Can parking sensors be unplugged or bypassed?

[GettingTooOld]

First post on this forum, on behalf of my daughter.

MY10 Tiguan, with factory fitted parking sensors. Front and rear.

My daughter recently purchased a MY10 Tiguan as her first car.

It had front and rear factory fitted parking sensors.

She lives in regional qld, and drives occasionally on the highway etc, so looked around for either a nudge bar or a bullbar to suit.

Contacted a reputable manufacturer who had a bullbar listed for the MY10 model Tiguan, and asked the question, does it interfere with the front parking sensors. Was told by two staff members that the front parking sensors were not interfered with or blocked on that model vehicle. I also called the company and provided them with the model of the vehicle and explained the location of the parking sensors, and the guy on the phone told me that their model of bullbar didn't interfer with the sensors.

So she ordered a bullbar, had to wait 4 weeks for it be manufactured and then fitted.

When she got the car back, the parking sensors at the front are permanently blocking and the alarm sounds, so she has to deactivate the sensors each time she gets in the car, so she loses he functionality of the reversing sensors.

When she contacted the bullbar manufacturer, they said because she didn't get the statement in writing from their staff members prior to ordering, it's her problem not theirs. They recommended, if she didn't want to the bullbar, pull it off and throw it up on gumtree, and she'll get some of money back on it. When I called them back, apparently the staff member I spoke with was a junior staff member and wasn't qualified to provide that information. So, they basically told me 'nothing they can do about it now'.

Poor treatment on their behalf, she felt it was because she was a young women and a first time car owner she felt bullied and misled at the end of the experience.

Anyway, she wants the protection of the bullbar, but she has asked me if I can find out if there is some way of disabling just the offending sensors, but leaving the remaining sensors operating. As she said, if she could unplug or maybe bypass the two offending sensors (they don't matter now as sensors, with the bullbar in place it'll protect the front bumper), but she would like the use of the rear sensors.

Does anyone here know how the sensors are connected and can they be bypassed?

Thanks in advance.
-G