Installing a parking/rear camera

What year are you looking at?

I DIYd mine. I reckon it cost me €50 all in and a good few hours labour.

Alba Automotive can also retrofit one for you, check for pricing.

Hi Colm, was it a complete kit you got? I mean camera, cables etc and screen? Or did you intergrate in into the existing system camera and cables only?

It was an almost complete kit I got, so it came with

camera itself which replaces the boot switch

electrical wiring for the camera which I connected to the wiper motor

AV cable that runs to the glovebox from the camera

what it didn’t come with was the pins you need to add to the multi plug on the back of the headunit in the glovebox. I ended up buying a patch cable from VW to solve this, but you can actually buy the correct adaptor for a few € online and saves you a lot of money and hassle.

You also need to enable rear view camera on the headunit. I did this with obdeleven.

Thank Colm. I presume you used the wiper motor for power supply, and the vehicle was from the VAG Range? And you integrated it into the existing factory set-up?

Well done !!! 😀

Oh yeah, sorry!

yeah I used the original screen and used the wiper as power.

car is a 15 Octavia.

Ask Skoda a price to fit an OEM model - it may not cost much more than an aftermarket one fitted. Just so you know where you stand price wise.

If you decide to go with aftermarket - what ever you do turn off the guidance lines. It's very unlikely they're be correct, and will actually mislead you as opposed to help. The OEM cameras are calibrated in the factory for every single car, so the reversing lines match up exactly where your car should go.

Plus Skoda tend not to fit them anyway, they'll refer you to a 3rd party that they use for installations, at quite a price.

This thread is 2 years old start a new one. Price depends on car and who does the install.