Help me identify these factory reversing camera wires please

[Fu Manchu]

He did mine and didn’t want to use a factory camera. That was years ago. To be fair, he is right, but they do fit well.

If he says it, he’d be quite honest about it. If he says he won’t know because he prefers using after market cameras.

I forgot about him using non factory camera. He does know a tonne about how that stuff ticks so was worth a try for you.

 

[Stuey81]

He did mine and didn’t want to use a factory camera. That was years ago. To be fair, he is right, but they do fit well.

If he says it, he’d be quite honest about it. If he says he won’t know because he prefers using after market cameras.

I forgot about him using non factory camera. He does know a tonne about how that stuff ticks so was worth a try for you.

If i can’t get any joy with someone who knows what these wires are in the next week or so, i’m just gonna try wiring it up with a guess. I feel like the red and white wires might be for bending the reversing lines left and right on the late VE series 2 calais. And as mine is a MY9.5 late series one with non IQ radio box, i’m not going to have that functionality anyway.

I’m gonna try light green - to reverse light
Black - to earth
Pink - to RCA inner (+)
light blue - to RCA outer (-)

and just leave RED and White disconnected.

and see if that works. Trying to find information on this factory camera is like pulling teeth. There’s literally nothing online, and nothing in the manuals i can find.

 

[Stuey81]

Have pretty much given up on this at this point, no one seems to have the answers, so i’ve ordered an aftermarket one off ebay i know will work. I tried to find one with the closest measurements to the factory one, as it’s going to go in the factory location.

When the kit arrives, i will try and see if i can get this factory one to work, but if i can’t, i have a “backup plan”

The 6 meter yellow RCA cable i ordered off ebay had to come from communist china. Ordered around january 1st, and expected delivery was 28th - 1st of february. Checked it again the other night, and it’s now expected 15th of march! what the hell?

This made my mind up for me, ordered the below reversing camera from an aussie seller, and it comes with everything (including the 6meter RCA video cable) should have it here next week. Total cost is like $16

Car Rear View Backup Reversing Reverse Camera 3089 Top-lens super Night Vision | eBay

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[Stuey81]

Ok so was unable to wire this up and get it to work. Tried a heap of combinations, nothing, zip, nada. I ended up ordering an aftermarket one of evilbay, and was able to slot it into the original factory location. It looks factory, has great quality and really good night vision, works like factory when you select reverse and all that, only downside is it comes with its own reversing grid lines, which sucks balls as i now have two sets on the SSV screen when reverse is selected. Pretty pissed about it considering i messaged the seller before i purchased, and he never bothered to reply, but sort of had to go with this one, as most of the others were huge and wouldn't go in the wagons factory location.

Lots of aftermarket cameras come with a wire that is looped you can cut that stops the grid lines for this reason, however this one didnt. Not the end of the world, factory and aftermarket gridlines dont even line up beacuse its a wagon, and wagon grid lines are offset due to camera placement

 

[stick3]

few years ago i brought the garmin reversing camera it links wireless to there gps on the vz instead of spicing into reversing wire the 7 pin towing plug is in the boot i just brought a 7 pin male plug connected two wires to earth and aux and plug it in

 

[Stuey81]

few years ago i brought the garmin reversing camera it links wireless to there gps on the vz instead of spicing into reversing wire the 7 pin towing plug is in the boot i just brought a 7 pin male plug connected two wires to earth and aux and plug it in

Already spliced in off the reverse wire to drivers side tail lamp... no big deal, was an easy job. Just found a thread that tho that explained if my headunit was programmed as a UTE, it would remove the reversing lines (the headunit ones overlayed on the screen) Least then i would only have one set of grid lines.

EDIT: as its a late series one SSV/Calais non IQ stereo, only very late wagons ever came with reversing camera, so having it programmed as a ute or sedan is not an option for me.

 

[Fu Manchu]

Not sure about the lines being set like that. As far as I'm aware, its a feature that is toggled on or off, just as the camera option is, using specialised equipment/software.

 

[Stuey81]

Not sure about the lines being set like that. As far as I'm aware, its a feature that is toggled on or off, just as the camera option is, using specialised equipment/software.

yeah unfortunately on the series one version 9 radio boxes, it was only wagon that came out with reversing camera, and the grid overlay can’t be programmed out.

 

[bb_zetec]

G'Day Stuey,

I have the same as you a MY 9.5 SSV with the V 9.0 Stereo and have also bought a garnish of a later MY with the inbuilt camera. I have not yet fitted it but your experience will come in handy...cheers for your thread.

BTW...do you currently have the reverse park assist feature with the visual display and the sonar at the rear? I have that and i am wondering how that will work with the reverse camera fitted...does it disable the sonar feature?

How did you enable your reverse camera input on the stereo, did you use a plug in box from some third parties to activate it?

Cheers.

 

[Stuey81]

G'Day Stuey,

I have the same as you a MY 9.5 SSV with the V 9.0 Stereo and have also bought a garnish of a later MY with the inbuilt camera. I have not yet fitted it but your experience will come in handy...cheers for your thread.

BTW...do you currently have the reverse park assist feature with the visual display and the sonar at the rear? I have that and i am wondering how that will work with the reverse camera fitted...does it disable the sonar feature?

How did you enable your reverse camera input on the stereo, did you use a plug in box from some third parties to activate it?

Cheers.

Hey mate, yeah I had the reverse sonar screen with the sensors. When you enable the reversing camera in the menu, you lose the graphic obviously, but the sonar still works and beeps as normal, just with the video from the rear camera on the screen instead.

I had my stereo sent away to get vin matched, and he enabled it for me along with VIM (Video in motion).

I also bought a Bluetooth module so i can listen to Spotify from my phone, so that's pretty cool.