Need to replace some parking sensors. Thinking of painting them using touch up paint.

Is this a terrible plan?

Not 100% positive, but painting/covering is likely to disable them. Worst case, also throws error codes or other warning signals.

Were the broken ones painted? Maybe you can swap the covers between them and the new ones.

The sensors were painted. Long story but the shop broke all of the clips on the sensors removing them from the bumper when I had a work box installed on the chassis. Didn't notice until we put the bed back on three years later and the shop was out of business.

I got quotes to paint them from $125 to $150. I needed touch up paint for the truck anyway so thought I might be able to do it that way. I've seen some instructional son it hit wanted to see if anyone had any personal experience.

reineraggie09 said:

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The sensors were painted. Long story but the shop broke all of the clips on the sensors removing them from the bumper when I had a work box installed on the chassis. Didn't notice until we put the bed back on three years later and the shop was out of business.

I got quotes to paint them from $125 to $150. I needed touch up paint for the truck anyway so thought I might be able to do it that way. I've seen some instructional son it hit wanted to see if anyone had any personal experience.

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Most painted OE sensors I've seen don't match the surrounding paint so you should be able to get away with it by using some adhesion promoter, duplicolor perfect match, and if you want an ok clear Spraymaxx 2k. If you go that route, you might be into it for $80-90. At that point, you need to decide if your labor is worth $35.

I attempted this last year with a mirror cap. Turned out amazing until it fell off the drying stand over night. It was all downhill from there trying to correct that error including several repaints and solvent issues. I ended up spending 3x what a shop would have charged me and in the end it looked like ***** I ended up buying CF replacements.

Thanks txyaloo!