Man of Honour
My ones come as standard, on a Bentley Continental Flying Spur
The factory fitted one on the F10 is good so is the auto parking option.
My ones come as standard, on a Bentley Continental Flying Spur
The factory fitted one on the F10 is good so is the auto parking option.
[TW]Fox;20487669 said:Or I could do something really risky and... buy a camera AND have a trip the pictures Imagine that? What a ridiculous argument against it.
It's 20 quid not £2000. Most people **** that up the wall on a typical night out. It's just a curiously interesting little project which will keep me amused for an hour fitting it and then be a bit gimmicky once its in. If it can go in without being tacky, why not. If it can't, then it won't. It's really that simple which I was asking for peoples experiences with them.
Oh lighten up Mike FFS!
Experience of them? I've plenty. Generally, there crap!
I think we'd get screwed if we said an OEM system in the car would cost as much as £20 in parts. £20 is stil plenty cheap for the aftermarket.
Shame yanks dont use them instead of running over 918 kids every year as they back off the drive.
To meet FMVSS111 you have to make the screen come on within 2 secs of applying reverse (IIRC). You up for that challenge?
[TW]Fox;20488194 said:You have experience of the cheap eBay ones? As that's what's useful to me.
Having used several cars with factory ones I already know the work well in practice. It's more the technical side of the diy ones I am interested in experiences of.
Yes, tried one that is fitted to one of our tractor units at work by a driver, the idea is to cover his blind spot, its wired into his notebook (via USB I think) whilst yes, it shows if something is in said blind spot, its picture quality was poor and the image kept freezing.
It may not have been the one your looking at (I'm sure its unlikely!) but it was not the greatest piece of kit, no.
Spending more would give better results I'm sure.
If that one on the Accord replaced one of the number plate lights, does that not then mean that it looks like you have one of the lights blown?
It looks to me like it has two lights either side of the camera part so that you don't lose your lighting entirely.
Are they lights? Looked like little sensors to me..
[TW]Fox;20488301 said:These are not USB cameras though?
They'd be pointing pretty much directly down though, what would they be sensing?
What blew me away was the level of tech in the Ford Focus
It wasn't that long ago this tech was reserved for high end mercs and lexus only.
And already you can have it on your 2012 Focus. Incredible.