How To Install a Reversing Camera To Car DVD Stereo Headunit

If you are struggling to reverse your big car into a tight parking space, then you can install a reversing camera to help you with the manoeuvre. To display the picture of what you are doing when backing up, you will require a car DVD stereo with a screen display. It can be a single din flip out or a large double din headunit as long as it accepts video inputs it will work. Now when it comes to buying the equipment there are all sorts of different reversing cameras out there, ranging from being really cheap to top end expensive. From our experience with installing them for over 5 years at the car audio shop, the expensive ones work just as good as the cheap ones interms of functionality, however the quality with the cheap cameras seem to be more pixelated. This can be noticed more on a large screen in car DVD headunit such as the 6.5 flip outs making it look very blurry.

Once you have your camera, you will need a suitable location to fit it into the back of your car. You can either fit it into the rear window or make a small hole in the bumper and mount it in there. Its best that you get the smallest sized as possible the newer style ones to ensure that professional stealthy look from outside, since the older style ones are very bulky and in your face. Now lets get to wiring the reverse camera: you will need to obtain power and connect it as a video source. You could add a switch if want just like in the wiring diagram shown below but it is optional.

1) You will notice that the reverse backup camera itself has three wires, one yellow video RCA plug, red and black wires for power. Lets start of by connecting the black ground wire back to the negative terminal on the car battery. If there is another closer by location, you could connect it to the black wire on the wiring harness of your car stereo to save time.

2) Next you will need to connect the red wire to the reverse light found inside the back taillights. This can be done by removing the 12 volt wire that provides power to the bulb and tapping into the wiring and soldering the red camera wire together. You will also need to connect a red reverse detector lead from the car stereo wiring harness to this same wire. So in total, you will have two wires going back to the red wire found on the parking camera, one from the reverse light and the other from the stereo telling it when to go into reverse mode.

3) You will need to make the video connection this is the easiest part of the install. What you need to do is look at the different pairs of RCA's on the back of the wiring harness. You will need to look for one that is yellow that is labelled as video / picture input. Once you have found the correct one, plug the yellow camera RCA plug into this socket.

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