Just thought I'd pass along a few items related to the install I did today.
Background: I installed a Z110BT about 7 months ago in a 2009 Honda Civic. I didn't buy a backup camera at the time because I couldn't decided if I wanted to spend over 200.00 on something that might turn out to be a novelty. However I have discovered with this car that it's difficult for me to judge the distance behind me so a couple of weeks ago I started looking into them.
I found the little 1" (or so) square ones but couldn't figure out where I'd put it where it might blend in. Looked to me like it would be a 'wart' on the trunk near the license plate. Then I found the Boyo license plate cameras. (Thanks to a tip from someone on this site) I found the VTL375 would match my car (black), was all metal and would tilt. It was CCD and had pretty good reviews at different sites. I searched for an outlet near me that carried them and found that Al and Ed's carried them so I went to their site. $235.00 - wow! Then I clicked on their "price match" and it came up with Crutchfield at $199.00 so they'd match that price. I looked on e-bay and Amazon and found it for $135.00 from a vendor called Audiosavings - new in the box; so I ordered it.
Just installed it, which meant I had to tear apart the dash again (glad I saved the 'how to' .pdf) and wired up the camera leads for power and ground by tapping into the ACC wire and a ground wire. Then I headed to the trunk and found that the license place was intended to be through bolted into the trunk. I decided to bite the bullet and simply drilled out the threads on the license plate mounting nuts so the bolts would slide through.
Without drilling pretty large holes (for access to the nuts) I decided not to drill for the lower holes. I had some rubber feet about 3/8" in diameter in my parts box. Don't know what they came off of but they were the type designed to fit (like a grommet) into a hole that happened to be just the diameter of the license plate mounting holes; so those got pushed and turned into the lower license plate holes as bumpers.
The Boyo kit comes with a couple of grommets already on the lead from the license plate holder so I measured and found that a hole, slightly larger than 3/8" would allow me to pass the connecting wire through the hole and seal it with the grommet. Drilled up next to the trunk lights (the ones that light up the license plate). Worked out perfect.
I connected everything up and fired up the car. Break on I tested the camera by putting the car in reverse. Hey! It worked ! Hid the camera wire under the plastic on the drivers side, zip tied the routing in the trunk and under the dash and reinstalled the dash. (damn that's a tight fit, and those bottom screws are REAL BUGGERS to get in!)
Seems to work good in the daylight. I'll see what it looks like tonight when it's dark.
It's got the "Caution, image appear reversed" on the screen but it's just like looking in the rear view mirror. Stuff on your left is on the left of the screen, so I'm guessing all is good.
One thing though...
I read here that you could, in fact, watch the rear camera view when driving. I can't figure that one out. It's not in the AV settings (no choice for it when setting up [say] AV2).
Can anyone walk me through selecting the rear camera while in drive?
Also, in the rear camera settings it gives a choice of On/Off (obvious) and another for Battery/Ground. It's on battery now and works fine. Anyone know what happens if you select Ground? Little nervous about doing that in case it might blow up or something .