Partly for the sheer hell of it but with a very practical bonus I was considering putting a reverse camera on the rear of my car with a small lcd screen in the front. Completely happy to do the wiring and installation myself.
The kit to do it is suprisingly cheap even to the extent I may just put a second camera on the rear of the 'van as a lot of the monitors have more than one input channel.
I've seen a few of these set ups on motor homes and I reckon they must be good news.
Does anyone have any experience of them? any does , donts , good uns or bad uns?
Got one on me car , make sure you can see the towball from where you are going to mount the camera ( bumpers are sometimes in the way ) , the cheap ones on ebay have very limited wiring , the one i bought had the wrong connectors , no wiring instructions and one cable was too short . Makes hitching up a piece of cake , no more arguing with my wife . Don't just rely on the camera when reversing , be aware of what's around / behind you.
I was going to just fit the "beepers" had them on a couple of hire cars and loved them but I realised that ebay sellers could supply more for a little bit less!
Theres loads of spots on the back of my car to put the camera.
Which "type" did you go for? are they still listing them?
They aren't listing the one i bought , but here's the moniter Click_here and the camera looks like this Click_here but without the leds . Here's a kit that's going cheap at the mo Complete weather it's any good i don't know .
I have one and it is pretty good. I decided to change my car radio for one that I could have hands free bluetooth together with an MP3 player. In the end I got a 7" single DIN motorised touch screen radio with TV built in and a DVD player. Cost £150. It was possible to link a reversing camera into this, but I rewired it slightly so that it could be on all the time if necessary. The colour camera cost £12.
Our van is quite low to the ground, and by fitting the camera under the bumper, I can not only see obstacles behind the car, but also under the caravan when towing. This was really useful when going on the ferry to France. I can also see the towbar itself so aiding hitching up, though this is not a real problem with the motor mover.
My advice would be that the limiting factor will be the small screen. To demonstrate this, use an ordinary camera and take a picture behind the car, then print it out in reduced size and see what it looks like in the car where you would want to position the screen.
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Topic: Reversing camera
TBH I'm not sure where I'd fasten the screen in the car!!!!
