I have an MX5 NC and want to install a rear view camera. I ordered one and got a camera with a specific plug. Example:
Is there anyone who has been able to get this cable through the grommets from the trunk to the lid, where existing cable is already located. If not, how have you solved it? Pictures would be very much appreciated!
I installed a reverse camera last year, fed the leads through the existing rubber grommets and sealed them with silicone. Ideally I needed some black sealant to make it look neater. Make a slit in the grommets and push the cables through, fiddly but easy enough.
No problems with water ingress?
No nothing getting in, I wash my car regularly more so than it getting wet naturally.
Just make sure the sealant gets in around cabling properly. There’s no other way really apart from drilling separate holes inserting grommets and then most likely for good measure sealing the same with silicone.
Hmm, that is a nice looking lead. But I expect inside you will find some very thin wires and an overall foil screen.
If I was doing this and could find a spare cable (unlikely) I’d make an experiment by cutting it and adding a few standard pre-wired connectors such that I could feed a set of three/four thin wires through the existing flexy umbilical.
I did this for two extra wires to my radio-linked reversing camera. With care and patience there is room for a thin coax too.
However, bear in mind that often in the multicore ‘video’ cables for reversing and security cameras the video is on just another ordinary wire inside the overall screen and not a coax - hence why I said experiment.
Adding just one more unscreened wire for the video and sharing the 0V wire for both video screen and power 0V might be OK for just half a metre. But it all depends on how the camera is designed to be used and where the 0V and video screen are combined.
My effort is shown here with pictures.
I did the same as Mick and agreed a bit fiddly getting the new cable in the grommet.
So got a sealant nozzle and applied silicon spray and teased it in. Cut the nozzle to size of the cable and fed it through. Then cut the nozzle apart and left the cable in situ, (obviously).
No leaks since installing.
