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I have no experience with Amps in cars, just home theater so I may be completely missing the mark but the Xtrons unit I have has female phono adapters for speaker channels out in its loom. Could you connect those to your amp? Like I say, I have no idea what kind of inputs you have on the amp in the car.

The end of the line. All in and working correctly, engages with reverse, looks great. The missing link was another part of the head unit loom still being in my drawer rather than attached to the unit. On that loom? A video input labelled Reverse Cam In... I'm slow but I get there in the end. Thanks for all the help and suggestions everyone.

Finally managed to find an ingress point, two rubber grommets just below the bottom boot trim. No need to remove the trim or the screws at the bottom of the bumper, just pull the grommet in to the car, cut and feed the wire through then replace the grommet from inside. I pushed it all the way back out then used wire nosed pliers to pull the lip of it in to the interior. I ran the cable to the front the lazy way under the trim on the floor of the passenger side and through the dash to the back of the head unit. It works fine with my AVIN app but when I put it in reverse, still no picture. Still waiting for a response from Xtron support on that one.

Thanks for the tips Wingnut but I did put the "ATD 12v DC Power Relay For CANBUS Car Rear View Backup Reverse Camera" inline to feed the camera power so I think it's something else. It's deffo the PAL one too so I'm not sure what's going on. It works because the AVIN app shows a perfectly fine video feed, just not whatever app is jumping in when I put the car in reverse. I'm more concerned trying to route the cables as I will at least have a manual way of activating the reversing camera. I hate working on cars, everything is cramped and awkward to get to 🙂

Nice write up and photos Gaff, thanks. My own reversing camera saga continues as well. I got one that fits the number plate light and is basically a replacement clear plastic cover to go over the original fitting but with a camera attached. I managed to fit that without issue this time. I removed the entire fitment from the body (it's a clip on one side that holds it in to the body), fed the camera cables in to the hole and put the fitment back in. So far so good but now it all goes wrong. I can't find a way to get the cable from inside the bumper to inside the car. I've removed the bottom boot trim and found some promising looking holes but there's something between them and the space between the bumper stopping me from pulling the wires through. I think I'll need to get under the car and trace how the existing cables in the bumper get back in to the car. The second problem I have is that the head unit only shows a black screen when I put the car in reverse. If I run a built in app called AVIN on the head unit, I see the camera feed fine. I've got a ticket in to Xtron support for that one. I'll continue the updates if they're of any interest to anyone.

The superb one is online only and frankly not worth it, seems very incomplete to the old ones I was used to in print.

Nice one, thanks again Wingnut, you've been very helpful.

Right, I've rescued the light, had to undo three of the rear bumper torque screws and have a fish around. Still, all done now. I've ordered a custom light fit reversing camera and power relay from audiotech so I'll report back if I ever figure out how to fit it!

Thanks for that Wingnut, sadly the manual doesn't cover that kind of thing, guess they expect the owners to have more sense 😉I'll treat myself to a Haynes manual and see what's what before I do any more damage.

So being the ham-fisted fool I am I've managed to push one of the the number plate lights inside the body work 😧 The screws were stiff. I managed to get one undone and then pushing on to the other to get bite pushed it inside the bodywork. I wanted to get it out to have a measure up and make sure I get the right part. So the next question is how do I access the light fitting to push it back out? Is it a remove the bottom boot trim job or an underneath the car with a torch and a flexible wrist job?

Outstanding info, thanks again Wingnut! Nothing like speaking to the voice of experience when it comes to these things so thanks for sharing. Sounds like a bulb one rather than an LED may be the way to go as I'm not fussed about the light type, just want the camera really and I hate warning lights.

Thanks Wingnut! I'm busy eyeing up the Audiotech website now, I somehow hadn't found it. What would be the better option in your experienced opinion, a number plate light based reversing camera or one that is integrated with the boot handle?

I'm really looking forward to your write up on the DVR and especially rear parking camera as I'd really like to add one too! Which parking camera did you go for?

Hi Gaff, What a great write up! Excellent pictures and descriptions, I wish I 'd had this before I did mine. I had the same issue as you with the TPMS and the bluetooth, what fixed it for me was just using a different TPMS app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tpms3 Worked for me but I do hate the US flag on it 🙂 I have discovered something interesting when it comes to the maxidot integration. If I'm using the built in Radio or Music app, I get the Audio choice on my maxidot. If I use third party apps like Poweramp, I lose the Audio settings on the maxidot. I've yet to find a nav app that will pass through to the maxidot but I've only just figured out that it's app dependent so more experimentation is required here. I've added a 4G sim card to mine which seems to work well. I was surprised that the unit will only utilize the SIM for data and will not allow it to be used for calls or texts. I guess that's just my ignorance and unfamiliarity with the technology. Given my experience of the DAB so far, I'd say you're not missing much. I can't seem to get a solid signal out of it despite using the car's built in aerial. Speaking of the aerial, have you tried connecting to the car's GPS aerial rather than the soppy little one that comes with the unit? I was able to use the car's built in GPS antenna on my Superb and it locks on straight away and never seems to lose signal (barring tunnels). My ODB II is a bit flaky on the connection front but turning the dongle off and on again normally fixes it for me. One other thing you've probably already figured out but this unit has a microSD slot labelled GPS on the front. This is essentially just another SD card slot and can be used to store music, movies etc. It can even be formatted to be extra app space for the head unit should you need it. I'll be interested to hear about your ongoing journey with the unit, I'm still playing with and refining mine. I love it so far but as you have rightly said, the available documentation on these things is almost non existent. You've done a good job on adding to the knowledge here, thank you.

I'll be interested to hear how you get on! I'm still struggling to get a usable DAB signal on mine, I've tried ferrite cores and all sorts. It works about 70% of the time, certainly not as well as FM. Generally seems not worth the effort for DAB. The rest of the unit has been great, TPMS, Ignition, Igo for Nav and poweramp for music all running nicely on the Agama car launcher. I'm very happy with it overall.