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GranTurismo Parking sensors OEM only?

5.4K views 14 replies 6 participants last post by  Zoro48  
#1 ·
So I recently ran into the problem where one of my front parking sensors is faulty so at first every week or two I would get the error "Parking sensor Fault" but the next time I drove the car the error would be gone, so I was assuming water or something got into the sensor and a few people online/youtube videos stated spraying wd40 in the sensor then cleaning it out would remove the moisture/displace the water, and it did actually work for a few weeks/month. Ultimately one sensor was definitely bad as when I plug it into any of the other slots the error jumps to that circuit. (thank you autel code reader)

Now heres my question (even though I think the answer is to buy a replacement oem one)
on the sportsmaserati forum and maybe even an older post here, references the SKODA SUPERB 3U43U0919275C PDC Parking Sensor Parking as the cheaper replacement sensor. As a test I decided to buy these ( theres two types one yellow colored one like the maserati oem one and one black one ) I bought 1 yellow one(for 10$) and 4 of the black ones(for 30$).

The funny thing is the manufacture part number etched on all the sensors is EXACTLY the same part number as the ferrari oem one (ferrari literally just put a sticker over the part number). But all 5 of the skoda ones dont work and get a OPEN CIRCUIT error...

Has anyone actually tried these ? Or is there some other programming that needs to be done? My guess is no since I can plug any of the oem ones into any other of the front connectors and the open circuit error on that side goes away immediately.
 
#3 ·
Sock,
im sure they are china manufactured ones as I doubt these are made locally in europe, but they are all listed on ebay/amazon/walmart/ for 8-15 $ each. Only the skoda official part is 110$ on the uk website. But the thing is all 5 ( 4 black, 1 yellow ) skoda ones I bought from two different vendors dont work so that seems generally more unlikely.

By another coincidence someone on ebay yesterday was selling the entire maserati granturismo 2014-2015 front sensors wiring harness with the 4 oem sensors for 110$ so I just bought that and will report back on if one of those end up working or if it was my wiring harness that was bad. I am guessing it isnt the wiring harness since the error goes away in the circuit of any of the connectors that has an oem sensor but we will see in a few days.
 
#4 ·
Thanks Sock, replaced one of these sensors only once in my life. Wasn't Maserati though, was on my old BMW M6. I bit the bullet for an OEM one and never had any issues. Some stuff you just do better going the OEM route. Good luck astepabove.
 
#5 ·
Hi Gents,

Recently bought and replaced PDC front sensors on 2011GT. My experience do not buy aliexpress sensor because the sensitivity low or just not working. What I found (see pict) the old 2008 skoda sensor coming from same maufacturer and has same man nr. Works flavless! And cost 30 Eur . Left sensor (black middle) china copy, middle original , right skoda goggle it as U33160
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Cheers!

//M
 
#8 ·
Yes, I should've followed the thread for MY car instead of for a later GT :p ! For a Quattroporte 5 2008MY it's a 5J0919275A (Skoda Fabia 1, 6Y-5II, 545 Combi Roomster)

I didn't get to order one having got the wrong 3J0 series before. Rather I replaced the sender that had been punched out by being rear ended, and still had the fault. The fault had been cleared by someone else with an Autel but it came back. I have EasyMas and used that this afternoon, But found the fault returned. Until I switched it out using EasyMas and then performed a hard reset. And voila...! The fault didn't returned and the fault stayed cleared. I've found this "hard reset" -- disconnecting battery, waiting 30 secs and re-connecting again procedure -- has the effect that stored faults that aren't found on battery re-connect again are lost. Both the rear and front parking sensor arrays are working again now!

I've been told that after ten switch off and restarts, if the ECU doesn't find a particular fault that's shown as stored by dash icon then it'll cancel it anyway... Or is this just heresay?