Suburban OEM rear view camera installation *help*

[DRayson]

2013 suburban, adding an OEM rear view camera.

after removing the piece that the camera mounts to, I’m not quite sure how the camera is supposed to be attached, I will obviously need to cut out enough to fit the camera in there. What I’m not sure of is how the camera attaches to the plastic. There are no threaded holes/ clips in/ on the camera housing

 

[Big Mama]

I’m not much help here but others will chime in. Welcome to the forum from Virginia.

 

[kbuskill]

2013 suburban, adding an OEM rear view camera.

after removing the piece that the camera mounts to, I’m not quite sure how the camera is supposed to be attached, I will obviously need to cut out enough to fit the camera in there. What I’m not sure of is how the camera attaches to the plastic. There are no threaded holes/ clips in/ on the camera housing

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You have to cut out the hole for the camera and then drill 4 holes to align with the 4 posts you see on your bracket.

Once those posts are through the holes you drilled they get melted and pushed down/spread out... kind of like a rivet but it is actually plastic welding.

This is a pic from when I swapped my factory camera for my Kenwood camera...

Sorry, not the best pic but you can see what I'm talking about at least.


Finished pic.

 

[DRayson]

You have to cut out the hole for the camera and then drill 4 holes to align with the 4 posts you see on your bracket.

Once those posts are through the holes you drilled they get melted and pushed down/spread out... kind of like a rivet but it is actually plastic welding.

This is a pic from when I swapped my factory camera for my Kenwood camera...
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Sorry, not the best pic but you can see what I'm talking about at least.
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Finished pic.

thank you very much, got the camera installed and partially ran. Waiting for camera cable extension now. For an oem camera with harness for “full size gm suv” you’d think the wires would be long enough. I prefer oem when I can and found a company MVI that uses an oem camera with wiring to go to an aftermarket head unit. If I were to do it again I’d just get an aftermarket to put in its location. $240 and the damn wires aren’t even long enough. Plus, they hardwired the camera to the 15ish’ of wire which made re-installing the hatch piece a lot of fumbling around with all that wire on there.

 

[DRayson]

I’m not much help here but others will chime in. Welcome to the forum from Virginia.

Not so far away, PA here. Actually picked the burb up in Virginia