Painting parking sensors

[John LE]

I'm away to fit my park pilot system to my vec and in the insrtuctions it shows a picture of a spray gun, an exclamation mark and a picture of a book/set of instuctions. Is there any special procedures required for painting park pilot?

Im sure there is a thread with somone spraying park pilot sensors but i can't find it when i need it

[vxvirgin]

I read somewhere about metallic paint causing false returns. ANyway, painted mine with star silver and lacquer and they work fine - and no sign of it coming off in general use or when cleaning. I didn't prep them in any way, as I normally would on plastic, again for fear of interfering with the 'beams'.

[Deztroyer]

yep just be sure as to not paint them too heavily as they will not work !

[John LE]

Cheers lads, i have flame red so no worries with the metallic flake causing problems, would a coat of clear on the top cause problems? Have enough problems witht the rest of the car turning pink without the parking sensors doing it too

[Tadpole]

I gave mine a light rub with shotchbright for a key, three coats of paint one of lacquer hth .....

[John LE]

Spot on cheers,are the vx paints worth the money??

[Tadpole]

I bought mine at the local autospares shop. For such a small area I don't think it will notice too much hth ....

[vxvirgin]

Halfords star silver was a pretty good match for me: http://www.vectra-c.com/forum/showpo...7&postcount=21