taram
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Since I have installed the BOLT hood lock, the Zautomotive camera wasn't an option for me. I also didn't like the price, especially after shipping&taxes here in EU... So I've bought a simple 480p rear/front camera (be careful - most of the cameras sold are REAR VIEW ONLY, which means you get a mirrored image. you'd definitely want to have the one that is capable for the front view as well, which is usually gained by cutting a special cable). Another argument for this cheap camera is that the stock head unit doesn't support HD input signal for the CARGO camera, so those 12 euro were well spent ))). The main challenging and time delaying issue was the RCA-Video cable with 2 pins on the other end that could be inserted into the plastic harness together with the other. Zautomotive has such a cable for sale, but again its final cost would have gone up to around 70 EUR after shipping&taxes, that sounds a bit crazy compared to 12 EUR camera... What I did - I tried to search for the pins that could work for me, and the best match I could get were the pins from old computer cooler. I welded them to the 25 cm cut piece of the video cable, and had to use some thin wooden sticks (matches, actually) to secure them in the harness - they were a bit loose in it, and I didn't want to remove the head unit every time the contact could be lost. I will not post photos of removed head unit and etc. - there's nothing special in it, many people have done this while removing the dash panels. Of course, the cargo camera input was activated with TazerJL.
Here are some photos of the camera installed:
Here are some photos of the camera installed:
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