Escort Guardian Alert Quick Start Manual

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Table of Contents

Understanding Guardian Alert

You’ve just purchased the most accurate and

thorough reverse obstacle-detection system
available—ESCORT Guardian Alert. With ESCORT’s
advanced, proven radar technology, Guardian Alert
adds an unmatched dimension of safety to your
vehicle by detecting obstacles in your path and
warning of pending collisions when backing up.

Guardian Alert offers the following state-of-

the art performance and features:

• Proprietary three-dimensional technology
provides the most comprehensive blind-zone
coverage available, scanning and detecting people
and obstacles from ground level up to 5 ft. vertically,
across the width of your vehicle, and extending 9 ft.
behind your vehicle.

• Active warning system provides both audio
and visual alerts when an obstacle is detected,
versus passive camera warning systems that require
the driver to look in the monitor at all times.

• Unlike ultrasonic parking aids, Guardian Alert
is unaffected by environmental/weather conditions,

such as dirt, snow, rain, salt deposits, wind, and cold

operating temperatures.

Understanding Guardian Alert 3

• How Guardian Alert Works 3

• Comprehensive Blind-Zone Coverage 3

• All-Weather Performance 3

• No Nuisance Notifications 3

• No Unnoticed Alerts 3

• No Interference 3

• What’s Included 3

Installing Guardian Alert 4-5

Quick-Fit Hitch Model 4

• Removing For Towing 4

• Re-Installing After Towing 4

Direct Connect Hitch Model 5

• Removing For Towing 5

How Guardian Alert Works

Using ESCORT’s proprietary advanced radar
technology, Guardian Alert essentially creates a
three-dimensional cube of blind-zone coverage,
scanning for objects while your vehicle is engaged in
reverse. If an obstacle is detected within this cube of
coverage while you are backing up, the system alerts
you with both an audio and visual warning,
preventing injuries and vehicle damage.

NOTE: Each time your vehicle is placed in reverse,
Guardian Alert will complete a brief self test, beeping
and flashing the alert light to indicate the unit is
functioning properly.

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Miniature display module

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Hitch radar sensor

All-Weather Performance

Guardian Alert’s proprietary advanced radar
(microwave) technology not only detects obstacles,
preventing backovers and collisions, its performance
is unaffected by environmental/weather conditions,
such as dirt, snow, rain, salt deposits, wind and cold
operating temperatures. Guardian Alert’s system
will function properly even if totally covered in snow,
ice, or mud. Ultrasonic backing aids cannot match
this maintenance-free performance.

No Nuisance Notifications

Guardian Alert runs on an operating principle of
diminishing distance, which means it senses only
the diminishing distance between your vehicle and
any object. If the distance between your vehicle and
an object does not decrease, a collision cannot occur.
By following this operating principle, Guardian Alert
is able to avoid nuisance notifications.

No Unnoticed Alerts

To ensure no alert goes unnoticed, the Driver Display

comes standard with a 75-dB volume that cannot be
adjusted. False alarms are infrequent; therefore, each
alert requires your immediate attention. An optional
95-dB volume Driver Display (used mostly in

commercial trucks) is also available.

• Quick-Fit Hitch offers easy installation and
convenient removal for towing.

• Direct-Connect Hitch offers equally effective
installation via direct connection to the reverse-light
wiring for vehicles without a standard power
receptacle (professional installation recommended).

Be sure to read this Owner’s Manual in detail to

get the most out of your Guardian Alert’s
revolutionary performance and innovative features.

Please drive safely.

• Re-installing After Towing 5

Testing Guardian Alert 6

Specifications 6

Warranty and Service 7

FCC Note: Modifications not expressly
approved by the manufacturer could
void the user’s FCC granted authority to
operate the equipment.

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Comprehensive Blind-Zone Coverage

All vehicles have unique rear blind zones of varying

dimensions. Guardian Alert provides the most
comprehensive blind-zone coverage available,
scanning from the rear of your vehicle back 9 ft.,
across the width of your vehicle, and from ground
level up to 5 ft. vertically.

 Beam Pattern

Top View

 Beam Pattern

Side View

No Interference

Guardian Alert’s sensor is pulse modulated so that it
will not set off radar detectors or interfere with
similar devices. In fact, multiple sensors may be used

on the same vehicle.

What’s Included

• Hitch Radar Sensor

• Miniature Driver Display Module

• 7-Blade Connector (Quick-Fit only)

• Cable Set

• Velcro Stick Pad, Cable Ties and Alcohol Pad