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Volkswagen Touareg 2011-2017 backup Camera System
Volkswagen Touareg 2011-2017 backup Camera System
[VW-8012]

Price: $249  $199
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Date Added: 11/22/2013 by Stephen Scott
I got the kit in just about 5 days and did the install yesterday. It took me about 4.5 hours. Like the others, the most time consuming thing is fishing some of the cabling. The most time consuming was going through the rubber 6" cable cover above the rear lid to fish the cable from the camera. It must have taken me at least an hour to do it. The right angle connectors at each end, and the fact that the wires go through an even smaller opening inside the cable than is apparent from just looking at the rubber cover which is about 1" in diameter. You would think the entire cover would be open for receiving wires, but its not. I had a hard time finding the correct fish wire to use. I wound up using a piece of 12 gauge electrical wire, but 10 gauge would have been better. Fishing the cable from the back to the front was pretty smooth but I did loosen the front pillar airbag cover to run the cable down the last bit to the glove box. I ran the fish cable wire first from the back to the front, then hooked the cable on it and pulled it to the back where it connects to the camera cable. I found that removing the rear lid cover just involved some pulling to get it to release, and wasn't as delicate a job as you might think. The connections went fine. I placed the new box behind the head unit connections which are behind the glovebox. They used to be behind the Nav screen on the first model Touareg which I owned, but not anymore, they're a separate piece of hardware not physically connected to the Navi screen.

Thanks for everyone's help and insight. The camera works great!
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