How To: Retain Factory/OEM Rear Camera To Aftermarket Radio

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How to hardwire your factory rear camera to an aftermarket radio using a Voltage Reducer.

Hope this video helps you guys! If you have any questions don't hesitate to drop them in the comments below.

We go through the complete steps from removing the radio to hardwiring the camera and testing the circuits/voltages.

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[lyubobg]

Update from me - I managed today to install my camera. The problem was not with the video source in the media, but in a wrong connected cable. Good job @The Fitting Bay !

[leadahwan]

I have been searching for weeks on how to hot wire my lancer camera and you came through for alot of people...you showed us step by step....thanks alot and keep up the good work.

[JustWastedHoursHere]

I'm very surprised, after the many decades of aftermarket stereos being sold, that there isn't an aftermarket/oem plug standard so that you can just remove the old radio and plug everything into the new one, retaining your steering wheel controls, original backup camera and everything else without having to cut and strip wires, look up color codes for the wires for your particular vehicle and so on. Luckily there are companies like Metra that do make some of this kind of stuff to bridge oem plugs with aftermarket stuff.

[CentreVictorious]

Alternative approach: In another related video, they simply probed the radio connector (while connected to the powered-on factory radio) and looked for the wire with the 6 V level (while in reverse), which is only used for camera power, i.e. if it's 6V then it's gotta be camera power. The video signal wire would usually be near the 6V wire. Again, using some kind of video monitor, probe around until the monitor shows the backup camera picture. You could use any old monitor with an RCA video input, and there are also 3.5" TFT monitors on sale in the usual places for $30 or so. Although the front-to-back continuity approach is foolproof and guaranteed to work, the probing-around approach eliminates the pain of removing the back panels. Lastly, probe around for the 12 V level which comes on when in reverse, this will be your trigger signal for the aftermarket radio. To be sure, the continuity approach is guaranteed to work, but it's a little more labour intensive. Thanks mate for your video though, good on ya!

[ggonz]

Thanks for the video. I have been looking for directions to hardwire my OEM reverse camera to my 08 sequoia for an aftermarket stereo. I hope I can figure out the appropriate wires from this video.

[Tino_Moreno]

This is a nice video, I got me an OEM camera that I got included in a trunk that I got for my 08 Lancer, but my car wasn't wired for reverse camera, I was hoping you have a video on how to do it just in the trunk, I could imagine that you would use the reverse light power to power up the camera from there and also add the rca cable to the camera from there since I do have an aftermarket stereo, I don't mind running cables to the front just hoping you have a video like that would be much appreciated. Thanks and sorry if I didn't make any sense
Update 12-1-2021
So Like I said before I installed the Evo X lid with the camera and I was surprised that your method worked, The only difference was that I had to send my own wires from the trunk to the new Stereo I did my wiring the same way you did, I know its not the exact same method but pretty close. Thanks

[Sherwalivlogs]

Hy watched it your videos are amazing am installing headunit to estima 2008 all done but struggling to find the rear camera wires can you help please

[robert-pewi]

I know you have a good reference video. Is it totally necessary to use a voltage reducer . I'm just having problem to link into the back up camera

[sameera]

So my vehcile setup was totally different but got it done with your concepts. Thank you so muhc for this.

[leadahwan]

I just finish my hook up and it works for my lancer gts if it was not for your tutorial video i would be stuck..i appreciate you man 👍👍

[speedpros]

Excellent video and I needed it cause I'm stuck in doing a 2013 370z bose no navigation

[earlskieu]

If the back camera triggering voltage supply connects directly to the oem headunit harness brown wire then why need to add a voltage reducer if it has already 6v supply on it when reverse is triggered.. why not make direct supply connection from the harness wire to rca video input of the new aftermarket HU

[mogannaidoo]

been looking for something like this for ages to do a lancer. However, the lancer wiring codes colors are different. Have you done a lancer

[RL]

great video thanks for explaining the 6v reducer and how i can identify the video and ground wire from the camera. 1 question though how do u get the steering wheel controls to wrk ? how do i knw which wire to connect to key1 and key 2 of the headunit

[SH]

Hi, great video. I’m trying to connect my OEM reversing camera (VW 2014 Scirocco 2.0L TDI, UK) to an aftermarket android head unit with no luck. I bought an A0580 decoder box. It has a yellow rca and three wires, yellow, brown and red. They plug into the head unit but still no video feed. Just wondering if there should be 6volts or 12volts going to the camera? Voltage from the decoder box, brown and yellow wires is 10.5volts so I’m confused. I’m guessing the decoder box just tries to reroute wires rather than change the video standard. I have tried selecting PAL video standard but still no joy. Any ideas appreciated. Should I just dump to decoder box and try to hardwire the camera to the head unit? I’m not sure what I’m trying to achieve is to change OEM camera standard, whatever that is, to RCA or reroute the wiring, or both? Thanks

[ivortraynor]

Hey mate. Thank you for the info.
I’m trying to install an after market head unit to a 2017 Hyundai i30
I have found the reverse wire from the head unit and the original car wiring and the works but I’m getting no video from the camera.
The original wiring harness had 4 wires for the camera it has video and ground and power and ground .
I have connected the male RCA I bought to the video and ground but where do I wire the other video power and ground ?

[harundoe]

Excellent job
I found a camera original Toyota Yaris but there colour is red, black, white and brown, could you please tell me which colour I will be used for signal + -. I am using same display but camera power coming from power Bank 5v.
Thanks

[ThePhilbox]

Does the headunit know to show the reverse camera because the camera gets power ad triggers it, or it it is triggered by the actual 12V reverse circuit?

[mugumeanthony]

It has really been of help thanks bro and keep it up.

[simonrutherford]

I’m having to do this on a LWB Mercedes sprinter. I can’t get access to the camera wires at the back of the van as I have converted it to a Motorhome and it has a ceiling that has the wires behind it.
I think all I can do is check the wires at the front by the new head unit?
I’m a bit confused about “shield “ I assume that is ground or negative?
Any help you can give would Best regards, appreciated.