Group buy: RVC low for Passat, Tiguan, Octavia?

[kamold]

Only info I've found is from briskoda forums. We are pretty much just going out on our own and trying this.
As the financial commitment is relatively small (time committment larger) this initially is for those willing to have a crack and maybe not get a favourable result (although I am fairly confident this will work fine).

If you prefer you can wait and see how the first attempts pan out and we can report back...

[tigger73]

I've already coded up my RCD510 for RVC. I get a blue screen when I select reverse - just waiting to fit the camera...

I think there's at least 3 interested so let's hit the button and get an order happening.

Actually if there is one other from Adelaide (myself, Transporter , ???) we can get an order shipped direct to Adelaide rather than going through Kamold in Sydney. Will save time and shipping costs.

That is as long as there are at least 2 others to make a second order for you Kamold...

[wingrove]

1 do you need the programming module or disk to setup the 510 and or calibrate it to the camera?

2 What actual car has the number plate / trunk handle positioned camera? passat cc is only the badge version right?

3 A little more info from anyone who's done this or perhaps some links to pics to see how much needs to be pulled apart?

4 does it interfere at all with the park assist 1/2 functions?

thx
jas

[Transporter]

All the info are in this forum, you just need to use the search function.

[kamold]

Hi Jas,
This thread is to test install this kit in a few cars. More information will be available maybe in a month or so once it has been done.

[wingrove]

ok thx. will be great to hear more.

[tonymy01]

You can get the radar screen to overlay the left side of the rvc by programming rvc into the ops section of iirc the body electronics. Most guides for fitting rvc only mention programming the nav/radio, and don't mention this extra bit to set if you have ops.

[tigger73]

OK. So I'm 3/4 way through installing the RVC. All cables are in. All I need to do is connect up power and reverse switch.... but need to know which wire is which.

Educated guess is

red/black: +12V
blue/black: reverse light
green/brown: 0V

If anyone has installed one of the AliExpress units and got it going please let me know....

Otherwise I'll let you guys know when I get it working.

[Transporter]

Just looking at the camera connector and there are red, yellow and brown wires so go by that. The yellow is the reverse light and red is the power on the camera connector.

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[tigger73]

OK so the RVC from our Chinese friends is in and working. I've got it hooked up to a near new RCD510 head unit and picture quality is reasonable.



Thanks for confirmation Transporter you were right - the red/black is 12V, brown/green was 0V and blue/black is connected into the reverse light to switch the unit on/off.

I connected the brown/green to the top of the hatch/boot, the red/black to the centre pin of the power socket in the boot (left side) and ran the blue/black to the right side to pick up the reversing light (as there were no reverse light wires accessible on the left). Things were made simpler for me as my reversing sensors were already connected in here and I just picked off the same wire as the reverse sensors were connected to.

Anyway so the units seem to work OK and for $120 (and a few hours pulling trims and running wires) it's a worthwhile investment.