Hd Colorful Ccd Car Rear View Camera for E60 E61 E70 E71 E72 E82 E88 E84 E90 E91 E92 E93 1 3 5 X5 3 Series 5 Series X1 X5 X6 320i 335i

Looking for E39 rear backup camera and I landed on this one and I'm glad I did. This one fits and the camera quality is good. I was able to run the wire no problem.

Old BMWs (pre 2012) tend to lack a head unit that includes a back up camera. Adding an aftermarket bluetooth emulator/car play device like Mr12volt really brings the old tech up to date. If using an emulator, this is a relativly straighforward install. Connect the rca yellow cable to the rca yellow input on the mr12volt, run power and trigger from mr 12 volt to the camera on a seperate power line. Connect the black wire off the camera to the chassis as a ground, then the red to the power you ran from mr12v dash to trunk. Then take the trigger line you ran with the power and tap into the brake light (in my case #4 on wire harness black and violet 2008 E93 M3) to trigger the reverse light (this is on a manual that cant use the canbus). Tuck and zip tie wires along the trunk frame to the pivot point on the convertable top and you are good to go. Picture quality is 480p but all I needed. The fit is just fine, may take some fiddling to get it to work. As others have said gluing the rubber cover keeps it on there, but may not be needed, If you do decide to glue be sure you dont get a bunch of glue dried around the edges as that may impact the fit during install.

Fits into the factory trunk latch perfectly. Has a relatively decent angle with minimally obstructed view area. If you get noise in your video, it's likely you tapped into your reverse lights and are running LED bulbs. Either add a 32v 1000uF low ESR capacitor, or get a line noise reducer and watch the noise disappear.If you've tapped into your reverse lights, or any other source of power, then don't worry about the red pigtail at the RCA input by the head unit; this is an optional way to send power to the camera if you haven't powered it through other means. Alternatively, you can use this pigtail to send power to the camera should your head unit support it.

I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the box and noticed the camera came with a 12v relay. It may be needed depending on your set up because BMW e90's reverse light doesn't exactly run on 12v, and that causes a lot of problem with backup camera installs. It did not come with any wiring instructions, though.Like everyone said on all these aftermarket trunk release camera: the silicone sleeve comes off the plastic handle very easily. I ended up siliconing it to the plastic handle, making it harder to come off. However, it still did not fit 100% into the OEM trunk handle hole. Part of the silicone sleeve still sticks out versus fitting snug inside the hole. May cause slight water-leak issue.The part I hate the most is that the cables are not designed for you to pass it through the rubber channel from the trunk lid into the car body. Since the channel is so tightly spaced, only the male end of the 4-pin connector will have any chance of passing through. The male end is directly connected to the trunk handle/camera itself, and it is too short to even reach the opening of the channel. Even if you try to force the other cable (which has the female end of the 4-pin connector) through the channel, there's a huge black splitter that was maybe just 6 inches from the female end, and it certainly will not go through the channel either.They only have to make the male end maybe 2 feet longer. They know to put a relay inside the package, but they decided to skimp on cable length for a perfect installation. It's rather disappointing.

Never got a chance to see the picture. It fit fine in the space and I was surprised it still had the button inside.Onto the 1 star review... They obviously did 0 R&D on putting this is an e92 because the connector will not fit through the factory pass through from the lid to inside the trunk. The tube is simply too small for the giant 4 pin connector they use. Do yourself a HUGE favor and don't waste your time with this one. The connector WILL NOT FIT.Hopefully enough people will not buy this to screw up their penny pinchers that chose the bulky connector to save a few bucks. 👍What is your explanation for my picture? How could you have installed this? I can't push the weather tight pass through back in and on top of that the wire is about a foot short like others have said.

This camera also came with a rely as a extra gift which. Camera clarity is great. The install was easy. I wish I went here first vs going to eBay. L

You can actually see the refresh rate. My car is a 2008 m3 with ccc so the screen isn't the best and while I didn't expect 4k, the visible "refresh rate" or video pulse is kind of annoying. I exhausted all my grounding options and I am certainly using a relay. Speaking of relay. The one they sent was DOA. I happened to have a spare from another car audio job on another car and viola, it worked. Spent countless hours trying to narrow down the problem. The trunk release/camera piece doesn't fit the trunk really well. Going to have to trim. I also have a carbon fiber trunk (FWIW).All in all, not impressed. Got it because I upgraded to mr12volt module to add car play/android auto to the head unit. Instructions are poor and quality of the relay non existent.I'll tolerate it for now. But I may upgrade to a better screen later on and a higher resolution camera.

The reasons I chose this camera is the fact that I don't need to drill holes & it uses CCD technology. My aftermarket MMS Bremmen Android for E60 has an RCA port for CCD. The 1st image is the camera shot that is pretty good but images all depends with the MMS that is being used. To help other bimmer owners for the installation of this camera, if your MMS has an allocated port for CCD & 12 Vdc - the yellow connection for audio that has the red wire pigtail along with is for 12 Vdc power if your MMS supports it. If you have it, there is no need to connect the black & red wire at the camera end. Guidelines on the image is from my MMS and picture is adjustable with other options on the left side of screen.