Rear View Camera Install (2 different methods) Write up.

[hmr1979]

I figured I will create a new thread for this to make it easier for people to search for it instead of it being inside the double din thread I created a couple of days ago. They are really two different things but related.

This is a short write up for installing a backup camera, or often referred to as rear-view camera. I will put two different methods. I am sure there are plenty more and I invite members to post on here different methods that I may not have thought of. These two are just the options that I have tried and have the cameras for. I also think these options are pretty clean and doesn't really stick out too much. This is a very easy mod that anyone can do with no special tools needed. Apart from your monitor, this project is under $20.

What you will need:
1. A monitor that will accept your car rear view camera - Most double dins now adays have video inputs and or "rear cam" inputs. Some camera packages off ebay come with screens just for the camera so you don't have to necessarily buy an entire new double din if you want to keep your existing stock radio but simply had a rear view camera.
2. Rear view camera - Most with come with everything you need (hole saw bit, camera, power cable and video rca cable of usually 5 Meters long. Depending on the camera, some will come with a video cable that is equipped with a thin wire integrated in it called "cam detect." This is used to detect that your car is in reverse and the camera will appear automatically on your double din without having to change modes. On mine, it mutes the radio and overrides everything and the camera is on the screen when in reverse.
3. Panel remover - plastic ones to fish the video rca cable wire along the running board.
4. 1/4 ratchet, extension preferably - this is used to take out the key hole tumbler in trunk (method 2)
5. Solder or electric tape or butt plugs to connect wires.
6. (Optional) If you want your camera to constantly stay powered on, you could get a cigarette light kit which will have a splice for + and - / simply plug this in the trunk instead of taping into your back up light bulb- Not all Sonatas in our generations have these trunk cigarette lighters? I am not certain - Mine has one.
7. Method 2 - 1 inch hole button filler from Lowes (a bag of two that costs $1.50)
8) Method 2 - Power drill

Step 1: Running RCA video out wire to trunk (Both methods will use this same wiring for RCA out)

I am doing this from the passenger side, you could do it from the driver's side. I just did it from the passenger side because I already had the GPS wire running on the panel so it was saving time.

A) Fairly easy step; you run the wire to your double din through the panel adjacent to the glove compartment - Squeeze the edges and pull it open.


Fish the wire under the panel and follow the oem wiring harness already there



C) Pry open the panel on the running board. You will see a thick taped up wiring harness, bundle the video cable with this harness

D) Then I simply squeezed the wire underneath the panel along B pillar. I continued to do this all the way to the back seat. The only reason why I opened the front one is to make the clean drop from the top of glove box. There is plenty of room to squeeze under the trims without prying it. Use plastic trim remover kit and make sure not to scratch open your cable when you push it in.




E) Flip down the back seat and put wire through here to reach inside the trunk.



F) Follow the small black edge of the trunk access. It has a ledge; the wire fits in there

G) Put wire behind the trunk liner towards the top. I am running it the left hand side because we are running the it inside the rubber hose with the existing wire harness by trunk strut.


This video of a member on here (Fedge) shows this the easiest. Different mod, but the wire will go here the exact same way.
http://static.photobucket.com/player...228_072116.mp4
Fast forward to 0:33 and follow the wiring in this same manner to hide it.

H) Open your trunk liner to have access to "back up light bulb" and to run and hide wires


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Method I - Camera in the middle of trunk license plate lighting assemblies
* Use double side tape or drill two holes to secure camera with screws
* Push pin with trim remover to take out license plate bulb box.


* Run wire camera power/video combo cable (you should drop it and fish it out by the emergency trunk opener/latch)


* Locate back up bulb - Orange is positive, black is negative. Splice here and attach provided camera power adapter with negative and positive at the back up bulb wires.

* Connect Video male (wire from double din unit) to Video female
* If cable has camera detect, attach it to the same positive cable on back up light bulb wire
Here is what this type of camera looks like after it is done.


Method 2 - Trunk Key Hole Camera
* Get any button camera with locking pins less than 1 inch in diameter (most are less than 1 inch on ebay)

* Use provided hole saw drill bit provided with camera and drill into the 1 inch plastic hole cap. You have to get it in the middle as much as possible. The cap luckily has drawing on it which indicates the middle spot. I started the pin point with a small drill bit first, then you can use the hole saw provided.


* Place the camera into the cap and it should lock into place


* Take out trunk key tumbler - Use 1/4 rachet with extension with 10 mm socket



* Take out the thin latch that is attached to the yellow plastic piece. You just turn and pull it out
* You can leave the tumbler if you find a place to secure it without rattling. You can cut off the wire on it too if you want to permanently take it off

* Place wire from outside of trunk into the tumbler hole. The cap should now just fit in the 1 key hole.


It should lock into place, but you may pop it back out. It's not a permanent mod which is good. It's in there solid and tight though. I have ran multiple car wash sprays on it, it doesn't budge.



*Now simply connect video power female to the male and connect the RCA video cable you ran earlier into the female.

Here is a pic of both camera installed


I am sure there are about 50 ways to place the camera. The key hole to me is one of the cleanest and non-permanent way to install it. I think a silver washed that fits with the camera lip and super glued to it may look even better. Then you can super glue the washer to the trunk. This would be permanent and you could paint the washer any color you wanted. A white or black car would be the best because it would be easy to match the color so all you would see if the actual camera.

[AGW]

Great job with pics & wiring. Keep up the good work!

Cheers!

[hmr1979]

Originally Posted by AGW

Great job with pics & wiring. Keep up the good work!

Cheers!

thank you, sir. i am thinking about doing that Hyundai door projector mod like yours

[Dennis the Mennis]

hmr1979, I have a question for you related to method 2, where you mounted your backup cam in the trunk lock hole. When you removed your tumbler, there was a cable attached to it. I think that cable goes to your trunk release in the door. When you removed your tumbler did you lose your trunk release in the door? NBD since you can still release your trunk with your fob; I was just curious.

Another excellent writeup!

[hmr1979]

Originally Posted by Dennis the Mennis

hmr1979, I have a question for you related to method 2, where you mounted your backup cam in the trunk lock hole. When you removed your tumbler, there was a cable attached to it. I think that cable goes to your trunk release in the door. When you removed your tumbler did you lose your trunk release in the door? NBD since you can still release your trunk with your fob; I was just curious.

Another excellent writeup!

You mean the latch from the inside? I have not tried Good question. I honestly never used the key hole anyways. But for now, I open it with key fob and that still works.

I will try in the morning.

I am assuming that is what you're asking?

[hmr1979]

Oh I think you mean the small latch at the driver's door? By the gas cap button? That still works I believe.

[Dennis the Mennis]

That's it. At first I was thinking it would be a pain to have to open the back seats and crawl into the trunk but then I remembered the fob. I had a fobless Ford Contour and locked the keys in the trunk. The trunk pop on the driver's floor was locked so I tried to remove the back seat with very limited success. I got the locked seatbacks open just enough to put a broomstick into the trunk. The Contour had two seatback releases at either side of the trunk. I drilled a hole in the broomstick and put a wire loop thru the hole then poked it back into the trunk and lassoed one of the release knobs. After i twisted the broomstick it wrapped round the knob. One push and the seatback finally released. I crawled into the (messy) trunk and pushed stuff aside 'till I got to the trunk release lever. Pop. Amazing how cluttered the trunk gets and how stuffy it gets. When I installed the alarm the first accessory I bought was an actuator for the trunk pop; $75 well-spent.

If you think that's complicated you should see what I do with the computer.

[hmr1979]

HAHA The trunk latch still works.
Key fob works too.

[cartuner48]

man i wish i had a key hole on the trunk, i wouldve tackled this project, it just looks clean and factory looking...

[hmr1979]

Originally Posted by cartuner48

man i wish i had a key hole on the trunk, i wouldve tackled this project, it just looks clean and factory looking...

Your sonata does not have a trunk key hole??