Fiat 500 - Reverse Camera

Fitting a Reverse Camera
Not really all the mechanics of it - just what I learned from having done it.
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[@jackkelly7293]

Really nice video - thanks for sharing. You explained this fit to my dad an I on the street a few weeks ago. A really fantastic explanation -a lot of detail explained a way a 'layman' can understand. Thanks and i'll let you know if we install something like this!

[@so-teq6142]

No worries.

[@kneh39]

Hello, where make you feedthrough for the camera to bumper

[@so-teq6142]

@@kneh39 If you look under the car behind the bumper in the centre, you will see where other cables also head into the car. There's a large rubber grommet they pass through. I ran it alongside those.

[@rossocorsahf]

Thanks for a really helpful video, I did mine this week but being a glutton for punishment I put mine on the hatch handle, took me hours and hours to do but I like to make everything look as factory as possible including binding the wiring with cloth tape etc. I just cut the RCA off one end of the supplied cable and then replaced it later in the process, getting the wire through the rubber sleeve and down the frame on the side of window was still difficult, used thin welding wire to pull them through. The power lead isn't long enough to reach the lower area so I added an extension cable and it was this that I pushed though the sleeve then added terminals later to connect it. The hatch handle needed to be modified to accommodate the camera cable by adding grooves for it to sit in, there is a rectangular hole that the cables can exit through already in the hatch. To avoid having to remove the radio when fitting the main unit I added a RCA cable to extend the connection on the loom, this meant I could connect the camera at my leisure with a connection near the sill area.

[@so-teq6142]

@@rossocorsahf I had cut the end off the cable and used a 1mm copper lighting cable with the insulation removed to try and fish through the sleeve. It wasn't happening for me and I spent about an hour trying to do it. In the end I decided it wasn't worth all the effort and went for the bumper. I've just done the rear speakers. I'll upload the video at some point.

[@carldean2597]

I put mine under the rear spoiler. Right in the middle, I used a wolfbox Camera mirror and the reversing camera through the car to start

[@Love500]

I put them in the rear bumper which I find is a bit low but for the same reason you fitted it under the bumper. It’s far too much grief trying to get through that gaiter.

[@so-teq6142]

Yep. I literally spent a weekend trying to go with the boot handle and gaiter. In the end it was a revelation realising it would be so much easier going for the bumper and what I was trying to get across in the video. Don't go for the handle even though it seems obvious as it's in the middle. The bumper is just so much easier. With hindsight I might have gone for a camera I could drill and fit into the bumper.

[@Love500]

@@so-teq6142 that’s precisely what I’ve done a few times. A ball camera, just pushes in like a parking sensor.

[@byronwilson6036]

Really interesting video I’m just on with fitting one to a 2016 500c. I have the EssGoo head unit very similar to the Xtron. Did you have any problems sorting the canbus error that’s makes the mileage flash as I can’t seem to find correct vehicle on the EssGoo l.

[@so-teq6142]

The error is because the car is having trouble talking to the unit I believe. Mine worked fine. Does it have a hidden menu like the Xtrons unit?

[@byronwilson6036]

@@so-teq6142 I’ll have a look tonight it has a canbus vehicle menu but not seen the menu you had up on the video as yet

[@lisaanddave456]

Fantastic vlog could you tell us what camera you used please

[@so-teq6142]

@@lisaanddave456 That was the camera on a Samsung S23+.