FIXING BUMPER SENSOR

These sensors are great but they are only hot staked in place and so over time they may come free and then all you get is them going off whenever the car is not moving (why only when the car is not moving? Because the wind pushes it back and so it thinks it has more room while the car is moving).

My Solution

While not fancy, what I did was take a hot glue gun stick of glue and I heated it up with a hot air gun then I pressed it into the sensor. This gave me a way to hold onto the sensor. I then got some two part expoy and mixed it up and applied it to the inside of the bumper then I guided the sensor into place and pulled it into the right spot and that squished the expoy inbetween the sensor and the bumper. The hot glue you can remove with isopropyl alcohol.

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