This Backup Camera Will Save Your Life
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Date: 2019-05-28
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Comments and reviews: 9
Simon Greenidge
I can also recommend Following your vid - I bought this from Amazon UK just before Xmas for 50 and fitted it to my wifes 2008 Nissan Note hatchback. I decided not to power it through the reversing lights, because they are fitted to the main body of the car while the licence plate is low on the hatchback door; it would have been a pain to figure out how to run wire from the hinged hatch door and then into the main body of the car and then the light cluster. Instead I took the power from the rear-screen demister element. She just has to hit the demist button to power it up. Also in the UK our plates are plastic and fixed to the car either using 3M tape or bolted halfway down the plate (not suitable for the cameras mounting bracket. Her plate used the two-sided tape method so I was able to drill two new mounting holes near the top (like a US plate. Happy wife can now see what shes reversing into; )
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I can also recommend Following your vid - I bought this from Amazon UK just before Xmas for 50 and fitted it to my wifes 2008 Nissan Note hatchback. I decided not to power it through the reversing lights, because they are fitted to the main body of the car while the licence plate is low on the hatchback door; it would have been a pain to figure out how to run wire from the hinged hatch door and then into the main body of the car and then the light cluster. Instead I took the power from the rear-screen demister element. She just has to hit the demist button to power it up. Also in the UK our plates are plastic and fixed to the car either using 3M tape or bolted halfway down the plate (not suitable for the cameras mounting bracket. Her plate used the two-sided tape method so I was able to drill two new mounting holes near the top (like a US plate. Happy wife can now see what shes reversing into; )
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drwisdom1
I dont buy the need for a backup camera even though it is a handy feature on my newer car. A couple years after I got my drivers license I realized it is so much easier to back into parking spaces between non-moving vehicles than backing out blind into moving traffic. That was before SUVs and minivans which made the backing out blind problem even worse. So I have always backed in to parking spaces since around 1975. You can navigate it easily, without a backup camera, once you get used to doing it. If you have to back up when you get there or when you leave, do it when you get there because it is safer.
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I dont buy the need for a backup camera even though it is a handy feature on my newer car. A couple years after I got my drivers license I realized it is so much easier to back into parking spaces between non-moving vehicles than backing out blind into moving traffic. That was before SUVs and minivans which made the backing out blind problem even worse. So I have always backed in to parking spaces since around 1975. You can navigate it easily, without a backup camera, once you get used to doing it. If you have to back up when you get there or when you leave, do it when you get there because it is safer.
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Harry Roger
This wireless system is not much easier than running wires. Actually running wires from the back to the front under the roof liner is one of the fastest and easiest steps. You can simply push it under with a blunt tool like a smooth handled spoon. The real work is: 1) drilling the hole to pass the wires from camera to inside car. 2) Running the wires around window frame and umbilical tube. 3) Running wires to backup light. You have to do this for either types of camera anyway so its better to save money and have more choices by going for a wired system.
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This wireless system is not much easier than running wires. Actually running wires from the back to the front under the roof liner is one of the fastest and easiest steps. You can simply push it under with a blunt tool like a smooth handled spoon. The real work is: 1) drilling the hole to pass the wires from camera to inside car. 2) Running the wires around window frame and umbilical tube. 3) Running wires to backup light. You have to do this for either types of camera anyway so its better to save money and have more choices by going for a wired system.
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Hercule Holmes
Ive read some favourable reviews about the Boscam, but Im still nervous of touching the wiring in a modern car; I keep hearing warnings that if I cut into any wire, the whole damned wiring loom would have to be replaced. Scary. From what I can gather, the Boscam does not suffer badly from interference, but it is still a wireless camera which means a degree of time lag and a poor picture quality. Compared to a proper wired system, its garbage, but its relatively quick and easy to fit. A wired system is not.
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Ive read some favourable reviews about the Boscam, but Im still nervous of touching the wiring in a modern car; I keep hearing warnings that if I cut into any wire, the whole damned wiring loom would have to be replaced. Scary. From what I can gather, the Boscam does not suffer badly from interference, but it is still a wireless camera which means a degree of time lag and a poor picture quality. Compared to a proper wired system, its garbage, but its relatively quick and easy to fit. A wired system is not.
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Waterline Tech
Scotty watch your videos everyday when I get home from work your videos help me confirm all the things I learned about for Chevys and Chryslers and Kia been a tow truck driver for 15 years I always think something was wrong with those cars thank you for reminded me I could really use a backup camera oh yeah just because Im a tow truck driver automatically people think about mechanic had to tell him Im not thats why I drive a tow truck
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Scotty watch your videos everyday when I get home from work your videos help me confirm all the things I learned about for Chevys and Chryslers and Kia been a tow truck driver for 15 years I always think something was wrong with those cars thank you for reminded me I could really use a backup camera oh yeah just because Im a tow truck driver automatically people think about mechanic had to tell him Im not thats why I drive a tow truck
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Connor Pennington
Scotty, backup cameras are great but I would never recommend a wireless one. Most of the time (not saying every time because I havent seen every backup cam ever) wireless cameras will start to have awful issues with transmitting the image. Power and everything is literally the same amount of work and performs a lot better. But I guess thats why you pay a guy like me to take care of it
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Scotty, backup cameras are great but I would never recommend a wireless one. Most of the time (not saying every time because I havent seen every backup cam ever) wireless cameras will start to have awful issues with transmitting the image. Power and everything is literally the same amount of work and performs a lot better. But I guess thats why you pay a guy like me to take care of it
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Zeek M
No Scotty, The reason is we live in a time where everything is wireless and EMF exposure is causing rising cancer rates. After watching about 10 of your videos its clear youre a lazy American who likes to take short cuts. This time your short cut is a danger to the public. You have to be stopped this time.
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No Scotty, The reason is we live in a time where everything is wireless and EMF exposure is causing rising cancer rates. After watching about 10 of your videos its clear youre a lazy American who likes to take short cuts. This time your short cut is a danger to the public. You have to be stopped this time.
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Smartphone Handy Man
Not sure how many other people thought of this, but for both my cars, I simply bought wire extensions designed for the sockets on both cars and spliced everything to the extenders before attaching them to the OE sockets (with the bulbs on the other end, of course)
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Not sure how many other people thought of this, but for both my cars, I simply bought wire extensions designed for the sockets on both cars and spliced everything to the extenders before attaching them to the OE sockets (with the bulbs on the other end, of course)
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postalinVT
I just bought a back-up system at Costco for 125. 00 that doesnt require ANY extras. The camera is a solar powered license plate frame and it broadcasts to the monitor right from the frame. Monitor plugs into cig lighter just like this one.
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I just bought a back-up system at Costco for 125. 00 that doesnt require ANY extras. The camera is a solar powered license plate frame and it broadcasts to the monitor right from the frame. Monitor plugs into cig lighter just like this one.
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