Originally Posted by markn

Hi All,

Just wanted to publicy thank Jag for giving up his Saturday afternoon to help me install the back up camera into my Camry. He's an extremely gracious guy and I feel fortunate to have met him through this forum.

Some observations that we had while doing the install. If you are going to use Jag's method of splicing wires obtained from an old cd-rom cable to put into the R10 connector, make sure that the wires that you use are pretty stiff and are not floppy. We initially took four wires from the same cd-rom cable but two of them proved too limp to push into the R10 connector. We could get them partially in but they would end up bending before hitting the bottom of the connector. Tried using a straightend paper clip to push the wires down to no avail. We ended up redoing the connections with some stiffer wires. It also helps a lot if you have an extra pair of hands when mounting wires into the R10 connector as it's a pretty tight squeeze and you've got your nav screen hovering over an exposed shift lever (see Jag's pictures at the beginning of the post)

Two other points regarding the splicing of the wires.

First, make sure that you leave enough of the cable exposed outside the shrink tubing (Once again, see Jag's picture of the completed R10 connector. Remember that you're going to have to push the cables all the way down the connector until they engage. We intially tried doing them one at a time but ended up sticking all four in at once and pushing them down.

Second, make sure that you have some sort of way to mark the cables. In our situation we had two red and two white cables. Unless you're lucky engough to get a cd-rom cable that has the same color wires as the cameras, you'll have to mark them before the heat shirinking covers up the cameras wires. We ended up using some paint that Jag had in his garage. In hindsight it would have been great to have some colored electricians tape or a label maker to save us some time.

Thanks again Jag and sorry for the long post all.

Mark