EvansJD2112 Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Finally got round to fitting my reversing camera. Pulling the cables through was quite easy thanks to the guides on here. Being lazy, I only removed the one piece of trim at the back of the boot. I know from the guides that the reverse power cable is green with silver trim and notice in the mass of cables right in the middle of the boot (above the rubber grommet you pull the cables through) there is a cable with the same colours. So... is this the right cable? I took a photo, but the upload to photobucket failed and I didn't notice before re-fitting trim. :-( I need to get some more scotch locks tomorrow, so not been able to "give it a try" yet Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjt Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 If i remember correctly when I did mine, its not the middle one, its one in the near side corner (by the reverse lamp). Dont take my word for it though, but I'm pretty sure i almost made the same mistake haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletMagnet Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 lime green, but make sure it's the lime green going into the cluster, cos if i remember there were two lime green wires in that area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 ^ have a search for BM's install thread it's the dogs danglies even a total tool like me managed to follow it and get it working ( eventually) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvansJD2112 Posted June 15, 2013 Author Share Posted June 15, 2013 OK was being lazy! will remove trim and do as per guide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Probably best but fair play for being up front Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs2000 Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 (edited) Finally got round to fitting my reversing camera. Pulling the cables through was quite easy thanks to the guides on here. Being lazy, I only removed the one piece of trim at the back of the boot. I know from the guides that the reverse power cable is green with silver trim and notice in the mass of cables right in the middle of the boot (above the rubber grommet you pull the cables through) there is a cable with the same colours. So... is this the right cable? I took a photo, but the upload to photobucket failed and I didn't notice before re-fitting trim. :-( I need to get some more scotch locks tomorrow, so not been able to "give it a try" yet Thanks You've probably done it by now, but no, the lime green/silver cable in the middle of the boot doesn't seem to be the same cable. I first connected here and got no signal on the screen, when I moved it to the location suggested in BM's guide it worked fine. interestingly my camera seemed to work totally fine without a ground point I can only presume it was somehow grounding itself through the video signal cable, but I connected the ground wire in the end anyway. Edited June 18, 2013 by cs2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvansJD2112 Posted June 18, 2013 Author Share Posted June 18, 2013 Cheers Will be this weekends project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvansJD2112 Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 Fitted today and all works great. Pretty straightforward but my colour blindness caused an issue! The light green cable was white to my eyes so was a bit of trial and error. Works and looks good on the Pioneer x3500dab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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