it.
Which leads people to do what you seem to have done, which is buy an aftermarket kit with its own display, I'd never expect that you could cheaply achieve what you want to either by using what you have already bought or getting some "adaptor".
Thank you for providing me with this information. I guess I'll have to go aftermarket because it is too much of an expense for me right now (The main reason I'm contemplating on replacing the rear sensors is because they got hit and don't work the same). I didn't think it'll be such an expensive matter, unless there is a cheaper solution somewhere else
