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Rear backup camera video issues

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#1 ·
Hey all- I wanted to know if anyone has had this issue, heard of it, and if there was a solution to it...

Every once in a while I start the car and put it into reverse. The rear camera will attempt to start and its a black screen with white snow-ishh flickering display. It will just be a black flickering screen until it cuts out to blue and wont display the rear cam.

It will do this a few times going back and forth from park to reverse and then it randomly decide to work and wont do it again for a bit of time. I managed to get some pics the second time it did it. I tried to subsequently reproduce it a third time while taking video recording on my phone but the **** thing of course worked the third time. :mad::mad:

What gives?

 
#7 ·
I've also seen the problem. It usually happens if I start the car and quickly put it into reverse before the car has completely "booted up". Shifting into forward usually corrects it, if not, shutting down and starting back up fixes it.

Just waiting a few seconds longer before shifting into reverse seems to prevent it.
 
#12 ·
Mine has being doing the same thing, since I have had the car, 2 years to the day. The dealership that I have been going to since I have been asked not to go go back where I bought it, cannot believe what I have going through and thought I was joking when I sent pictures of errors on the nav screen, then the rear camera issues usually start after that.
I have also noticed that I can sometimes see the rear camera problem, when the shifter is moved sideways a bit.
 
#19 ·
I went in for my oil change today and told them to check on the camera. They said that they couldn't reproduce the problem but I just happened to have the video that I took earlier this week and showed it to the Service Technician. He took it back to the technician working on the car and they ordered a new camera for me today. Will get it installed on the 9th!

I'm up over 73k on my car so I'm out of warranty but I did sign up for the extended warranty when I bought the car. Normal cost on this would be around $450 so about half of what I paid for the warranty and I still have 27k left to go.

Chuck
 
#20 ·
I had similar intermittent camera problem after it got worse I decided to get fix. I took picture on way to dealer to show the problem this made no difference since it did not prove it came from my car. The service manager said they had to duplicate the problem before they could fix since it could be caused by wiring, radio or camera. I assume it would not happen at the dealer and made myself a pain while I waited to see if they could duplicate. After an hour of waiting I check to see the status and the manger said they were replacing the camera. A week later and the camera has worked perfectly.
 
#26 ·
The camera is installed with absolutely no protection at all. There is no gasket between the body of the car and the body of the camera to stop salt spray and water from wicking around the camera and working its way into the workings of the camera itself which begins to affect the electronics in random ways as you can see by the forums. The body of the camera housing is unprotected aluminum and as it corrodes, the conductive aluminum oxide begins to cover the electronic boards and short out traces in a random fashion. I love my three hyundai's but the camera design that is installed on my 2013 limited elantra is very poor. In Canada the camera is $616 from the dealer! A 15 cent gasket would have solved this problem. I was able to dismantle my camera and clean the boards to get the camera working again
 

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#27 ·
rear camera issues

I too was experiencing this problem. Someone on one of the treads here on the Hyundai Forum said that they just slammed their trunk lid harder than normal and it started working again. Some one else said that the camera body is corroding and it could be cleaned off. I think that is why the trunk slamming might work, it's knocking off some of that corrosion. I figured what have I got to loose, I would rather try something FREE, rather than having to pay for a new camera. Guess what, IT WORKED. This was definitely worth trying. My camera has been working ever since. Thanks Hyundai Forum.
 
#29 ·
After 6month with a bluescreen , im changing the rear camera buy a cheap 8$us camera on ''aliexpress'' , it's a rca wire but im cut the wire to fit the same color. The quality as similar ( maybe little cheap than Oem but its not signifiant ) the only thing is i have the oem lign of parking and a fix lign of parking on the camera too. 8$us and 30min to fit on the car. not bad!! ( note : im making a rca exit on the oem wire of the oem camera for the new rca aftermarket so all is reversible if i want.