If you remove the entire rear lighting assembly - held in place with about 5 nuts - you will notice that there is a ground tab at the top of the light assembly. You can read his detailed instructions and view his pictures here: While you can just splice into the wiring harness, another writer on another forum detailed a really cool way to obtain power from the backup lights on the car. Typically, these backup cameras are powered from the backup lights on the car when you shift into reverse the backup lights go on, and also power up the camera. At this point, I was feeling really confident. Removed the plastic again, drilled the hole in the marked location, and poof! it lined up.
With the hole drilled but no camera installed, I replaced the huge plastic slab I then put a screwdriver through the hole I'd drilled, and scribed the location on the plastic. My measurements were OK, and the camera fit well. This gave me access to the actual metal surface of the trunk lid I chose the spot, drilled a hole, and hoped for the best. So I tugged, it released, and I set it aside. With these removed, the only thing holding the trim piece in place are plastic clips, which will release with a bit of tugging. There are two screws holding it in place one on the extreme left of the inside of the trunk lid, and the other on the extreme right.
Left center right backup camera setup license#
I wound up placing it between the trunk release handle and the right license plate light (as viewed from the back of the car, facing the trunk).Īs it turns out, the entire rear of the E350 is not metal it's a plastic trim piece. In this episode, we find Charlie installing a backup camera.įinding a location to mount the camera was a bit of a challenge I wanted it to be as near to the center of the trunk as possible, but Mercedes had already filled most of that space with the trunk release handle, two license plate lights and a trunk lock.
Left center right backup camera setup series#
I guess this is part of an unconnected series of threads, in which Charlie describes his experiences installing a Chinese do-everything head unit in his E350 sedan.
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