A question of legality & morality re: rear vision

Wayne, I have a troopie thinking of doing the same, however on mounting the "camera" at back did you drill holes or what to secure and run cabling give us an idea on your set up....regards....Harro

Harris...my camera is mounted to my roof rack and the cable goes through the door seal, I just close the rear door on it all the time and I have no trouble whatsoever....no holes to drill, no damage to the troopy....cheers Phil

Harris,

Sorry to take so long to get back to you. 7 days in the Vic High Country

I have a roof rack on the Troopie all the time. There is a work light and the camera attached to the centre of the roof rack facing back.

The cables for the camera and the light are attached to the roof rack legs.The cables go to the front of the vehicle on the drivers side and I have run them into the top of the snorkel. They exit the snorkel just before the air cleaner cannister. A hole was cut in the rubber hose and then resealed around the cables.

I also have a GPS aerial attached to the pre cleaner on top of the snorkel. The cable for this also passes down the snorkel body. It is not very clear but there is a white dot on top of the snorkel in my rig photo, that is the GPS aerial.

This system works well and have used the same method on 3 vehicle now. This has the advantage that the cables don't have to pass through any holes or door seals, the down side is that the roof rack has to be on the vehicle, and in my case, the roof rack is on all the time.

Wayne

When your towing a trailer, van etc the law requires that you have clear view to the rear (both sides). To the rear doesn't mean 'down the sides' (only) as being adequate. Very few (if any) passenger related vehicles have adequate (standard) external mirrors for towing with. Owners will be required to fit wing/extension type mirrors. In conjunction with your camera, you shold be very reassured that no one should disappear into your 'blind spot' ('cos you won't have one.

Just as long as you have mirrors where you can see the rear corners of your van you are OK. Fitting a rear view camera does not allow you to get rid of the towing mirrors.

PeterD

Hi Dio & Disc1942.

On my first major trip I found that my blind spots were manifest. Maybe it was inattention or poor equipement on a combination of both....Big things crept up on me particularly on straight roads. I Don't think I am alone in this.

The loneger I extended the bonnet mounts to accommodate the vans rear corners the greater the vibration and the less "real vision" I had. The clip ons were useless as per previous post "peel back"

The Tv camera seems a technology thingo that solves all of these problems and offers attributes like improvement to indifferent (mine) reversing as well.

Regards
SKI'er

And that sounds perfectly legal to me!!!