back up camera


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canuck

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Mar 4, 2006
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Anyone thought or actually installed a backup camera?
 
Back up sensors

I have back up sensors on my '05 F-150 and they work great. They will sense a twig that is less than 1/4" dia. It tells me to stop when the truck gets within 8". It doesn't need a screen, it just beeps at you. I wonder if they can be added to to the GT, after all, it is a Ford option.

Craig
 
Canuck, I have researched the back up camera and found a couple that I think would work very well. For now I have decided to resist the urge and spend a little more time getting comfortable with the car before deciding if the back up camera is really necessary. A better idea might be a set of convex mirrors http://www.multivexmirror.com/index.html. My issues with visibility have more to do with side to side visibility for lane changes and less of an issue with seeing out the rear. Is your concern rear visibility or side view? PD
 
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I use my mirrors as race drivers to check next to me and in the blind spot. In this position you can not see beyond your rear bumper with the side mirrors. If fact you don't see the side of your car but rather into the lane immediately next to you. You really depend on the rear view mirror to see behind you to guage whats going and what is catching up. I may need to change this if rear viability is poor. I would also probably use a camera for parking in parallel fashion as needed and maybe while driving. Is the heat form the rear of the car too much for a camera? In regards to the car I haven't taken her out yet because the streets where I live are all muddy from Sping thaw and there are lots of dirty puddles and dirt so I will still wait a week or two for city clean up crews. I am going to wait and see what it is like. I will probably end up leaving it as is and adjust as needed. I am just curious.
 
not to be a smart ass..but...I try to never park where I have to back up...and I never worry about what is benind me...on the road...gas it and go..had the same problem with the F430...
 
I have a new Range Rover Vogue S/C - it has a very neat (small) weatherproof camera with a 'fisheye' lense. I would have thought camera tucked up into the rear skirt (under the car) would avoid the heat issue.

The GT is a sod to reverse - real heart in the mouth stuff. A little camera might be useful.

Jay? :biggrin
 
davisp said:
Canuck, I have researched the back up camera and found a couple that I think would work very well. For now I have decided to resist the urge and spend a little more time getting comfortable with the car before deciding if the back up camera is really necessary. A better idea might be a set of convex mirrors http://www.multivexmirror.com/index.html. My issues with visibility have more to do with side to side visibility for lane changes and less of an issue with seeing out the rear. Is your concern rear visibility or side view? PD
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These folks don't offer one for the GT, I would buy one in a NEW YORK second if they did. I am waiting to see someone install a camera in a sano fashion and avoid the heat issues, as soon as I see an installation that I like, I will follow.
 
I have a kit from Plate Cam but haven't had time to installed it. I've seen them installed, it has a color screen and a good clear picture.

http://www.crimestopper.com/

Click on Plate Cam.

Hope this helps.
 
I parallel parked my GT outside a restaurant today! In front of a developing crowd!

What do I win? Surely some respect??!
 
The question is where to put the screen?
 
Regarding the "Multivex mirror-- Mulitvex will be making one for the GT in the near future. They are waiting for me to provide them with the mirror paterns. I will keep you posted on progress. As for the back up camera, there are several companies that make a rear view mirror with a 4" LCD display on the drivers side of the mirror. The rest of the mirror is normal rear view. It attaches to the front of your existing mirror. Some of them even have dual inputs so that you can connect two seperate cameras. I will locate and post the links when I have some free time. PD
 
Neil, you win a set of new wheels to replace the ones you got all scratched up parallel parking. Was there a curb? You're much braver than I am.
 
screen goes on the mirror

A guy stopped me in the parking lot the other day and said he had already fitted two GTs here in Orlando with the audiovox rearview camera. Said they work great and mount on the reaview mirror. I will go and check out his shop and see if he has and more detailed info..
 
Here is the link to the rearview mirror kit that I thought would be a good fit for the GT. http://www.rearviewsystems.com/remiwin4lcdc.html

PD
 
fjpikul, there was a big curb - so additional kudos to me! I do recall humming slightly as I walked away.... :biggrin

I'm just trying to remember if I ever had to parallel park my Murcielago - I don't think I ever did. However, a quickie story on that.... I went to the New Forest in it a few years back (a sort of UK National Park) and didn't notice the width restriction sign on the narrow road.

I had to reverse back up for roughly two miles. Oh, and everybody behind me did as well. Mr Popular Jerk in the flashy yellow Lambo!

Have you ever had a bead of icy cold sweat trickle down your back??

That moment was priceless, awful, heart stopping, embarrassing etc etc etc :ack
 
--Davisp,
I got in touch with Multivex as well and that's exactly what they told me. Uhm. Are we being "played"? I hope they are not charging us extra $$ but maybe they are. I like the rearview camera but I'd like to see a car that has one already installed first. Any testimonials?
 
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Regarding the "Multivex mirror-- Mulitvex will be making one for the GT in the near future. They are waiting for me to provide them with the mirror paterns. I will keep you posted on progress. As for the back up camera, there are several companies that make a rear view mirror with a 4" LCD display on the drivers side of the mirror. The rest of the mirror is normal rear view. It attaches to the front of your existing mirror. Some of them even have dual inputs so that you can connect two seperate cameras. I will locate and post the links when I have some free time. PD
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would be pleased to see a working installation on a GT, sounds neat.
 
I have parrallel parked a few times, not fun at all.
My wife tries to help guide me in but that's almost worse than no help :wink
Takes several tries, and by the time I get parked the crowd is pretty large.
 
Canibl, I think he may be playing us. He quoted me $96.00 to make the first set. He said that after he has made the initial pattern he will charge new customers $68.00 ?? PD :ack
 
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davisp said:
Canibl, I think he may be playing us. He quoted me $96.00 to make the first set. He said that after he has made the initial pattern he will charge new customers $68.00 ?? PD :ack
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maybe you can get a group buy going, put me down for a set please.
 
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