Car Backup camera via Garmin GPS

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Has anyone installed a backup camera on their car with or without a trailer to get a safer rear view. I'm looking at a Garmin system that displays through the Auto Garmin Nuvi GPS I just purchased.
Apparently their's includes a sending unit that sends a wireless signal to the GPS and a 12 Volt hook up to the backup light wiring.
Is this easy to install or does it require professional installation. Is the display adequate?
Thanks for comments
 
There are a ton of backup cameras on the market. I have used several this said I have not tried a wireless unit. I install them in my work trucks the last one I purchased had the monitor built into a rear view mirror it mounted to the existing mirror and the camera mounted to the license plate screws. Very easy to install. Some the best deals I have seen lately is from Walmart on line very cheap cameras!
 
Thanks, I just bought a Garmin auto GPS and noted it has compatibility with the wireless back up camera Garmin sells so it is a cheap way to go.
 
Some of the cameras are powered by the backup lights, so they aren't ON most of the time we drive. It's easy to find another power source and have another "mirror" back there. Problem is, some of the cameras aren't intended for continuous duty, and don't last long used that way. The instructions should contain a warning about that...I think... I haven't read instructions or installed one of those cameras, but I have heard of premature failures when used full time.
 
JD is corect many of these cameras are sugested to be powered from the reverse light this way when it powers it send a signal to activate the camera view. However this doesn't mean the camera is capable of continuous use at least while driving. I have had two commercial trucks with no rear windows that I installed back up cameras the displayed on the rear view mirror which on these trucks the mirror had to be added we wired them to cme on with the key so it always provided a rear view similar to what you would seen if there actually was a rear window.My new trucks have windows so I have a least one of these setups in a box somewhere in case the next truck needs it point being they lasted for years and still work and they were always on these were cheap cameras less then $200 with the mirro monitor. If the Garmin is somewhat inexpensive i would go for it. My new car has two cameras in the front bumper one on the dash and one on the rear cameras with become standard in ever car soon.
 
https://youtu.be/gIZtP0iQQw4 the dash camera even has a data logger which records to an SD card in the glove box very cool!
this is a sample I'm looking forward to taking it to the track for some fun!
 
My security cameras have been on continuously for over a decade. I've upgraded some and put the old ones on my windowless van. I have two that look toward the right side and three that look back as if I had a rear view mirror and a switch that also changes the rear view downward to look at the trailer hook-up. They're all wired and connect to three screens. They run off the van batteries.
 
Sounds vantastic , Charlie. I suspect some of you guys fly the black helocopters too!

I love the standard back-up cam and rear proximity alarms on my Jeep GC , like every newer car will have before long if not now. But there are a lot of times I'd really like to have the other cams you guys have sprouting all over.

I'd like to be able to menu-option toggle off the constant proximity alarm when backing with a trailer, and I'm surprised the vehicle mfgrs. themselves don't seem to offer an option of a cabled or wireless cam to attach to the aft end of a trailer and view on the factory in-dash nav screen.
 
Sandy, my stock 2013 Honda Pilot Touring has three reverse cameras. One is called "normal", looking behind, push enter on the dash while in reverse and it switches to "wide" which gives you a fish-eye with more of your surroundings (haven't figured out the usefulness of this quite yet, other than maybe backing out of a parking spot, but by the time the camera can show you anything, the guy doing 30MPH down the parking lot lane has already smacked you), and then there's the third camera, which is actually mounted up high and looks straight down on the bumper and the trailer hitch. My only point is, manufacturers are getting more aware of how to best use cameras in a way that consumers can actually use them.
 
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