Locating reversing camera and screen in GU patrol

Saw one on a Troopy (with dual rear wheel carrier) mounted in the top left corner of the driver side rear barn door.

This would be the same as mounting it just under the rear breaklight on the back door of the patrol.

This position appeared to work well for the Troopy and should be OK for the Patrol.

Michael A

Bundy,

I don't know if this set up would suit you vehicle. I have the roof rack on all the time so the camera is mounted there and has a good view of the rear of the vehicle.



The screen is mounted on the overhead console again might not suit your set up.


This has worked for me on two vehicles now and I find that is what I need.

The camera should be mounted on the out side of the vehicle. Looking through the glass is not that good.

A bracket off the spare wheel carrier might be the go.

Wayne

When I had my "ordinary" GU, I (like Wayne), had the camera mounted up on the roof rack, angled down so I could see the towbar as well as being able to see about 15 meters to the rear of the truck.
A mate of mine has just fitted one to his GU too. He doesn't have a roof rack. Instead, he took off the "U" shaped towing/recovery (?) lug off the back step and made up a steel plate with 4 holes to match the pattern, welded on a length of 40mm square box section (about 70mm long)......enough to house the smallish, round camera. Note: that some camera (mine included) are like Wayne's ......more rectangluar and with infrared LEDs etc.; but my mates is one of these smaller ones.

He has just run the cable for the camera up over the top of the aluminium step and then up through the rubber grommet in the bottom quarter panel (underneath where the jack resides).

As for the screen, I have one exactly like Wayne's and I mounted mine where the normal rear view mirror used to be. I used the original mounting system, so it is as safe as the normal mirror (IE: it will break-off if something/one hits it in a collision). However, my mate has one of those screens that clips on over the original mirror (these worry me a bit, cos I reckon they will eventually be too heavy for the ball joint on the back of the mirror and will fail to stay in the desired position.

On my current dual cab GU, the camera is mounted at the bottom of the steel box.

Hi Bundy

You may get some ideas from the photos on my web page.

There are too many to cut and paste to this thread. You can email me and I can send you some high res photos.

Mounting Photos

Regards

Derek.

hi Bundy, i have a gu and have a reversing camera for hooking up trailers. i put the camera in the drivers side back door and the screen in the drop down sun glass holder.
when i pull down the flap in the sunglass holder the screen comes on automatic.
cheers shane.

If you look very carefully just above the number plate you can see the camera lense


This is the screen - I do not have a 'normal' rear view mirror - just the camera and screen



Hope these help

Kiwi,

Where did you get your overhead console? It looks like a really well finished unit!

When I had mine I put it on the inner end of the number plate and the spare tyre didnt intererfere at all.
I have a Polaris M35 with a mini camera and I ran the wires thru the door loom and thru the door handle hole. Run it from outside as camera wont go thru hole.
Gave a good view of the towball and about 100 meters behind. Found a camera with infrared to be hopeless as the colours washed out in daylight. When reversing at night the brake and reverse lights give enough light to see by.
Had a dropdown screen mounted on console to left of mirror.
If you mount camera too high and point it down too far you cant see back very far and I found as above to be ideal.

I ended up mounting mine just under the brake light inside the door. The "theory" was that seeing as we get the car dirty quite often and use the camera when reversing in the bush if it is dirty I can just hit the rear wiper to clean the glass where the camera looks through. Only been in for a couple of months now so still experimenting but visibility is good, from about 0.5m to 15m behind the car. Camera image is displayed automatically on Car PC screen when reverse is selected.