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Ti Rich

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  1. I have had the same flickering in the cold with the latest Novsight H7. Now changed to Philips Ultinon Pro 9100 and no flickering. On canbus adapter needed either BUT they are not as bright as the Novsight. The Novsights on high beam are superb and don’t flicker.
  2. Hi All I didnt document the process with pictures sorry. However the steps were like this and may help you a little. I have a Pioneer double Din headunit for reference. 1. Remove passenger side headlight and trim on this side of the rear boot. 2. Remove passenger side number plate light (not the two screws, remove the whole unit) disconnect and replace with new led light and camera (see link below) 3. Run cables back to headlight area. The cables will run over the rear light gasket and will not be so tight that they will get damaged when the rear light is put back into position. In fact they can still move on mine and are not trapped. 4. Connect earth cable from camera to the earth point. you will see a studed bolt on the inner wheel arch - this is an ideal earth point to use. 5. You need to connect (tap into) the +ve from the camera to the reverse light wire (Blue/ Black i think) and also the feed that connects to the head unit to give it a signal that reverse has been engaged. Consider adding a fuse (1A?) to the trigger wire (mine later gets built into the RCA wire) at this point. 6. Pass the cable (RCA video feed with the signal wire built in) through the corner of the rear baulkhead. There is enough room to do so. 7. Run the cable past the hood mechanisum making sure the wire will not get traped as the hood moves. TAKE TIME AND DO IT RIGHT! 8. Move passenger seat forward and remove single screw to repalce trim panel below the seatbelt. Run cable though this area. 9. Run cable short distance inside door rubber and then round the bottom of the pastic still trim. There is no need to remove the sill trim as the wire is thin and will push up out of sight. 10. Bring wire up front door post (inside the rubber seal) to the point where the glove box is. 11. Remove 4 black large plastic screws below glove box (the foam panel will now drop) and then run wire acoss to centre of car. 12. Remove passenger side trim panel on the the center consoul that has the radio in it (T20 Torx I think, hidden in the carpet.) 13. Remove radio, feed wire though from behind to the radio. 14. Connect RCA to the REAR CAMERA input (brown on my Pioneer unit) 15. Connect signal wire to reverse signal connector and replace radio. 16. Go into settings on the Pioneer unit. Switch on rear camera and make sure the switch is set to live trigger. Thats about it! If doing it again i could do it in about 2 hours. I got my camera off ebay 2nd hand. I think the guy purschased it and then got cold feet but it's similar to this:- 987 rear camera Image quality is OK, better than nothing. The Pioneer uses a 0.3MP Camera - yours may be different. NOTE: Step 7 is what takes the time. It needs to be right else the hood could cut the cable and create a short circuit. I am going to add a fuse prior to the wire going past this section. I utilised the rubber seal around the roof mechanisum to run the wire in. It has a "flap on the inside which was just enough room to run the wire. make sure you operate the hood and see how it moves. ensure it can't ctach on the RCA/Tigger cable at any point. NOTE: The new camera/number plate unit is LED so will look stange (different colour/brightness) if the other number plate light is the original halogen bulb. However if you change that to LED it may trigger a low current fault. I am working on a fix for this using a higher power LED. I have tried two C5W led lamps from Halfords and both caused issues. NOTE: Do not remove / disconnect the number plate lights with them switched on. Do not switch on the lights with only oneconnected either. It will trigger a fault and none of the rear number plate lights will then work until the fault is cleared. I used my Incarsoft POR v2 to clear the fault. Hope that helps. If anyone can add to this please do.
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