Park Distance Control | Buyer’s Guide

Top Features to Look for in Park Distance Control Systems: A Buyer’s Guide

Misjudging a parking space, specifically when reverse parking where there could be an obstruction in your blind spot, can cause extensive damage to your vehicle, or worse, passing pedestrians. With park distance control fitted on the rear bumper of your vehicle, not only will parking become a breeze but it will also benefit low-speed manoeuvring around corners, as the system alerts you to surrounding obstacles. At Electronic Fitment Centre, we can help you protect the exterior of your vehicle from low-lying and sometimes unseen obstacles by installing a park distance control system.

How Does Park Distance Control Work?

An electrical source unit generates a signal that is transmitted and bounced off an object, such as a kerb, and returns it to the source. Depending on the vehicle’s speed and distance to the object, a return signal will warn the driver (either visually or audibly, or both) in which general direction the obstacle is and the proximity to it, enabling the driver to prevent a possible collision.

Safety When Reversing and Parking

Normally reserved as a feature in new vehicles, aftermarket park distance control systems can be installed in your “pride and joy” at competitive rates, allowing you to park safely. Embedded in the bumpers, sensors using ultrasonic proximity detectors measure the distance between your vehicle and low-lying objects, alerting you to the obstacle. Research has shown that 25% of all reported collisions arise from vehicles reversing, occurring mostly at places of work and in parking lots. Reversing incidents can result in injury and extensive property damage, not to mention damage to your vehicle.

Advantages of Having Park Distance Control Installed

Taking these statistics into consideration, we at Electronic Fitment Centre offer customers thirdEYE parking protection and have compiled a list of the features you can expect from their park distance control systems, ensuring the safety of your vehicle and others whilst parking and reversing:

1. You get an advanced warning if obstacles come within sensor range.

2. It aids in preventing unnecessary vehicle damage costs.

3. Reversing, parking, and low-speed manoeuvring with park distance control are easy and risk-free.

4. It eliminates the visibility concern around blind spots and corners.

5. Our park distance control systems are approved by major motor manufacturers.

6. They have fully self-diagnostic systems.

7. It has a complete, factory-fitted look.

8. You get a choice of audio or visual display.

9. It fits all types of vehicles.

10. Fitment can be done on steel and plastic bumpers.

Leaders in Aftermarket Vehicle Protection

For over 20 years, we at Electronic Fitment Centre have ensured the safety of drivers, passengers, and vehicles with our range of vehicle protection accessories. With a skilled and dedicated team of in-store and mobile fitment specialists servicing the Gauteng area and surrounds, your vehicle’s exterior security is in safe hands. Contact us to find out more about how our thirdEYE park distance control systems can benefit you.