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Offline 182_blue

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Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
« Reply #10 on: 08 February 2015, 17:58 »
Im amazed that theres no guides for this, usually someone has done something by now, they have been out for a couple of years now.

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Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
« Reply #11 on: 08 February 2015, 21:23 »
It's strange but in the mk5 and mk6 heydays there was a raft of retrofitting and I bought my first mk6 pretty standard just because I knew I could retrofit just about everything at much less cost than vw were charging as options.
Since the mk7 launch its all gone quite quiet in general with modifications.
The whole feel for modifying seems different.
I've hardly touched mine in 15 months. That would have been unknown years ago, I'd have had the thing apart and fitted all sorts.
Maybe VW's anti tamper software in certain parts of the car (ECU, nav) is putting people off in general?
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Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
« Reply #12 on: 08 February 2015, 21:29 »
I guess component protection is a big part of it, and finding a willing dealer/specialist with the right VW-linked kit to have such items recoded
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Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
« Reply #13 on: 08 February 2015, 21:33 »
It's strange but in the mk5 and mk6 heydays there was a raft of retrofitting and I bought my first mk6 pretty standard just because I knew I could retrofit just about everything at much less cost than vw were charging as options.
Since the mk7 launch its all gone quite quiet in general with modifications.
The whole feel for modifying seems different.
I've hardly touched mine in 15 months. That would have been unknown years ago, I'd have had the thing apart and fitted all sorts.
Maybe VW's anti tamper software in certain parts of the car (ECU, nav) is putting people off in general?

Thats exactly what I was thinking,  the forums were full of people adding all sorts of things but nothing hardly on the mk7, i thought it would take a while with it being new but it's been around a couple of years now so surely people are adding stuff?

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Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
« Reply #14 on: 09 February 2015, 07:45 »
Replacement interior led's and new door lights. That's about it.
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Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
« Reply #15 on: 09 February 2015, 13:33 »
Yes looks that way, what happened to all the models ?, they must have moved on, it was one of the fun parts of VW ownership though.