I wanted to thank Violent B for helping me out with this problem. He could have easily told me I was an idiot and stopped replying to my IMs yet he pressed forward and figured out my problem. Im greatful.

Def a great scionlife member

 

so did it work?

 

just read my PM. glad it worked out in the end. I'm just out there to help anyone who needs help, so they can enjoy their Scion as much as I do.

 

This also worked for me. It was pretty easy. I jsut followed what you said and it works fine.

 

can I(we) see this coveted PM'ed data
i'm all tingly cause i have all my parts for this weekend
and i really want to do this

 

the diagram above is correct. the problem was the connector Icon took off his neon lights and pluged into the camera was wired backwards. so he had everything correct except that plug. a simple mistake, but sometimes those take longer to figure out.

crisis averted! now on to the next one...

 

The head unit I have will automatically switch to the camera when the car is in reverse. I was working on hooking it up today but didn't see anyplace obvious to hookup the wire. Anyone know where to hook it up?

 

which wire are you talking about?

 

thank you!
will post pics when(if) done

 

the camera i bought only has one wire on the power side and i hooked it up with the relay and all i get is white staticy noise

what am i doing wrong?

 

was there a connector on the end, kinda looked like a rca but it isn't? if you cut that connector off, strip back the outside covering, you will have many strands of wire and another protected wire in the center. strip back the center protective covering and that is your (+) wire. the outter strands are your (-) wire.

now use the diagram above and you should be golden.

 

Does anyone know if the clip-on-the-rear-view-mirror setups work very well?

 

I have my camera for the rear now, but I need to hook it into the reverse light circuit. Where is a good place to tie into the circuit?

 

The reverse wire is red/black by the fuse box, but you can also use the positive wire from the reverse light bulb wire.

 

Not to bring up old subjects,But I Actually found this in a search I did for me... LOL ...Anywho I have been looking for a camera and now there are so many out there I am not sure on (Ebay) what one to get ? Please help.......

Thanks Eddie

 

This is the exact one that I bought. It works great.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/REARV...QQcmdZViewItem

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/SUPERWIDE-ANGLE-...QQcmdZViewItem

this is like the one I got off ebay. it's a night vision camera so you can see out about 10-15 feet with no light. the one thing about the night vision cameras is that they are bigger then the wiper hole, so you will have to make the wiper hole bigger. but I will tell you the night vision is well worth the extra work.

 

i did mine a while back/// it took me 30 mins to install the camera, hook it up to my double DIN Kenwood and wrap the back hatch with eDead.

 

agreed mine is night vision and it rocks

 

can someone get a a closer pic of what the cameras look like in the hatch?