does any one know where the cable for the rear view camera terminates after it comes out of the mmcs?

 

Try look behind the right rear panel in the trunk.

 

I went through the entire technical manual and the best I could figure out is that it terminates in some main cable junction in the firewall somewhere.I can say for sure that the 08 does not have any cables in or arround the rear hatch for the camera. What I did when I installed the camera, I ran the cable from the rear to the dash, running it along the floor. I would not recomend doing along the roof line since you are very close to the side airbags. As for the MMCS, what I did was to completly unplug the rear camera connector from the MMCS. I then dug arround my spare computer junk and ripped out every connector I could find untill I found the perfect 4-pin connector that fit right into the MMCSso I did not have to do any splicing of stock wires. Taking the power from the reverse tail light worked perfectly as well.

 

Killjoy, can you take a picture of the connector that you used and the possible name? thanks

 

Cant remember what I pulled this from.

 

cool, thanks killjoy, looks like the electrical plug for the peripherals

 

Looks like a fan connector plug.

 

killjoy It seems as though your cut in the rear plastic was really small What camera did you use

 

I just dug through my junk parts bin and I think that cable came from an old cannon inkjet printer that was attached to one of the motors. Went with the Pioneer ND-BC2. A fantastic camera. Aswome in low light conditions.

For the cutout, after doing it, It should h ave been way smaller then what I did. The bracket for the BC2 in a thin U shap bracket. All I should h ave done was cut 2 thin slots that the bracket could slide into the slots and thats it. I attached the camera to the back wing from the inside which is more secure.

One other huge tip. You dont h ave to drill a single hole in the rear hatch frame to run the cable inside the hatch. To remove the rear wing to attach the camera to it, you h ave to remove the hand latch release assembly. When I pulled that out, I was able to just squeeze the cable through the open hole just above the bolt hole when I put he latch back on, fit perfectly.

l left the BC2 brain unit in the rear hatch so that I can get the power to it from the reverse light, did not see the point powering the camera all the time. Then all I had to do was run the video cable only to the mmcs.

 

I was able to trace where the wire goes after it comes out of the MMCS, I will have pictures up soon, but after it comes out of the MMCS, all the wires trace over to the left side connector {the three connectors which are attached to the adapter that holds the MMCS, right before it goes into the next harness}, after the wires reach there, they terminate, I used a multimeter to find the correct routing of wires, I will have the exact pins that they land at soon.