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Originally Posted by Josh B
Has anyone made this into a full time rear view camera without any guide lines?
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Short answer: Nobody has yet figured out how to turn off the HU's built-in parking guide lines.
Tricking the FT nav HU into displaying the camera image while not in reverse would be easy -- just cut the reverse wire (or extract factory wire and replace with a new pin/wire), and use a switch to connect +12V to the HU's reverse gear input.
Removing the HU's built-in guide lines is the catch. Unless there's a secret dealer menu option that we don't know about, there may not be any solution for this.
A quicker solution would be to connect your camera to the unused video portion of the aux A/V input. You'll need to do the parking brake hack (and I think the VSS hack, also) to allow viewing that video while driving. You would have to switch to your aux input to see it (so you'd no longer be able to listen to your radio, disc, USB, iPod, etc. during that time).
Anyone who wants to pursue the aux video input: Start a new thread and I'll be happy to reply there with more details.