Reverse camera novel installation

[Zakbelle]

Hello, thought if posted this but maybe not. I bought an xtrons reverse camera from eBay hoping to follow Sanjs instruction but have found the wiring to be different. Can anyone take a lol at this wiring instruction and relate it to the x5 and Sanjs installation diagram? This camera has an extra wire which I'm not sure what to do with



Cheers

Craig


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[Horizon]

I bought a reverse camera for my Golf, it came with a red wire moulded into the video cable ( the one with the the yellow RCD ends on it.
On a typical aftermarket set up, the head unit has a wire that sends a sinal to the camera when the canbus tell the headunit that reverse gear is selected. This wire is used to transmit that sinal to tHe camera instead of a sinal being taken from the reverse lights via a relay.
On the X5 you use a signal from the reverse lights to power the camera, so this wire should be obsolete I guess.
I used it on the golf but the canbus wasn't happy, so I picked up a feed via the relay from the reverse lights which in turn switched a permanent feed from the boots cig lighter to power the camera, this then got shut of any interference that the canbus was creating.
Not that difficult once you have run the wires in, that's the hardest bit.

[cooa99]

How did the installation go?

I was thinking of doing the same

Cheers

[Zakbelle]

Well don't use this camera, I've had all sorts of issues with it, basically it didn't like the wired to be cut for installation which is fine if yr plugging an rca plug into the back of a compatible head unit but no good for e53 x5. There are others without LED which would be fine. Finding the cables is pretty straight forward just get some pins with fly wires from bmw parts to make rings easy for you


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[cooa99]

Thanks for the info.

I dont understand what you mean by the led?

[Zakbelle]

cooa99, the camera had 4xLED lights built in to the camera housing