Rearview Mirror Camera
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I have this done a long time ago you don’t need to solder any wires. The guy in the video is soldering wires for the power to the camera. I tapped this power from the fuse box in engine bay. It’s much easier that way.
i even installed oem button today.
i even installed oem button today.
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I like the switch. Is that the switch from the Beat-Sonic CS6 Toyota kit? If not, where did you get it?
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#20
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I cancelled my order without incident this morning. I thought that there would be a fuss but nope, no fuss. No spending money on things I can't complete or don't feel comfortable doing.
edit: I wound up purchasing the one on Nigel's site with the video in the rearview mirror. much simpler.
edit: I wound up purchasing the one on Nigel's site with the video in the rearview mirror. much simpler.
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I cancelled my order without incident this morning. I thought that there would be a fuss but nope, no fuss. No spending money on things I can't complete or don't feel comfortable doing.
edit: I wound up purchasing the one on Nigel's site with the video in the rearview mirror. much simpler.
edit: I wound up purchasing the one on Nigel's site with the video in the rearview mirror. much simpler.
But the bigger problem to that set is that the camera is ment to be installed on the left side corner of bumper (used for parallel parking), so if you try to install it on the right side of the bumper the camera will be pointing up instead of down(not to mention the image displayed will be upside down). And I'm not sure if that camera will actually show how close the front lower part of your bumper to the curb. unless you take apart the camera and enclosure unit and mount just the camera else where.
#22
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I'm sure that one also involves taking dash apart and doing some wiring work, since our cars has different wiring harness than the Japanese cars it will not be plug and play.
But the bigger problem to that set is that the camera is ment to be installed on the left side corner of bumper (used for parallel parking), so if you try to install it on the right side of the bumper the camera will be pointing up instead of down(not to mention the image displayed will be upside down). And I'm not sure if that camera will actually show how close the front lower part of your bumper to the curb. unless you take apart the camera and enclosure unit and mount just the camera else where.
But the bigger problem to that set is that the camera is ment to be installed on the left side corner of bumper (used for parallel parking), so if you try to install it on the right side of the bumper the camera will be pointing up instead of down(not to mention the image displayed will be upside down). And I'm not sure if that camera will actually show how close the front lower part of your bumper to the curb. unless you take apart the camera and enclosure unit and mount just the camera else where.
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no installation instructions yet. I'm more comfortable with this purchase. hardwiring into the mirror harness isn't difficult. hardwiring through the firewall and the engine bay is. those levels of difficulty are for me, you may have a completely different level of difficulty with regard to things like these. I'm not ready to make the beatsonic jump yet.
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no installation instructions yet. I'm more comfortable with this purchase. hardwiring into the mirror harness isn't difficult. hardwiring through the firewall and the engine bay is. those levels of difficulty are for me, you may have a completely different level of difficulty with regard to things like these. I'm not ready to make the beatsonic jump yet.
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For that price, the mirror better come with both...and a butler to clean the lens of the camera...daily!
From the website pic it looks like the dimmer is still there...but no signs of the Homelink anywhere.
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for the extra $200+ you could have had someone installed the bea-tsonic one also
but if you can manage to get it to work, you'll be the only one in north america with that option
but if you can manage to get it to work, you'll be the only one in north america with that option
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