Riviera

If it helps ?

aperez1460

I dont think i have all those options but ill double check, thanks.

JohnnyC300

Anyone in the New York / NJ tri-state area who has successfully done this want to collab and help me out? I'm mechanically inclined and technological but this is my first car and I'm afraid of the wiring / snaking process.

Was thinking I'd buy one of the newer cameras that fit into the license plate light to simplify the process, any opinions on this, or suggestions on which model to buy?

lemonstand

What year is ur c300? I just did the backup camera install today on my 2012 C250. It was time consuming, but worth it. All in all, it cost around $80 bucks total and about 5 hours of my time.


I was afraid of messing up too, but if you do "add-a-fuse" you are not cutting or splicing any Mercedes Factory cables.

robnyc

Going to do my rear-view camera install but most of the links for the cams here are from HK and shipping is looking for next month, anyone can recommend something that ships faster to the USA?

Thx

lemonstand

Mine came from an eBay seller "autoimage2010" on eBay and it came from California. Camera works great. Perfect fit.

http://bit.ly/1eQcZLd

Hope that link works.

sentralfyr

Have now started to collect and buy, the things i need for installing camera.
If someone can see if there are something i miss,or something looks wrong
please comment!!!

This is for a 2012 Mercedes E Coupe with Comand Online(NTG4,5)

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-...213023810.html

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Fakra...068700237.html

lemonstand

I see a few things you may be missing but maybe I don't know all the details of your install.. How do you plan to get power to the camera? If your doing "add a fuse" then you'll need the following

1. "Add a fuse" got mine from autozone (~$5 bucks) because all the ones sold online were too small
2. Red & black electrical wire, connecting joints (don't know how else to describe them), and a crimper

Since you mention this is going on an E-coupe I don't know which fuse you should use. Maybe you should post this ok te E-Coupe forum.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

paulo744

I personally wouldn't replace the license plate light to put this camera. I would use the existing hole for its placement and install there.

But, nice mod to do!

robnyc

Thanks anything else I need for W204 \ Command Nav ?

sentralfyr

Thanks for replying
Fuseholder and wire ive got in my garage.

I know that the E-class coupe is based on a C-class, but im sure it is quite a lot of differences.

I have looked in the "coupe" forum and there is it nothing at all about this subject.

sentralfyr

Im about to use the licenceplate light, but had a few thoughts, but ordered that cam anyway.

But what cam should i buy?

2nice4me

my camera has it own power line (red and black) but the yeloww RCA cable also had a red cord attached, what is that for?

Riviera

a picture ?

2nice4me

The camera is different than shown but the wiring harness is the same. The camera has a plug that connects to the power (cables C + D). Then there is a RCA plug (male) on both ends with a red power line also both ends.

in this picture it says cable "B" goes to the LCD?


here is the picture of the RCA cable with a red cable on both ends

Riviera

Probably useless in our case, the nav systems automatically goes in reverse mode showing reverse camera image, just connect C & D, leave B isolated.

If you have a multimeter measure resistance between C & B, if it shows 0ohms thus the C & B cables are just the same.

Pascal

lemonstand

2nice,

I bought the same camera you have. Cable b is useless. I put electrical tape over it and it's just dangling in the back of my head unit. Like the last guy said. Once you put it in reverse the head unit automatically switches to that video feed.

Riviera

By isolated i meant "insulated" of course, my English is not as good as i'd like...

robnyc

Update: after scrolling down to page 3 of HU Parameters I found the camera option thanks shotgun_banjo

steven1888

Did anyone figure this out yet? I'm having the same issue!!

sentralfyr

Just adding a picture of the different fakras

Just because i got a wrong one i got for the blue one.

as far as i know i should use one of the green ones,Correct????

lapd1989

Yes it is the green one. In the picture that you took, there is the dual green cable. That empty one is the backup cam.

lapd1989

And one more thing. You can always bust the housing of the fakra cable and just use the tip to plug it in. The metal tip

sentralfyr

Thanks alot lapd1989

So i can use this one?? and remove the housing?


Do you know what the last green is?

aznmode

BTW guys no need to turn off the car when enabling camera in the engineering menu. Just do a system reset instead of end. After the command reboots the camera will enable or whatever setting you've changed. I do this anytime I change anything in the engineering menu.