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As per title, Reverse Parking Camera - retrofit by Advanced In Car Technologies http://www.advanced-incar.co.uk/
A short while back I visited AICT at their workshop in Poole to have a reverse parking camera fitted, all genuine OEM parts and the high level system with moving guidelines.
Car in the workshop:
The installation was top-notch and very professional, which didn't really take very long - just a few hours from strip-fit-rebuild. All the cable wiring was 'behind the scenes' so to speak, following main looms and harnesses already in place from the boot handle all the way to behind the glovebox.
Although the fixed fittings side went seamlessly, we came to a halt on the coding side of matters
The new MQB chassis CAN hasn't yet been fully decoded by the user using VCDS (Rosstech), though other companies seem to think they have done the impossible and have locked the information away within coding dongles or more expensive diagnostics system VAG-CAN!!!!
AICT have had many many long talks with their sources over coding for the high level camera on the A3 chassis and we got together so they could use my car to resolve the coding issue.
(Remember, this isn't just a low-level camera wired straight to the screen, it interfaces with the car OPC and gives moving guidelines)
So, the question is, have they a coding solution to an A3 MQB issue?
YES Coding SOLVED!
Yesterday I opted to travel down to Tim and James again to further test coding and I think our faces were a picture in itself when reverse gear was selected and the camera image came to life!!
I was please to assist Tim and James and become their guinea pig for the first retro-fit reverse camera on the A3 MQB chassis and appreciate how they must have felt every time the '...computer says no...' scenario popped its ugly head.
Without any additional requirement to either configure or 'set-up' the camera it worked flawlessly and accurately.
In the above pic, you see a red line at the foot of the image - this is when you are "supposed" to get a steady tone from the OPC at 1 foot (I think it is) and it was SPOT-ON, as soon as we backed up to a car, the OPC markers were working on the overlay and as soon as the car "touched" the red line, the tone went steady.
Tim and James made a vid of the system in operation for their youtube channel and I imagine it will appear on there in good time. (I expect Tim to give a link here when it's ready)
5 star service from the boys and subsequent customers can rest assured the system is awesome.
Yes, opt for it at order stage on a new car, but we retrofit our cars because our choices and preferences change with time.
A short while back I visited AICT at their workshop in Poole to have a reverse parking camera fitted, all genuine OEM parts and the high level system with moving guidelines.
Car in the workshop:
The installation was top-notch and very professional, which didn't really take very long - just a few hours from strip-fit-rebuild. All the cable wiring was 'behind the scenes' so to speak, following main looms and harnesses already in place from the boot handle all the way to behind the glovebox.
Although the fixed fittings side went seamlessly, we came to a halt on the coding side of matters
The new MQB chassis CAN hasn't yet been fully decoded by the user using VCDS (Rosstech), though other companies seem to think they have done the impossible and have locked the information away within coding dongles or more expensive diagnostics system VAG-CAN!!!!
AICT have had many many long talks with their sources over coding for the high level camera on the A3 chassis and we got together so they could use my car to resolve the coding issue.
(Remember, this isn't just a low-level camera wired straight to the screen, it interfaces with the car OPC and gives moving guidelines)
So, the question is, have they a coding solution to an A3 MQB issue?
YES Coding SOLVED!
Yesterday I opted to travel down to Tim and James again to further test coding and I think our faces were a picture in itself when reverse gear was selected and the camera image came to life!!
I was please to assist Tim and James and become their guinea pig for the first retro-fit reverse camera on the A3 MQB chassis and appreciate how they must have felt every time the '...computer says no...' scenario popped its ugly head.
Without any additional requirement to either configure or 'set-up' the camera it worked flawlessly and accurately.
In the above pic, you see a red line at the foot of the image - this is when you are "supposed" to get a steady tone from the OPC at 1 foot (I think it is) and it was SPOT-ON, as soon as we backed up to a car, the OPC markers were working on the overlay and as soon as the car "touched" the red line, the tone went steady.
Tim and James made a vid of the system in operation for their youtube channel and I imagine it will appear on there in good time. (I expect Tim to give a link here when it's ready)
5 star service from the boys and subsequent customers can rest assured the system is awesome.
Yes, opt for it at order stage on a new car, but we retrofit our cars because our choices and preferences change with time.