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What's the biggest difference
between a car built 10 years ago and a car built today?
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So the biggest difference
between a car that was built 10 or 15 years ago,
like my own, compared to my wife's car
that was built two years ago
is all the technology that's already built into it.
She has the backup camera, backup sensor,
she has the automatic lift gate, tire pressure sensor.
She even has a Bluetooth phone so she can talk hands free
as she's driving down the highway.
But Nonda makes these great after market products
like this ZUS Backup Camera
to really help you get your car's technology
up to today's standard.
Today's video is only gonna be on the ZUS Backup Camera,
but I have done other Nonda and ZUS
product review videos in the past.
If you want, check out those videos,
you can easily click this card or up there
and it will take you to those videos.
For full disclosure, I did purchase this with my own money
because I do love ZUS products,
but I will be leaving a few links down below
where you can pick up this product,
along with other ZUS products.
If you do happen to purchase something
using one of those links, I do get a small commission
which helps support this channel
with no additional cost to you.
Let's quickly go back to the studio and do a quick unboxing
and then we'll come back out and do a full install.
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All right, you can install in about 10 minutes.
It has a 170-degree wide angle lens.
Has a night vision capability,
rechargeable battery that lasts about three months.
You can use it with your Smartphone
so you don't need a separate screen.
You just the app on your Apple iPhone or Android phone,
and it's waterproof to a rating of IP67.
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- It's about 11 to 12 inches long
and it does have a little bit of weight to it,
so it does feel very well built.
In the center, in the front, is your high definition lens,
which they say has a 170-degree field of view.
Next to that is your two infrared illuminators
to help you see at night.
And on the edge you do have the anti-theft screws,
so you will need the use of the provided screwdriver
to take this on and off.
On back, you do have the micro USB port
which you have to charge this unit,
they say about every three months,
and next to that is the button to turn it on and off.
Also in the box you do get the mounting plate
which you will need to use,
and I'll show you how to install this in a second.
You get the screwdriver that I just talked about.
You get a micro USB wire
which just adds to the 1000s that I have already.
You also get them heavy duty mounting tape
which you might not need to use,
and a bunch of screws which you will not use all of them.
Let's go ahead and do the quick install.
There are three methods
depending on where your registration stickers are located
and how many screw holes you have in your car.
If your state has the registration stickers on top
and you only have two screw holes, you gonna use Method one,
and you're gonna have to install the bracket on the bottom
with additional nuts.
If you have registration stickers on top
and four screw holes,
you're just gonna screw right through the mounting plate
using Method two.
And if your registration stickers are on bottom,
you're gonna have to install the camera on top,
which is very simple with Method number three.
I'm personally gonna be using Method number one
because my car
doesn't have any mounting holes on the bottom.
So I'm gonna put the mounting plate
on the bottom of my license plate.
Use the two small M6 screws
and then using the locking nuts on back and tying those down
with the provided screwdriver and wrench.
You can use the provided little black covers
on top of the nuts to protect your car's paint
and then use the 3M heavy duty tape
on back of the license plate.
Make sure it's nice and clean.
And also clean your car
just to make sure it has a good stick,
which'll help prevent the license plate bouncing up and down
when you shutting and opening the back door.
And then don't make the same mistake that I did
and actually install the camera
onto the mounting plate just yet.
Go ahead and mount this, without the camera,
to your car using the provided screws.
And then once that's done
you're pretty much ready to rock and roll
with the download the app.
I definitely recommend that you keep the screwdriver
in your glove compartment.
That way you know where it is
when you need to take off the camera
to recharge it every couple months.
You will need to download the ZUS app
if you don't already have it.
I've previously shown that in other videos
on the ZUS tire pressure sensor and other Nonda products.
So definitely check out the top right card
and watch those videos.
We're gonna go ahead and go up here to Add
and we're gonna add the Smart Backup Camera.
And it is fully charged already.
It says you have to press and hold the button
on the back of the unit for three seconds to activate it.
Let's hold this down, one, two, three.
And the bond's successful.
The Backup Camera is connected to your cell phone
through WiFi.
Go to your phone's WiFi setting, find the WiFi name,
input the password 12345678 to connect.
Open ZUS app again and it will recognize automatically.
So we're gonna go ahead and go to Settings
and we're gonna type in the password and hit Join.
Now when we go to ZUS,
attention, please check your surroundings,
just like that hit Confirm and there we are.
Hi guys!
Go ahead and take your screwdriver
and mount this on to the mounting plate.
We are mounted.
So now I can probably click on this
and it should bring up the connection
and it's hard to see because it's night time.
And then you will have to calibrate the guidelines
which is super easy to do.
You will have to do it during the day in a parking lot,
but they do give you simple instructions how to do it,
and takes no time whatsoever.
I wonder how this is gonna work if you're on your home WiFi,
like I am in the garage,
but I also have a WiFi signal from the camera.
So, if I go to Chrome or something,
so it's not going on my WiFi.
So let's see here, if I switch to my home WiFi,
I'm gonna be in the house.
I'm gonna be on my home WiFi.
But now that I get in the car,
I still have the WiFi from the house.
I wonder what happens when you go to ZUS.
It does say that it's connected.
So let's hit this,
hit Confirm, and it's actually connecting by Bluetooth
and it does want you to switch to the WiFi network.
So here is one downside having this in your garage
is that you can't be on WiFi
because you're on your home WiFi.
So if I have this as my designated WiFi in the house,
then I'm not connected to the internet.
And then I'm gonna have to use the LTE
to connect to the internet which I don't want.
I'm also wondering about how fast you can boot up the app
from a cold start and also from a warm start.
In my testing it really didn't take that long.
At maximum it was maybe four or five seconds.
It actually took longer to find the app itself
rather than it to boot up.
It does have a night vision button
which as I was playing with it
I noticed it really doesn't do anything in my testing.
If you're in a very lit parking lot,
you're definitely gonna be able to see where you're going,
but if you're backing out of your normal driveway,
you're not gonna see it.
I really didn't see any difference
'tween the day vision and night vision
except for the colors changing.
All right, here's the day vision at night.
You can see there's a couple colors,
and we're gonna turn on the night vision.
And now it's pretty much just black and white,
except for, of course, the line.
It does have an orientation button
so if you do put your phone sideways in Landscape mode,
you can definitely get a bigger picture.
And there are a couple other minor settings
that you can tweak, like the auto night vision,
which just sets a timer
to turn on night vision at a certain time
and off at a certain time.
But in my testing,
there was really no night vision whatsoever.
So until they fix this,
there's really no need for this setting.
Then you do have the manual WiFi configuration,
but this is actually not a setting.
There is nothing you can change.
You can't change to your home network or anything like that.
There just giving you specific numbers
to put into your phone
to make sure you can join the WiFi signal
that the license plate camera is actually putting out.
So in the near future, I do hope they will change this
so you're able to use your WiFi from your house
and actually use the camera in your garage.
And because of all these issues,
I actually don't recommend this product for most people.
I think there's a bunch of issues,
some I have already mentioned but quickly to go over them.
One, I think there's an issue of finding the app
and then actually having it boot up.
In cars that already have the backup camera
built into the car
you just have to put it into reverse
and it actually pops up on the screen,
which is very nice and convenient.
Which you don't have that feature in this type of product.
Two is the night vision which is pretty much nonexistent,
even though they mention it does have one.
Compared to my wife's car,
I can actually back out of the driveway
and actually see where I'm going.
But when I'm backing out with this ZUS product,
I actually cannot see anything.
It is 100% pitch dark.
So unless you're in a lit parking lot,
you're not gonna be able to see where you're going.
Three is the WiFi issue.
If you happen to park close to your house
or inside your garage
and you're connected to your home WiFi,
you're not gonna be able to connect to the camera's WiFi
because you're already connected to the home WiFi.
So if you park close to your house or park in the garage,
it's pretty much
you're not gonna be able to use it to back out,
unless your switching networks.
The next issue I have is the actual angle of the camera.
Now it does give you a nice wide angle lens of 170-degrees,
but doesn't give you a good down angle
where you can actually see your bumper.
Most cars that have the built-in camera,
you can actually see the bumper
and actually know where your car is located.
Now I know over time
you can kinda learn where your bumper is,
but for someone who has the product for maybe a month or two
you're not gonna know where that bumper is,
and you're not gonna know where to stop.
And last but not least is battery life of up to three months
which is not that long.
Unfortunately I'm not able to test it
to see if it can go up to three months
before I put this video out,
but I will update my pros and cons list.
And if you guys want to see a full pros and cons list,
check out my website
which there will be a card right up here.
You can check out that.
So unless you're driving something
where you can't turn around
and see what's out your back window,
maybe like a box truck or a van,
this product is probably not for you.
Hopefully they put out a good version number two
in the next year or so, fingers crossed.
But until those improvements are fixed,
I can't recommend this product.
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