Yeah I found it, so if the camera is mounted off center is the display on the screen off? Or does it somehow compensate for its position

When you remove the plastic panel, you'll be able to see the indent when you hold it up to the light. Yes, it's slightly offset, but it's not simmering that will make a difference. Also, the lines are so you can line up your car straight and know how close you are to the rear. They're useless as guides for the width of your car.

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Aznatama did you ever move your camera to the drivers side?

? My car is lhd, camera is mounted on the left, so it's already on the driver side.

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So your saying that with the camera installed on the drivers side. I should not trust the lines because they are not centered to the car

I would never trust the lines unless the camera came with the car (OEM).

I've read somewhere that you can turn the line feature off

It's built into some of the aftermarket cams. I think I read somewhere that you can snip a wire in the cam housing but I haven't tried. I have an aftermarket Android radio that does not add lines.

Little confused on the head unit knows your backing up if you're just plugging in a camera.

There is a wire that tells the radio you're in reverse. This wire also powers the camera.

So, I installed the Toyota FIT camera in my 10 series FR-S this weekend. I have the Bespoke unit with NAV. Everything went pretty smooth. I installed the jumper wire from the reverse signal at the driver's foot-well to pin two on the 28 pin harness. The 16 pin harness that comes with the kit is used for the video signal and ground, as well as the camera power and ground. The kit comes with the 16 pin pass-through harness and already has the video wires connected to pins 8 and 16. However, they suggest that you use a 12 volt source to power the camera. I noticed that the camera had a voltage choke/regulator on the line, and I suspected that it was to reduce the voltage down to 6 volt.
So I tested the camera with a 6 volt source and it worked perfectly. So, I then utilized the 6 volt power and ground on the 16 pin harness (pins 7 and 15). Made the install a lot easier!
The testing was a little tricky since the HU checks for a video signal on startup, and if it doesn't find one, it disables the 6 volt output and the camera function. Once I had everything hooked up, it worked perfectly. I was initially stumped because I new I had a 12 volt signal on the reverse wire trigger, but I couldn't figure out why the head unit wouldn't switch to the camera input when I put the tranny in reverse.


Anyway, I was wondering, for those that have installed cameras..........where did you run your wiring from the rear trim piece through the trunk lid to get down to the factory wiring grommet at the hinge? My 10 series has the trunk badge wiring and the touch-to-open button all running through a separate hole in the trunk lid, and the keyed release has it's own hole on the right. I mounted my camera on the left side to mirror the location of the keyed release on the right.


I ended up using the supplied hole saw to drill a new hole through the trunk lid as well as the hole for the camera location. I couldn't see any other way to run the wiring through the trunk lid.
This then created the problem of how to seal that wiring connection through the new trunk lid hole, and to keep the wires from chafing on the metal. I improvised and found a rubber cap in my pile of left over parts from other projects that was just larger than the hole. ran my wire through the cap, and then pressure-fit the cap in the hole and sealed it up with some silicon adhesive caulk to seal it up.


By the way, it was a SOB to fish all that wiring through the factory rubber grommet near the trunk hinge. There are a couple connectors on the camera harness, including the voltage regulator that are rather large in diameter and they were a tight fit. I used some WD-40 to aid in pulling them through the grommet.


Also, the FIT camera has the Parking Lines and Reverse Image wires labeled near the camera end of the harness. I simply connected the green (parking lines) wires together to disable the parking lines from showing up on your screen.

Cheers to those who have yet to install their cameras. Hopefully this is helpful.

I really wish there were a thorough install video for this. As someone who has never done anything of the sort before, I'm really lost. The instructions that came with my camera are for the Camry.

That would be nice. You just have to do a little research. There are a couple of threads on this forum. This was a good resource for me as well
http://ae64.com/Rear-camera-16p-operation.htm


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http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80555

rydeen mini backup cam


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Thanks for that. I'm still not sure about how to do it though. I can build a PC and repair a smartphone but I can't wrap my head around this. If only the camera I got didn't come with Camry instructions.

This was the best guide which helped me install my camera last weekend: http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...8&postcount=85

I got the harness from autoharness.com in order to get the 12v supply via relay, and ran the RCA/power wire down the driver's side sill all the way back through the trunk passthrough, then through the trunk release grommet.

In my experience the easiest way to do it is to use the ae64.com harnesses. They provide a 16 pin connector for camera and 6V power as well as making an accessory 12V harness that plugs into an unused plug behind the radio ("Option harness"). With those connectors you just plug the camera video to the 16 pin harness, plug power and ground to the option harness, plug the reverse wire into the big harness in the footwell and the other end to the 28 pin harness on the radio and run your wires (in my opinion running the wires was the hardest part).

I used bullet connectors for everything so I didn't permanently modify any wiring (other than the splice for the reverse wire). I also extended all the wires in the main camera harness to be the same length as the power and ground were much shorter than the video signal. Snaked them up the trough under the panels on the driver's side, through the rear seat and around the trunk lid to the cam. Really wasn't that big a deal.

Using the option harness means your camera is on all the time when the accessory is on. Probably not a big deal but mentioning that in case it matters to some.

I hope it worked perfect for you. @2k15BRZ
I will be installing mine today!

any updates? @mixedjuice

sounds like @czechm8 find a easier way to do it but can you explain better...? Cuz i really wanna do this but I have zero knowledge on wires & stuff...

@chaoskaze
yeah i finished my project. the lines turned out pretty good. of course not factory lined up perfectly.
but very useful and still very flush/clean installed.

Post a pic of the cam and actual output of the head unit please :o

coming up! just gotta get this to work on my mobile phone

Here are the 3 pieces that plug and play together.
1. 16 pin harness that plugs into the back of the headunit.
2. male to male video cable with power wires on each end
3. female video input cable attached to a camera with power and ground wires.

remove headunit
unplug factory 16 pin harness
plug in new 16 pin harness
plug original 16 pin harness to the extension of the new 16 pin harness
plug yellow male video input into female input
tap red wire to a 6V+ wire on the factory head unit. (i used the ACC/yellow cable)
run the wires to the back of the car, under all the carpet and trim
plug the other end male video input to the camera output video
grimp the 2 red power cords together
ground the black wire
drill a whole to the back fender where the camera will go.
screw in and adjust
finished

upon starting the car, place in REVERSE, camera should power on once in gear

It's interesting on the camera vertical range, can you see directly behind you? I had to hack mine to be able to see directly behind me. But I do get a bigger picture overall as I no longer have 1/3 of my screen showing the bumper.

The camera actually looks very similar if not externally identical to mine which I got off eBay.

@a_dee
i can see directly behind me, but with an angle. how the camera is angled coming from a straight install it does show the portion of the bumper.
there is a white cord the is the angle/mirror cord that i kept on. (i didnt want to cut it)
but i did cut the green cord that had parking lines in it.

What kind of hack? I am interested to see if this can help my current angle.

I made a shim to change the angle out of rubber (jeweler's bench block), pics attached of before and after.

Looks like i need to fabricate a little more!
awesome solution man @a_dee

how is you build doing? im looking into buying a used (4k miles) perrin performance exhaust. But still cant get myself to buy it coz i am looking for rims and tires more

Hey guys,

I did the install today on my 2014 BRZ ltd and there are two things I think worth mentioning:
1. Power - It is the pin left to the grey line of the original 16 pin when you pulled it out from HU. And I didn't connect the ground but it works fine.

2. Wire from trunk to body - Make sure you use some lubrication there. That will make it much easier

Today I tackled the install of the Toyota/Scion/Subaru FIT integrated Back Up Camera System

I purchased it a couple of days ago on ebay and it conveniently arrived on my day off.

Everything is pretty straightforward as described in this thread.

I found this video to be particularly helpful when it came to wiring it up. Specifically where to get the reverse trigger signal and power for the camera:


EDIT: it was pointed out by @SVXdc that the video contains some incorrect information in regards to grounding the camera. While mine worked fine it was pointed out that the ground needs to be connected to Pin 15 rather than Pin 6 as shown in the video. SVXdx has posted a link to the pin-out diagram in post number #73 just below this one.


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUPGBdxDXaY"]2013 Scion FRS "Fit" Back up camera install - YouTube[/ame]


Works good and the whole install took about an hour.

Error! "Len Solt" (YouTube guy) connected his camera's black ground lead to the HU's parking brake input pin (#6). Doh!

It still works because the camera also gets ground via the RCA plug/jack.

See pin-out of the 16-pin socket and more info here.

If you run the camera's ground lead to the back of the HU, you'll want to use pin #15, which is below the pin you use for camera power (#7). But if your camera's ground lead is short and ends near the camera (as is the case on most eBay cameras), you can just connect the camera's ground lead to a good chassis ground point somewhere near the camera at the back of the car -- no need to extend that to the HU.

Thanks for taking the time to point out my error. I will move that ground wire when I'm in there next time. I'd have never known as the camera works fine.
:thanks:

I have been running my rear view camera for a month or so plus. so far so good!
i could still use a modification to hack the angle a bit, but hey it still gets the job done so im just gonna leave it be.
I could use a camera on my front lip though. jeez this car is low profile

can you remove guidelines???????

As I described in another thread, the camera I installed has two pairs of wires near the camera end of the harness. One pair works as a jumper to enable/disable the guidelines displayed on the screen. The other pair inverts the audio signal 180 to allow upright or upside down mounting of the camera.


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Agreed. Anyone come up with a good solution for a front mount camera?

Now that I know how the triggers work it would be possible to splice a second camera in on a switch, it would take someone smarter than me though to make it happen. The hurdles are that there has to be power to the camera when the car is started or the head unit ignores it, and you would need to still trigger it off pin 2. You,d have to throw a diode to keep it from back feeding into the reverse lights or something.... im just thinking out loud. Easiest solution is to back in to the parking spot...or a urethane lip...;)

this is what i used when i did my front camera.. i hid the trigger button for the front cam in the dummy switch in the shift console as per another DIY. Reverse works as normal, only the front cam need be triggered manually when parking.
Probably one of the most functional and useful of my mods.. No more hitting parking blocks or parking 3ft away from curbs!

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/front...675896600.html