We've Wired in a Dashcam! - Autovox V5 Pro | Transit Van Conversion E05
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- *We wanted to install a reversing camera into our Transit van conversion as it's quite long, around 7 metres! In the end we decided to go for a front and back dashcam, and install the Autovox V5 Pro, that has those features and more. Glad we did.
We went through a few different options before eventually settling on the Autovox V5 Pro as we wanted something where the LCD screen is built into an OEM style rear view mirror (as our van didn't have a mirror already).
In this video we install the Autovox V5 Pro into our van conversion and hard wire it into our fuse box, before drilling our first hole into the bodywork (yikes!) to custom mount the rear camera under the third brake light.
The setup is working really well (once we could get the screen to stay stuck without falling off!) and makes driving much better, as the mirror now works just like a normal rear view mirror... great!
Thanks for watching! Leave us a comment if you have any ideas, we'd love to hear them!
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↠ Autovox V5 Pro Dashcam - geni.us/wGsGA (Amazon)
↠ AstroAI Multimeter - geni.us/00Q41T (Amazon)
↠ EvoStik Rear View Mirror Glue - geni.us/r3Lh1 (Amazon)
↠ VHB Tape - geni.us/MdJe (Amazon)
↠ Sikaflex 522 - geni.us/GS8kmy (Amazon)
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↠ Bosch Cordless Drill - geni.us/jFvH (Amazon)
↠ Heat Gun - geni.us/JSqOKBM (Amazon)
↠ Trim Tools - geni.us/zTTfSO (Amazon) - So handy, we seem to have a use for these on every project!
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Sooooo, I’ve discovered your channel in prep for a van conversion and all I can say is WOW!!! The detail you go into is insane and sooooo helpful! Honestly, best series I’ve found!!
When utilizing CZcams for help it’s so important to hear the lessons learned and best practices and your channel is full of this! So excited to work my through the series!
Here is a great example of what sets your channel apart…. I watch this video….. yes I need this component!! I go on to Amazon and start working through the reviews….. and there you are (I recognized the camera and wire placement on the photo you uploaded) with the most detailed Amazon review I have ever seen 🤣🤣 Not only helping the community in CZcams but sharing the love with Amazon as well ☺️☺️
Only 3 years late to this series but Keep doing what you’re doing!!!
Thank you very much, and glad you've discovered our channel! We like to get in as much detail as possible and try to find the right balance to be helpful but still keep it flowing. It's tricky sometimes as there's so much research that goes into each project!
And yeah haha well spotted, we felt like leaving a good review as we had great customer service from them and we like the camera. Still going strong today! We actually use it predominantly as a rear view mirror, and are so used to having it now that I'm not sure what we'd do without it! 😃
Good luck with your conversion 🙂👍
Its 2024 and Im about to begin this journey so nice to watch such detailed work to guide me
Cool, hope it goes well! 🙂👍
So useful, thank you! Best van conversion channel on youtube
No problem, and cheers! 🙂
Good to see a truly decent young couple working together. You are few and far between.
That's nice of you to say, thanks very much. It's a big project so working together helps 🙂
This was very helpful as I am about to buy my first van. My main concern was changing lanes on the motorway, is anyone there. One of these would be most beneficial. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome, glad it was helpful. Yeah we use it as a rear view mirror 99% of the time and it works perfect for that, wouldn't do without it! Good luck with your van 👍
Great video, loving watching your progress! Can’t wait for the next update!
Thank you!
Cracking honest vlog buddy and thanks for sharing!
No problem! Thanks for watching 🙂
Well done
Thanks 😁
Love the video. You're considerably braver than I am, especially digging into the Vans electrics. You would never know you've never done anything like this before. Nice job!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)
Thanks guys! Very thorough and helpful. Just ordered one and I have a new Ford transit 350 in the states.
No problem, glad it was helpful, hope the install goes well! 🙂
Awesome video guys. Nice Autovox tech
Thanks, yeah we're not sure how we would live without it now, we love having the live feed out the back when driving :)
Couldn't work out where the earth wire went til I spotted your negative probe of multi meter - thanks!
No problem, glad it was helpful 🙂
I've just got one of these having had the strap on variety in my last car. From experience I would advise that the GPS is best left under the pillar trim cover as they tend to cook and malfunction when exposed to direct sunlight on hot days. Mine worked just as well under the trim.
Thanks for the heads up, we'll keep it in mind 🙂
Only cheap ones 🤔 my GPS antenna has been on the windscreen for 14 years and still works fine 👍
Im using the original antenna fitted when my ambulance was first converted in 2007, buy decent, buy once 👍
Hi guys. I'm loving your videos - I'm doing a van build in the exact same van as you.
Can you tell me which number fuses you used for the constant and switched live for the add-a-fuses please.
I put mine in what I thought were OK and I've been having so many issues with the central locking since. The van seems to lock and unlock itself at random now !!
I pulled out the fues taps and its all OK now so I need to know which fuses are best to use.
Hey, you can just see the fuses we tapped into here: czcams.com/video/Yx5wxJqbRls/video.htmlsi=YMuucyyFpXSS6ZWG&t=359. I believe it's F29 and F35 in the passenger fuse panel. Glad you're enjoying the videos 🙂
Love the video. Very well done guys and the only one I could find of an English transit van.
Question: how and wot app do I need to set this up
Thanks, hope it was useful 🙂 There's no app for it actually, all the setup is done on the unit itself (it has a touch screen and a settings menu). Not much in the way of setup needed either, we just set some basic things like the length of recording, whether we wanted audio or just video, metric/imperial units, that kind of thing. And you can view any videos/photos taken by the camera on the screen itself, but to get anything off it you need to take the SD card out and put it into a computer.
I need to install mines.
Good luck with the install!
Hi, would be interested to know the make of temperature sensor you mentioned in the video. Great video by the way.
Hi Patrick, no problem, we have these: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08DL5NN58/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1. There's two in a pack. They work well with the apps Sensor Blue and ThermoPlus and have pretty good bluetooth range. Our one criticism of them is that the battery life is a little on the short side, I'd say it lasts 6-8 weeks. Works well though, you just need to sync the data and export from the app periodically as when you change the battery, once the app resyncs it loses all the previous history. Glad you enjoyed the video! 🙂
Hey Tim!
I wired one of those into my Toyota Yaris last year and listening to the "power-on-chime" as well as looking at the display, my BOSCAM unit is just a relabeled Autovox unit. Pressing the buttons on mine after it powers up switches to GPS speed indicator on the left side, pressing once more turns it off. Does yours react the same way?
Beware that wiring the unit into the permanent 12V source on the fuse panel will draw current in standby mode as well (not just while recording after the car was "bumped"). I did install a 128GB card and also removed it to check the actual recordings - pretty usable material actually, and it records from both front and rear camera! Perfect for cutting trip-videos on YT!
It's a pity, that Ford does not use standard "DIN" style radio cutouts in the dash - the Chinese twin DIN size radio units offered on eBay are Android OS based and actually offer camera inputs and standard radio, DAB, USB, video, navigation, bluetooth, etc. all in one unit. I just ordered one for our new Crafter to replace the factory unit.
Nice install and video - very exciting watching your progress!!
Best regards from Germany,
Volker
Hey Volker! Glad you enjoyed the video :) Yes I think they're the same company or at least connected, as I needed to email them and they have BOSCAM in their reply signature also. Ours doesn't have any physical buttons but you can turn on 'driving mode' which has the direction compass and speed visible, and tap to turn it off. We've wired it in permanently but if you can believe the specs it has built in low power protection, so should automatically stop drawing power once the battery voltage falls below 11.6V. We haven't had it long enough to vouch for whether that works correctly or not yet, though!
Yeah we're pretty happy with the quality of the recordings, looking forward to be able to take the van somewhere with some nice scenery to make the most of it! Lots to do before then... :)
Remember for your trips to Europe that in some countries it is illegal to have a dashcam.
Yeah cheers we'll do some research of all the countries we drive through 🙂👍
Great video! How does the rear camera do at night when it's real dark and you have headlights behind you? Do the headlights mess up the picture real bad?
Hey, thanks! We haven't noticed any problems with it at night on the road, we basically use the camera as a rear-view mirror. In fact that's what its main use is now, and you'd have to remind us it's actually a camera sometimes. It's so useful having it there and it just blends in like it was the original mirror. The quality is really good, it's obviously a bit more grainy at night but when lights are shining around it does a pretty good job in our opinion 👍
Hey when you guys put in your rear speakers can you let me know what wire you tap into? Great job by the way!
Cheers! And by speakers do you mean the reverse camera trigger wire? As we don't have any extra speakers at the back, although that would be cool 😛 We used the reverse light wire for that signal feed, which was the green and brown wire going to our rear light cluster. You can see it a bit more in the video here: czcams.com/video/Yx5wxJqbRls/video.html. HTH!
@@SelfBuiltStories No. I thought to ask if you guys were going to install the rear speakers. I have a Transit with no rear speakers and will be installing them. Thanks.
@@RONJON46331 Ah ok! Nope wasn't aware of that but yeah, no rear speakers, we'll have our own bluetooth speakers inside the van 👍
Hey man, love the video!
I also have a 2016 transit custom so I got myself a camera but my fuse box is different to yours so I’m a bit stuck… has anyone done one of these???
Glad you enjoyed it! Every vehicle will have a slightly different fuse box, you just need to find either a spare unused slot or something that you can piggy back off that is non-critical, and then use the a fuse tap. In the manual or on a sticker near the fuse box it should tell you what all the different fuses are so you can find a suitable place to tap in.
@@SelfBuiltStories Hey man, thanks for getting back to me. Having a nightmare with mine, managed to install everything but the final connection is the issue, had to get a triple tooth fuse adaptor but doesn't fit for some reason, .. so its currently all in place in need of power. Ive contacted the manufacture but no joy, also cant find an installer to help as they only supply and fit... woops....
@@jonnylee2479 not heard of that kind of adapter, do you mean a piggyback/add-a-fuse/fuse tap? With ours the one issue we ran into was that there are different sizes of blade fuses and we initially had the wrong size adapter with the camera kit
@@SelfBuiltStories Yeah thats the one ;-) That must be the problem Im having with mine, it looks identical to the original fuse but doest fit. I was so excited to get it all working haha, ill get there x Thanks for replying much appreciated
@@jonnylee2479 have you double checked you have the exact fuse type adapter you need? uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=ideas-and-advice/car-fuses-guide#Car_Fuse_Sizes. Our camera kit came with one for low profile mini fuses, but our transit uses the normal mini kind. Same body size, but pin length is different, didn't even notice till we came to install it. Autovox customer service were great and said they would send us any adapter we needed, ended up getting one ourselves on Amazon and they covered the cost for it 🙂
Great video thanks. Can you tell me if the mirror is easily disconnected from the cable/window bracket as I am getting a van that will have the Remis blinds that pull upwards from bottom to top of window and I would need to take it off at night? Is that possible do you think. Cheers
Cheers! Hmm interesting, well the cable would disconnect fairly easily, there's a connector a little bit along the wire from the mirror, which we have tucked under the headliner. So you would need to pull a bit of the cable down to access it, or just have a bit more slack when it's installed so that the connector is still accessible without having to pull it down from the headliner. And for the mirror itself, it slides on pretty easily onto the bracket on the window. But there is a tiny screw on it that you tighten up to pull it more into the bracket. You could probably get away with not doing that each time, as we didn't actually realise it was there at first and didn't tighten it down. The problem we had was the bracket kept falling off the widow because of the weight of the mirror (our van didn't have a mirror bracket installed from the factory annoyingly). But after 4 attempts and trying several different glues, it's stayed up for a long time now! 😀
@@SelfBuiltStories that’s great info thanks very much
@@tonyflanagan5682 You're welcome :)
And how do you know which way is the right way to put the fuse in?
If you mean the actual blade fuse itself, it doesn't matter as they're not directional. But if you mean in relation to a fuse tap/add-a-fuse piggyback adapter then you want to put that in so that each of the two circuits is individually and separately fused. Which way that is depends on which side is the hot/+12v feed in your vehicle fuse box, which you can check with a multimeter. HTH 🙂
hi there great video...i am fitting my autovox v5 pro today the live & sw live was the same as yours but the fuse wire cables conectors did not fit my fuse board (too short) think i will have to ask the suplyer if he has the right ones for a 2015 transit custom...where did you put your ground ?...keep up the good work.
Thanks! We couldn't use the included fuse tap connectors as the ones in the box were the low profile mini size and our Transit uses regular mini. Autovox customer service was pretty great though, sent them an email about it and they said they would sent the correct size for free, or seeing as we wanted it faster we bought some from another seller and they refunded us the cost 🙂 for the ground we used a bolt that was underneath the driver side door cup holder, which was convenient as the wires went from there, under the steering wheel and to the fuse box. Enjoy, we wouldn't be without the camera now!
@@SelfBuiltStories what year is your transit ?
It's a 2017 MK8 Jumbo High Roof
@@SelfBuiltStories fitted mine but the reversing camera cable isnt long enough? but your van looks much longer than mine did you have to buy a rev camera extension lead?
The main wire that runs from the mirror unit to the camera at the back of the van was long enough, but yeah the small red reverse light trigger wire came up a little short to get from the top of the van down to the light cluster. It's in the video but we just crimped on a small extension to it. Since this video we've put the camera wires inside some plastic conduit too as we had that small red wire (which is pretty fragile) get cut on the metal of the van while we were pulling some other wires through. Fortunately autovox sent us a replacement for free which was great 😀
Did you need a extension cable to fit the camera as its a long van
The main wire bundle was just long enough to reach from the dashcam to the reverse cam which was nice, the only thing we had to do was crimp on a small extra bit of wire to the reverse light trigger wire 👍
Thank you I have a transporter so it should fit then hopefully 🙏
No problem, good luck 👍🏻🙂