On my Avant4, I didn't need to wire the reverse lights to trigger the backup camera. I believe that the adapter unit was able to decode the CAN message for reverse.

Good to know! Thanks!

Good video, I really wish I didnt have to gut the interior :( (due to navigation)

Well wonderful. I'd say running it was "wasted time" on a new install then. On the truck I was working on I had already provisioned the PDC trigger relay circuit on it so the wiring was already in place to utilize the pink trigger wire. :dunno:

Thanks. And sorry. It does kind of suck, but with a few beers (or rum/diet & wacky tabacky in my case... hence the horse voice toward the later half of the video) the time flies. I look at it as a chance to clean in places you'd never be able to. :D Got to find that silver lining right?

Only time i'd think about doing this is if I gut the interior and dye the creme beige seats to cinnamon :driver: then install the avin 4 :rofl:

Just amazing everything has to come out just to plug it into the back

Mmmmmm cinnamon interior. :drool:

You can do it without interior removal. They give you enough harness to tuck everything along the driver's or passenger's side kick panels and up behind the dash. I think bcredliner did his that way. I'm just anal retentive when it comes to my wiring paths.

Actually, here is a video showing someone doing just that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIEKdYtIaWE

Thats for the other video as well. Still looks like a major pain :rofl:

Whatever you do, please do not do what the second video does with cutting the harness in half. This guy is a complete hack. 12 cheap butt splices is always the way to properly modify your harness. :loco:

:rofl: X2!!! I didn't watch the video all the way through yet. I just ASSUMED he would solder the wires back together. And we all know what they say when you assume something. ;)

Guys:

Sorry for the ask- what is the dash cam you guys have been looking at? I have looked and looked and looked. :rolleyes: