Bull bars / light bars

Chevysousa · July 4, 2015

I haven't really seen much about it but i was looking at some bull bar or light bar styles and was wondering if any of these will effect my front parking sensors? i want to put like a 32" light bar on this so....but i dont want to be disabling my sensors.... any thoughts?

Gryphon762mm · July 13, 2015

I'm pretty shocked there isn't more info on this forum about this. I want to add a push bar to the front of my Denali and I'm positive the park assist sensors would throw a hissy fit every time the truck was started. Plus you can't turn them off permanently (not that I'd want to, they're a great feature).

In the tests I've done it looks like a small bull bar or push bar will only interfere with the front two sensors. The two corners should be fine as long as your bar doesn't exceed the width of the tow hooks. I'm planning to buy a pair of additional sensors and mounting brackets (the bezel around the sensor) and mount them in the push bar itself, then splice the factory wiring from the originals to the new ones in the bar. The truck should behave as normal.

Thankfully the factory harness for the park sensors is only a hundred bucks at the dealership (which means cheaper everywhere else) so if you muck it up it shouldn't be costly to repair. I just don't want to buy an expensive push bar only to find it doesn't work, so I'm trying to work a deal with the manufacturer to provide one at low/no cost and I will share my findings with them. Fingers crossed.

Chevysousa · July 13, 2015

I'm pretty shocked there isn't more info on this forum about this. I want to add a push bar to the front of my Denali and I'm positive the park assist sensors would throw a hissy fit every time the truck was started. Plus you can't turn them off permanently (not that I'd want to, they're a great feature).

In the tests I've done it looks like a small bull bar or push bar will only interfere with the front two sensors. The two corners should be fine as long as your bar doesn't exceed the width of the tow hooks. I'm planning to buy a pair of additional sensors and mounting brackets (the bezel around the sensor) and mount them in the push bar itself, then splice the factory wiring from the originals to the new ones in the bar. The truck should behave as normal.

Thankfully the factory harness for the park sensors is only a hundred bucks at the dealership (which means cheaper everywhere else) so if you muck it up it shouldn't be costly to repair. I just don't want to buy an expensive push bar only to find it doesn't work, so I'm trying to work a deal with the manufacturer to provide one at low/no cost and I will share my findings with them. Fingers crossed.

yeah i was thinking the same thing...maybe not many people dont have front sensors?