Fitting reversing cameras

[MaGoos]

Hello can anyone help please?
Have just purchased our first MH. A 2006 fiat Adria.
I have purchased wired dual cameras and would like to install myself.
Any advise please as I am a newbie?
Am I better off drilling above the rear brake light and route the cables through the cupboards or does anyone know of a better way?
Many thanks in advance
Nic

 

[Mikeco]

You will need to end up near the dashboard somewhere depending upon where you are putting the monitor.
If you have overhead cupboards that extent over the cab then go straight through the back wall and through all the cupboards then drop down and put the monitor where the rear view mirror normally sits.
If you are putting the monitor lower down on the dashboard then drop the cable down through a wardrobe then through the floor, you can then bring the cable up through where the battery is at the front of the van.

 

[Carolyn and Kev]

Kev fitted ours . He took the cables from the Monitor by the dash and dropped them under the truck and followed the wiring loom. (Sounds like I know what I am on about ) Anyway..he cable tied the wiring loom supplied to the one on the bottom of the truck and bought it up to the new Twin cameras on the rear above the Spare wheel carrier on ours. Looked the part too I may add! I don't always agree with him!! Bless him. I can tell you it works really well as it does both Reversing and The rear view on the "Toad" when we travel

Kev says its easy!

Love him ..Carolyn

 

[MaGoos]

Thanks Mikeco for your advise.
Any advise on drilling the holes from outside please? Anything special I need? Mastic, grommets etc

 

[MaGoos]

Thanks Kev and Carolyn you make it sound so easy. Have been scratching my head all day. Am so nervous of drilling the holes for the cables.

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[Mikeco]

Thanks Mikeco for your advise.
Any advise on drilling the holes from outside please? Anything special I need? Mastic, grommets etc

If you drill the hole directly behind the camera I would use plenty of sealant such as Sika 512 or similar, a grommet might be okay for the outer skin but for me just plenty of sealant.

 

[MaGoos]

Mikeco thank you. Will get some Sika 512 and cross my fingers.

 

[Carolyn and Kev]

Mikeco is spot on there..Sikaflex 512 seals anything!

Carolyn

 

[Mikeco]

My Peugeot Boxer has a shelf above the cab so I put my monitor where the rear view mirror normally is, the attached picture just about shows it coming down from above. Incidentally I wired mine up to the leisure battery so I have it on all the time and it works just like a rear view mirror.

 

[Landy Andy]

A photo of your rear would help.
I fitted my reverse camera beneath the middle brake light, wires into the above bed storage units, where I then run the cable too the front of the vehicle.
I also purchase the cover for the camera, which is sealed to the body, so I’ve two layers of sealer for water to get passed.

Before you drill “THE” hole, drill all the any through with a very very thin drill bit, so you can see where you are going to be on both sides. Adjust as required, the drill “the” hole by 50% through from inside, then the final 50% from the other side and that will give you a nice hole with no breakout.

Mine.

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[Jev88]

You can sneak under cupboards quite tidily sometimes using conduit. Also under passenger door step.

 

[Burgo]

A photo of your rear would help

Fnar, Fnar...

 

[Pilote87]

Good luck with the installation.

I had just one concern when I installed my double camera system - the size of the hole necessary for the camera cables and their jack-plugs to pass through. However, following the drilling of a pilot hole through the double skin, I progressively increased the drill size until I could just wriggle the plugs through, one at a time. This got me through to an over-bed locker and I used the quarter-round trunking already installed to get the cables round as far as the wardrobe. Unfortunately, I couldn't feed anything though right to the cab at the same level (there was no access from the front locker forward) so dropped the cables down an outer corner of the wardrobe, where there was already trunking for the solar panel cables, then below the bed and along the coving containing the hot air ducting as far as the front of the accommodation area.

The only new trunking I had to install was around the "join" to the chassis cab. From there I took the cables under the step liner, as shown in Jev88 last photo. From there it is an easy job to feed up behind the trim around the bottom of the door opening to enable access to the dash area.

My monitor is mounted on the flip-up board in the centre of the dash

I hope this is of some help

J

 

[TheBig1]

why white trunking? there is brown or woodgrain available that would look OEM

 

[Jev88]

why white trunking? there is brown or woodgrain available that would look OEM

If you saw it from normal eye level the white blends into the background better. Doesn't look like that in photos purposely lined up for showing where to route things. Point taken on colour though.

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