or from Honda. The one on my Ody works great anytime of the day.

So the consensus is it should work at night as well?

This is the first car I've driven with a backup camera and the screen is pitch black at night time.

I'll have to get the dealer to check it out.

A little off topic, but I just noticed the x3's have an oem rear view camera kit for x3's with nav...anyone with an x5 know how long that install might have been? I am figuring it cant be too different.

THanks!

I am interested as well. pics please.

This is the picture quality of my MY08 by night, rear lights and brakes on

The taken picture is better than reality, the backup camera picture is fuzzy as hell...

I turned of the obstacle markings, that improved quality a little.

No comments by BMW so far... so could you please give us the information about the exchanged cameras (type, P/N etc.)

So long

Christian

Here is a tought (maybe some else has tried it!)
Is the Camera infra red sensitive?

You could check this out by pressing a TV remote control and see it flashing in the in car screen if it is IR sensitive.

If it is IR sensitive a small LED IR lamp could be wired in under the rear bumper to come on at night time,

what do the green lines mean vs. the red ones? i know the green ones are probably the safer location and red is 'on the edge'.... but i'm wondering how people really 'use' them.

Just for the comparison, I am going to post some pics tonight to show how the backup camera's image looks like on a Honda.

According to BMW's ETK there is a newer backup camera as of 3/2007. SI believe the E70's started being built 2.2006 so I suppose if you have one older than DOP 3/2007 you might want to have it changed.

Camera Quality
 

I just picked up my 2008 X5 last night. It finished production last week. I camera quality is exactly as bad as his photos... nothings been changed on the assembly line as of Nov 2008.

The camera is pretty much trash...

Mike