Caravan Rear Camera, look for the lurkers

Chris it would be handy to have some pictures to illustrate your story?

David

I have the inbuilt facility of a rearview camera built in to my Swift Elegance 565 2017. Have not yet used it since I feel I would be distracted by its view of rear approaching traffic. Anyone else have one fitted and any comments/hints to make?

This Year I bought the Garmin BC30 rear camera to accompany my Garmin Sat Nav, you have to have a transmitter plug-in. I bought an extension lead for the camera as my van is 8 meters long and my car is 4.5 meters so not taking any chances.  Once set up, it worked pefectly we drove to Coatia and we could easily see when we had passed big lorries on the Autobahn. You cant really see the approaching traffic in the camera as it doesnt see that far back only about 6 to 8 meters clearly,  however we used it to make sure we had cleared trucks that we had overtaken we gave a bit more room and in that case it did what we wanted it to.

I bought a 7" TFT monitor from eBay and plugged it into the cigar lighter socket of the car and mounted it as a push-fit to the air vents. This has a number of inputs including standard video. I then attached a standard CCTV dome camera (Swan) to the rear leg of the Lunar Clubman bolted through a convenient existing hole that doesn't get in the way of the leg winding down. A shielded 3 core cable then ran from the camera along the underside edge rim of the van using self adhesive cable ties (New van, I'm not drilling it). I put a snatch plug between the caravan and the car and then connected it to the monitor.  This was very useful prior to  having a mover fitted, reversing the van right up to the storage area back wall, site posts etc and also for how close cars and lorries get to you in heavy traffic.