License Plate Rear View Camera - Built-in Distance Scale Lines Backup Parking/Reverse Assist Waterproof Adjustable Slim Bar Cam w/ 420 TVL Resolution & RCA Output Zinc Black Chrome - Pyle PLCM18BC

I was going back and forth between this camera and some of the $100 + systems and decided to try this one out to see how I liked it, if it was junk I was only loosing around $30. So far I have loved it. It is a little grainy in low light you will still be able to see whats behind you at night so you don't destroy your bumper or someone else's. I installed it on a 2004 Nissan Titan Crew Cab 4x4 truck along with the App Radio 2 system. It installed really easily. The cable that comes with it was about 1 foot too short for my truck but my installer added length from another cable and it worked fine. I wired it to my license plate lights so I can use the camera when ever my headlights are turned on and not just in reverse, I have no good reason for it but I wanted it that way, and I have been very impressed with the quality of the picture, full color no sound. I am going to upload some pictures I have taken with it at different lighting levels. I highly recommend this camera to anyone who wants a backup camera and already has a screen to hook it up too. Just like any camera during the am the lens can fog slightly just like your windows and when rain gets on the lens it distorts the image. The viewing angle is great, I installed it on the top of my license plate and can see the edge of my bumper and the corners of my bumper to both sides. When driving down the road I can clearly see the lanes on both sides of my if I am in the middle lane. This camera dose have the red .5 meter, yellow 2 meeter and green 3.5 meter markers on it, they are useful but not something I trust completely. Again, HIGHLY recommend this.

I bought this camera to install with my Pioneer AVH-3500BHS in a Corolla 2010. I finished the installation today with help of my brother. The installation took about 2 hours. The package came with everything you need to get it installed except for the detailed installation instruction. I did some youtube search to understand the basics. Here are the steps needed. First, you need to find a way to run the cable attached to the camera to the back of the car near the backup light harness. In my Corolla I used the license plate light as an access point. Second, you will need to cut the backup light harness to get access to the red (power) and black (ground). Connect these to the camera's black and red wires of the power cable. Third, there is an additional red wire that is part of the 15 feet video cable. This also need to be connected to the red of the backup light harness. Fourth, you need to run the video wire/red wire to the front to connect it to the stereo/monitor. Then, connect the video cable to the back of the stereo/monitor. Finally, my stereo came with a wire labelled backup camera that was not connected to anything previously, but it's now connected to the red wire that is part of the 15 feet video cable. This wire is important, because it will change the screen on your stereo automatically to the backup camera view when you put the gear to reverse (R). With this step up the Camera is getting the power only when my car is on reverse. Now, back to the camera itself. Here are the pros and cons of this camera. Pros Affordable (30$) Very nice color picture quality Very reasonable night quality Adjustable camera vertical camera angle Scale with yellow and red lines Supposed to be waterproof and fog resistent (I have not test either yet). Cons my only issues is that the camera actually covers the province/state name on my license plate. My worry is that I might be stopped by police because the camera is obstructing part of the license plate. I have not tested this camera in a car wash yet and I've for just few hours. So, I can't comment on longevity and durability of this camera. In summary, this is a very reasonable camera for the price! I love the picture quality and the lines that really help with parking!

Okay. This product is just as advertised and once installed properly, is on point. Now, my unit did not come with directions for installation but I figured I would pretend Google didnt exist and went at it. First there are two cables with this unit, one is a video male to male connector (for hooking up to display unit, stereo, tv, or projector if you are really odd) and another one that plugs into the power jack on camera and then has a naked end with positive and negative wires (exposed). I found the reverse light wires running to reverse lights and spliced the red and black to the positive and negative leads to reverse light, which gives the camera power only when the reverse lights are on (when in reverse obviously) I then ran the video cable to head unit and hooked up and every thing was great. The one thing i did not figure out, was a small thin red wire that was exposed at both ends of the video cable. I am not sure if that is something to hook up to the monitor or head unit that makes it automatically switch to the camera feed once vehicle is put into reverse. But the camera works fine as is, and I did not want to resort to google as I mentioned earlier. Oh and the hardest part if you have a tailgate or hatchback is running the wires from the camera THRU some orifice (I used the place where my license plate lights are) to get it into the cabin of car to run video cable thru car to head unit or monitor. Okay all of that being said. It was not that hard to install once I worked out the obvious and the quality of the image is very very very clear and the adjustable camera angle is easy to work out and my wife likes the three color (red yellow green) back up scale lines imposed on the image. Good stuff.

I bought this device for my 2009 Ford Ranger extended cab. When I received the camera, it had the following in the box: 1. Camera 2. 17'-ish long composite cable 3. Power cable 4. Utterly useless instructions. I did not have a wire alongside the composite cable. I wound up running a single 18 gauge wire to send the signal to the head unit to turn on. The composite cord is just long enough without having to extend it on my truck - for other Ranger owners, drop the wire from the radio down the driver's (left) side of the tranny tunnel, then go through the grommet that is under the driver's seat. I put the wires in loom and snaked them along the frame alongside the other wiring for the truck and it's *just* long enough to get back to the bumper. I soldered a wire onto the positive side of the backup light, and I grounded the camera above the spare tire (using an existing 10mm bolt that bolts the spare tire cable assembly to the truck), which you'll want to remove to have some room hooking things up. I don't recommend the camera be on all the time, it'll probably wear out too fast. If you have a trailer and want to be able to turn the camera on, use a diode at the backup light and hook up an auxiliary switch on the dash somewhere to put +12V on the power line you run from the back of the truck - this will turn the camera and the radio input on and the diode will prevent the backup lights from coming on if you want to use the camera independently. Make sure you solder all the connections! The quality of the camera is a lot better than I thought it would be. Haven't tried it at night yet. Edit: I've now had this unit for 2.5 months. Camera still works perfectly. Night vision is actually pretty decent - the backup lights on my truck are pretty bright and I could even see a car parked across the street from my house. It's nothing like infrared and the image can be a bit grainy at night but you can easily identify people walking or parked vehicles. I also discovered that if a raindrop sits on the camera it looks like your LCD screen is broken in the truck. That gave me a heart attack the first time I saw that. Now as a part of my morning routine I wipe off my side mirrors and the camera at the same time and problem solved! ;-) Edit (2014-11-28): For those wondering about durability and longevity, I've now had this for about one year and four months. I've dropped things on the camera while loading my truck (if it wasn't metal I'm sure it would have broken), I've caught it with my toe climbing in and out of the truck bed, it's been through the carwash several times, it's been buried in snow a few times, covered in snowy mud from highways, and it's seen temperatures of about -20 celcius. The dang thing is still working! Edit (2018-03-10): Well, it seems the camera got moisture behind the lens making it useless (the camera still works but it is so blurry you can't tell what it's showing. Lasted about 5 years for me.

Unlike some of the other reviewers the camera I received DID NOT have a trigger wire (even though its listed on the box and in the pictures on Amazon). It arrived with a regular RCA cable. My guess is the manufacturer cheapened their product to save a buck and is hoping nobody will notice. This is annoying because the trigger wire was the reason I bought this particular camera instead of the seemingly identical one sold by Taotronics. However I did not return the camera because it was cheaper/faster to just buy some cheap wire locally. Pros: Good picture for the price, surprisingly good in low light. Metal camera housing. Cons: False advertising (no trigger wire). Also the wires used to power the camera (from the taillight) are incredibly thin and cheap, probably 28 gauge wire.

I haven't really tried it in the day, but night view is pretty awesome. Really easy to install and the quality of the camera is really nice. I like how easy it is to install in the front bumper of my car.

Feels like a quality unit which is much better than the cheap plastic no-name stuff. The picture quality is excellent. Aiming the camera after installing requires loosening 2 number 0 Phillips head screws. Since these screws should be on the bottom of the unit it can make access a bit challenging depend on the mounting location. Other than those screws it is easy product to install. If you register the product, the company tech support will reach out via email to insure you are satisfied with the product and to see if you need any installation support. Never had a company that was that proactive about customer satisfaction. Overall consider it a good value for the money.

Good Camera. Now, Pyle adds this red wire, and no where in the simple directions they give you do they tell you what to do with the red wire that is connected to the Composite Video Cable. Of course you read the reviews, half the buyers don't know what it is for, half the buyers say they figured it out. However nobody tells you what to do with the red wire. So for everybody that buys this unit, here is what you do with the red wire. First you will have a power supply, this has a black stripped wire, and a red stripped wire. Run these wires to your back up light. Red is positive, Black is the neutral. Connect the red to the positive wire on your back up light, Connect the Black to the negative wire on your back up light. When you run the composite video cable with the red wire, one end goes to your head unit. There should be a wire on your head unit that says "To Reverse Light" or something similar. Connect the one end of the red wire to this wire. Now here is the kicker, the piece of information that is missing everywhere. At the Camera, you will connect the other end of the video wire to the camera. What you will have left is the red wire hanging out of the video connector. Get yourself some extra wire, connect the extra wire to the red wire hanging off the cable, run this extra wire back up to your reverse light, connect the red wire to the positive wire of the reverse light. Now, when your stereo is on, and your car is running, when you shift the car into reverse, power will go to the camera and turn the camera on, a signal from the reverse light will be sent back up to your head unit, basically telling your head unit the camera is on and you are in reverse, the head unit will immediately switch to back up camera mode, whammy, you now have reverse back up video, as soon as you put the car into drive or any other gear, the camera will shut off, send a signal to the head unit telling it power is off, and your head unit will switch back automatically to your tuner, or whatever you have it setup to do. Pyle does not send enough wire, you will probably need to get an extension video cable from Best Buy, Radio Shack, or on here at Amazon. In addition, buy extra wire to extend the Red Wire up to your back up light. You may just want to tie both red wires in at the same time to your back up light. You will probably need to extend the red wire up to the head unit if you had to put on an extension video wire because the little red wires connected to the video wire that comes in the box are only about 4" long on each end. I hope this finally answers all the questions as to what to do with the red wire.

Una cámara de reversa no necesita una altísima resolución, ya que con una resolución aceptable es suficiente para observar cualquier obstáculo, siempre y cuando su sensor pueda captar la imagen exterior en condiciones de baja luz. Esta cámara puede captar imágenes bastante aceptables en condiciones de poca luz. Parece soportar muy bien condiciones climáticas difíciles, como por ejemplo mucha lluvia, y seguir funcionando sin problema. Es importante tener en cuenta que serán necesarios tornillos un poquito más largos si se tiene un marco porta placa abultado, o bien, comprar algún marco porta placa delgado y plano para poder usar prácticamente cualquier tornillo para placa. Aconsejo ampliamente comprar algún juego de tornillos para placa de los que usan llave especial. Es decir, que no puedan desatornillarse con cualquier desarmador o pinzas. De otra manera, cualquiera podría robarse tu cámara si dejas el auto estacionado en algún lugar que no esté bien vigilado. El segundo aspecto a tener en cuenta es que cualquier cámara de reversa necesita una instalación un poco compleja, ya que es necesario pasar el cable de señal desde la placa hasta el estéreo (o monitor de la cámara). El cable de señal incluido con la cámara tiene un poco más de 5.5 m de largo. Esta longitud me fue suficiente para instalar esta cámara en un auto Chevrolet, pero se quedó un poco corta para una segunda cámara que instalé en una Dodge Durango. Por lo que en caso de tener una SUV tan larga como la Durango, es importante considerar alguna extensión RCA.

Very solid build quality...I still have to get it connected but so far it looks and feels awesome in my hand...I think this will last the lifetime of the car.

It was so simple to install and the clarity of the display was exceptional. I was. It expecting the display to be that crystal clear. Camera resolution is great. Great value

Good camera, working like a charm. Clear even in night time

Buen producto, es decir, la calidad no es excelente, pero si se ve mucho mejor que las cámaras de ese precio... de noche se ve de maravilla, puesto que yo tenia un que se veía horrible de noche.. si vale la pena