Stock/oem look backup camera install
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sorry i was missing for a while....so i was looking at this and i see that pressing the aux button once puts you in aux mode then you need to hit the radio button to get back but i also see that you have nav which changes your button layout. presumably you could easily wire in a relay which triggers and releases on a backup signal to put you in aux mode then re-triggers upon loss of signal. i believe bosch or agastat makes solid state relays which do this....lemme look for you. the downside is that it would only put you in disc mode, not sat/am/fm mode....can you live with that or do you want it back to sat every time? because that relay will only simulate one button push.
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i have both, beep and a LED readout bar. The readout bar is mounted in the rear of the cabin so it's easily read when looking in the rear view mirror. The nicest thing is senors look completely stock on my black G. any other color G would require the senors to be color match painted to look stock.
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Wanting the distance markers, I bought the trunk trim from the same person as the OP (actually picked it up in South Brooklyn from the guy) so I could install the Sanyo camera (also on order).
Last edited by dohturdima; 03-08-2011 at 03:01 PM.
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I also installed backup sensors over a year ago, and find them extremely useful when parking in tight spots (have to do that pretty often in NYC) along with Boyo license plate camera. My beep/distance readout bar is mounted on the steering wheel console - for me it is more useful when I am in close using the screen camera info together with the distance #'s while backing in close. Your sensors look much more stock then my Fleabay ones (care to post a link?) and are probably not giving you as much grief re. false-positives (mine very annoingly start going off when there is a speck of dust/dirt on them forcing me to either clean them constantly or turn the beeping off
). I had mine painted over when my bumper was repainted after some a-hole bumped my parked G, but they definitely look cheap/aftermarket.
Wanting the distance markers, I bought the trunk trim from the same person as the OP (actually picked it up in South Brooklyn from the guy) so I could install the Sanyo camera (also on order).
![Mad](https://g35driver.com/forums/images/smilies/mad.gif)
Wanting the distance markers, I bought the trunk trim from the same person as the OP (actually picked it up in South Brooklyn from the guy) so I could install the Sanyo camera (also on order).
http://www.steelmateusa.com/PTS400M6.php
Last edited by Li_Photo; 03-09-2011 at 12:14 AM.
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sorry i was missing for a while....so i was looking at this and i see that pressing the aux button once puts you in aux mode then you need to hit the radio button to get back but i also see that you have nav which changes your button layout. presumably you could easily wire in a relay which triggers and releases on a backup signal to put you in aux mode then re-triggers upon loss of signal. i believe bosch or agastat makes solid state relays which do this....lemme look for you. the downside is that it would only put you in disc mode, not sat/am/fm mode....can you live with that or do you want it back to sat every time? because that relay will only simulate one button push.
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@smooth - that's *basically correct but you would need to get a "momentary closure" type relay which will basically mimic the pressing of a button. wire the 12V reverse power to the relay coil and have the normally open contacts of the relay between the stock wiring for the aux button (you would wire this in parallel). then basically every time it sees a 12V reverse signal it should mimic pressing the aux button for you. then when you went to drive you'd have to hit the map button or something.
ill poke around to see what relays are out there when i grab some free time today.
ill poke around to see what relays are out there when i grab some free time today.