rev up your engines, let's face it all drivers have a big fear, that when you
back up you're gonna hit something, now by law in the United States since the
year 2018 all cars sold have to have backup cameras on them for safety
reasons, but let's face it, do you really want to spend twenty-five to forty five
thousand dollars on a new car just for a backup camera
well this boscam system costs less than a hundred dollars
it's wireless and you can easily install it yourself, now they work great in
any vehicle, but I'm going to show it in this big van, because the vans are large
they're hard to backup and if you were installing a wired system, you got to run
all that wiring from the back where the camera is, all the way into the front
where your monitor is, the only thing you have to install is, you put the camera
back by the license plate, then with that unit there is the wireless transmitter
that transmits the pictures to the front, then in the front you have the monitor
it just plugs into the cigarette lighter of course if you want a hardwire it to the
car you do that, you don't have to run a wire all the way from your monitor back
to the camera, which is a royal pain in the butt in any vehicle but especially
in something as long as this van, now you could put your cat in the back for a
lookout, but really they're so skittish you couldn't trust them, now the camera
installation is easy, you just unscrew part of the license plate, just take this
screw out, put the camera behind it and screw it
back in, then the camera is set up, then you have to fish the wires through, in this
case we'll take out the back panel, just remove the screws
this one's really long, but once you got it apart, fish the wires through and then
you got a mount the antenna assembly for the transmitter, it's got a sticky back
3m tape you can put it wherever you want, like right here if you want
then comes the only tricky part, there's a red power wire and a black ground wire
the ground wire you can just screw to the body of the vehicle, because it's
called ground, but the power wire you got to put it to the power wire that runs
your backup lights, because it's a backup light camera, so what you do is, turn your
key on with the engine off and put the car in reverse, then the backup light is
on, then you can just get a test meter if you don't have a wiring diagram, put it
on volts, then go to the wiring and find out exactly where that wire is that's got
the power on now for the backup lights, now I'm lazy so I'm doing it that way
splicing into the wiring harness, but if you're not so lazy, and you want an
easier job, just take the whole assembly out, then you'll see the backup light and
you'll see the wiring going right to it that has
power and you can splice it in here, but then you gotta take all this crap apart
and the inside, which is a little bit more work, but if you don't mind and you
want to make sure it's the right light take this out and splice it in right at
the connector there, now that was a hard part here comes the easy part, hooking up
the monitor, now that's a heck of a lot easier, it's got a cigarette adapter you
plug it in, now you can see the light is on so it's working and there we have it
a nice backup light camera that you can mount wherever you want,
now I tried out a bunch of these backup light cameras, but this boscam one is
the best one I tried out so far, yeah it's $99 and there's a lot cheaper ones out
there, but this wireless setup works quite well and a waterproof camera lasts
over time, you don't need wires to go all the way from the back, all the way up to
the front that saves you a lot of time and energy, plus since it's wireless if
you want to switch it from vehicle to vehicle, it's very easy to switch out,
you have to rewire all that stuff, now
realize that there's all kinds of things out like this
HDR Android rearview mirror assembly that does DVR
a front and rear camera, so not only is a backup camera, but it's a camcorder that
can record in case you get an accident, but as I said, if you're dealing with a
hardwired system like this, hey you put the camera in the same place on the back
but then you got to run this wire the whole way through your vehicle, all the
way up into the rear-view mirror for it to work, it's a real pain to hook up
plus, a lot of people don't like this rigged look of sticking one mirror over
the other mirror, and having wires hanging all over the place, now yes this
boscam does it have a wire that goes and feeds the power to the system, but
you can either hide the wires or if you really want to be a pro, you can just
take the cigarette light adapter and cut the wire off and just go to your
ignition switch and follow it under the dash, and wire it directly to your
ignition switch, so that when you turn your ignition switch on, it has power and
runs the unit, but if you don't want to go to all that trouble, hey this adapter
also has a USB port on it too, so you can still run stuff off your cigarette lighter
besides just as unit, because this unit doesn't use very much power at all, so
now you know how not to back up into things and especially at night because
it does have nighttime vision, so you can see at night, now in the night it's black
and white it's not in color, but you can still see a quite well because realize
your backup lights are still lighting up some of the area as you backup and since
its mechanic Monday, I'm giving away one of these Boscam wireless backup camera
systems, to have a chance to win just place a clean non offensive comment on
the youtube comments below, and the winner will be chosen randomly by
computer to get a nice backup system camera, so you don't have to worry about
running into things, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
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