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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: 182_blue on 07 February 2015, 14:50

Title: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: 182_blue on 07 February 2015, 14:50
Anyone done this on the MK7, i did it on my MK5 but just wondered if there is a guide for the MK7 ?
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: itavaltalainen on 07 February 2015, 15:50
Can be done but the kit from Kufatec is pretty expensive (500£).

Then needs coding with VCDS. 
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: 182_blue on 07 February 2015, 15:54
Can be done but the kit from Kufatec is pretty expensive (500£).

Then needs coding with VCDS.

I know it can be done and can get the full kit for just over £200, just wondered if there i a guide knocking about.
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: itavaltalainen on 07 February 2015, 18:45
to enable cam just code:
10 Einparkhilfe Byte 02, set Bit 4 to 1
5F Informationselektr. Byte 19, set Bit 4 to 1
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: 182_blue on 07 February 2015, 18:53
to enable cam just code:
10 Einparkhilfe Byte 02, set Bit 4 to 1
5F Informationselektr. Byte 19, set Bit 4 to 1

Thanks but was thinking more the wiring/ routing
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: mcmaddy on 07 February 2015, 19:18
Wiring is usually down the right hand side of the car when looking at the car from behind (drivers side in other words)
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: 182_blue on 07 February 2015, 19:25
Wiring is usually down the right hand side of the car when looking at the car from behind (drivers side in other words)

Even on the MK7 ?, just thinking that it now connects up to the unit in the glovebox now and not the headunit..
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: mcmaddy on 07 February 2015, 19:28
You may need to look then but to be honest what's the difference between behind the head unit or in the glovebox, about three inches??
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: 182_blue on 07 February 2015, 19:30
You may need to look then but to be honest what's the difference between behind the head unit or in the glovebox, about three inches??

In cabling routing terms its a lot more than 3 inches but i get your point.
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: itavaltalainen on 07 February 2015, 23:27
Afaik VW route down the driver's side if fitted in factory but dealers have been known to run down the passenger side when retrofitting (on the continent at least).
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: 182_blue 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.
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: Exonian 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?
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: phope 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
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: 182_blue 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?
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: mcmaddy on 09 February 2015, 07:45
Replacement interior led's and new door lights. That's about it.
Title: Re: Reverse camera retrofit ?
Post by: 182_blue 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.