P38A Laying a cable...

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Grrrrrr

Grrrrrr

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If I wanted to get a new cable from the dashboard to the rear bumper area, what's the easiest way that is still neat and tidy? Can I push it under the carpet and along the transmission tunnel and out behind the centre console?
 
dont need it
coax for video - reversing camera and sensors take feed from reversing lights. ground is easy and sensor warning and control box is mounted at rear.
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
dont need it
coax for video - reversing camera and sensors take feed from reversing lights. ground is easy and sensor warning and control box is mounted at rear.
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Not wireless. Need to get the feed up to the monitor on the dash and the trigger cable down to the reversing light loom. Planning on cameras front and rear.
 
Grrr - Mad Hat would appear to be correct as I am presuming your camera provides a standard video signal output, (hence the need for miniature coax cable - as suggested by MH), and the camera will then only require 12 volts and earth.

The most logical supply will be from one of the reversing light feeds, (I wouldn't expect your camera to be drawing too much current so it should not interfere with the lamp failure circuit - but stand to be corrected - as always), and you should find plenty of earth points close by!

You will then have a rear view camera that only operates when you are reversing - providing your reversing light switch, (XYZ), is operational of course.

Just for the record, however, the easiest route for cables, (from the front compartment back to the boot area), is via the edge of the vehicle, (simply pull off the inner plastic carpet/sill guards), and run your cables along there, (many of the vehicle cables are already situated in this natural valley - under the carpet).

Things get a tad more difficult in the rear compartment as you will need to pull the side cosmetic trim off and run the cable behind it.

I have only just reassembled my complete interior, seats and carpets - just about to start on the headlining.
 
I've run a few front to back for my LPG.

As has been said, just follow the loom back down the side of LHS of the car with all the other cabling. Pop up the plastic door trim and you'll see them all in there.

There'll be a good live feed (for if it does interfere with the blown bulb circuit thing) behind the LHS light cluster for the caravan electrics (for running a fridge I think), and you can get a feed for the reversing lights from the trailer electrics on the RHS.
 
Thanks chaps. Just what I needed to know. I assumed the cables went down the driver's side (to the RF receiver) so that's saved a mistake!

It is in fact a 4 wire cable I am fitting. CCD rather than CMOS camera. The power goes down from the monitor. There is a trigger cable that ties into the reverse light circuit but as it is only a trigger it shouldn't draw much. I'm fitting one on the front too so it'll default to the front and switch over to the rear when I stick it in reverse ... hopefully!
 
There's wires down the drivers side too!

And across the top, and through the whatjema, and round the bulkhead.

It's a Range Rover there are wires absolutely everywhere!
 
Further similar query: what's the easiest route out from the dash through the bulkhead into the engine bay? Can see several wiring looms going through but they seem really tight and I'm not sure where they come out behind the dash.
 
I took a couple of large cables from starter to a switch and back through with the heater hoses, just pocked them through from engine side then found them under dash, it was a quick fix on a campsite in Norfolk.
 
brianp38dse said:
I took a couple of large cables from starter to a switch and back through with the heater hoses, just pocked them through from engine side then found them under dash, it was a quick fix on a campsite in Norfolk.
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Thanks. I'll have a poke around.

do you know if I can poke a cable down between the dash and the windscreen?
 
There is an unused grommet you can use on the left hand side. It's used for the loom on LH drive cars. It's blanked off, but you can drill a hole in it to the size you need and pass your cables through. It's made of rubber. They'll come out behind the glove box somewhere. Easy peasy to pass them behind the gloxbox to wherever you need them. In the engine bay, they come through somewhere behind the EAS equipment.
 
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When I put my parking sensors in, I mounted the LCD display above the mirror (similar to MartynV8's) and ran the cable behind the edge of the headlining, simply pulled the door seals down fed the cable in past them, unpopping the A & B post covers and then ran it down inside the C post & behind the sub box, to the control box which I mounted next to the CD changer, handy for the NS.reversing light feed. Easy peasy. Depending where you want to put the camera screen, you could run the wire down the A post to the dash.
(Sorry - late post, just seen that you've got the rear ones done.)
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