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09-19-2015 12:14 AM |
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Originally Posted by iJeff
(Post 2392976)
Just picked up the 2016 Scion FR-S but noticed the backup camera is pointed low without much of a field of view. There doesn't seem to be any guidelines either, and I can't find a way to turn them on.
The American Scion website seems to depict the camera with guidelines; am I missing something?
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In the picture iJeff found on the US Scion web site, I'm guessing those lines are being generated by the camera, not the HU. You could verify that by temporarily connecting the camera to an external video monitor, or connecting an alternate video signal into the OEM HU. Or even simply unplugging the camera harness after the HU had gotten past the "boot-up camera detection" phase.
The OEM camera's angle appears to give a view looking out fairly level with respect to the ground. Angling it up to show less bumper would just get you more sky, and not really be very helpful, IMHO (unless you were worried about backing under a low overhang). Although, does that picture show a true-life image, or is it something their art department Photoshopped together?
The real problem is that the camera is mounted too low and/or too deep into the trunk relative to the bumper for the image that it produces. Yet it looks like they've placed it at the same location as on most other recent Subarus I've seen.
On the previous years FR-S BeSpoke HUs (as well as the Toyota TAS300 HU), you enter the service menus by holding either the "Media" or "Setup" button (accesses two different menus) and turn the parking lights switch on and off 3 times.
Try that on yours. I'm sure people would love to see pictures of the various menus/screens. |
