Install a backup camera on a yaris 2010?

[kevinj93]

I'm not sure what model Yaris you have.. I have a 5 door series 3 hatchback. On this, there is a plastic filler that fits in the rear hatch where the factory camera would fit. The interior lining om the hatch is held in by plastic clips. Just start at a corner and pull the lining away from the door, working from clip to clip..Nearly every panel removes the same way.

I drilled a hole in the camera place panel to run the camera wire through. Afterwards, this need to be sealed. I used a non hardening "coax seal" to seal this.

The hardest part is feeding the cable from the camera through the door and into the car body. I used a straigntened wire coathanger to fish the wiring around the rear door and through into the roof. From there to the side of the roof and split the wiring to get switched power and earth at the reversing light, and down to the floor for the video feed cable. The kick plates at the bottom of the door frames pull out to reveal a wiring channel. You can run the camera wiring through this to the front of the cabin..

The camera I bought came with a mirror / screen that clips over the original rear view mirror. This needed 12 volt power, switched 12 volts to activate when reverse is selected, ground and the video feedd from the camera. I ran a wire from the reversing light to feed the screen, and fed this to both of the power inputs to the screen. All wire joins were soldered and insulated. I felt the easiest place to get groung and switched 12 volt power was across one of the reversing ligyt globes the power requirements for the screen and camera are quite low.

The instruction that came with the camera and screen recommended only having one power pickup point for the system to avoid earth loops which cn degrade the video quality.

If you want to avoid running so much wiring, there are wireless cqmera kits available, but you still ned to get poeer for the screen and camera.