Retrofit parking camera

phoenix7_2

thank you, that's interesting as I didn't realise they only operate in reverse (makes sense). May I ask which camera you have as this subject is all very new to me.
Thank you again for all your help
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AdrianC

phoenix7 wrote: »

One more question if I may, as the camera is most likely down by the number plate do you find the image you receive in your rear view mirror is vastly different than the one you would normally get from a standard rear view mirror looking straight out the back window...?

You'd hope so, otherwise it'd be pointless to have it.

phoenix7_2

thankfully daveyjp treats my questions with respect and understands what I mean. Maybe, as you also like to be sarcastic, you should start conversing with Strider590 and then you can both amuse each other with your snide remarks.

Strider590

phoenix7 wrote: »

Surely if you can only reply in a sarcastic manner it would be better not to reply at all.
One of those things, as you call it, is a superb little vehicle for my needs and it's only failing is the poor visibility at the back as anyone who has sat in the driving seat will tell you. I can manage perfectly well under normal circumstances but when trying to reverse out of supermarket parking it is the idiot public who walk straight across I am trying to avoid.
Thank you to everyone else who has had the decency to reply in the friendly & helpful manner this forum is known for, what a shame you felt you had to spoil things.

There's your issue, reverse park and the problem goes away.

When your reversing out of a space you have to watch the back and the front, which creates gaps where your not looking in one or the other direction, this is how pedestrians get run over in car parks, it's also how people reverse and swing their front end into the car next to them.

When you reverse into a space you have more control, you only need to watch the back and then when you leave you can see what's coming and not need to look the out the back at all.

These "idiotic public" have the right to walk where they want, it is you that has to give way.

A camera is only going to show what's directly behind your car at the moment when you look at it, it's not going to show you what's about to be behind your car as your reversing.

Effectively you'll then have to look out the front AND at the screen AND turn around to look out of the rear quarter lights to make sure nothing is about to come past.

phoenix7_2

Having the last word isn't the same as being right.......


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phoenix7_2

Thank you to daveyjp for all your help. I now know what I am looking for and have found it.
So refreshing when intelligent & courteous members answer questions.


What a shame whoever moderates this forum doesn't stop the sarcastic members from getting their kicks by belittling people.
There is no such thing as a stupid question - only stupid answers.

societys_child

Oh dear, you set yourself up for some sarcasm when you wrote:

when trying to reverse out of supermarket parking it is the idiot public who walk straight across

Don't the "idiot public" have a right to walk across the car park?

You could have fitted a reversing beeper or a voice recording "warning Vehicle reversing" to let "the idiot public" know you have trouble reversing your vehicle . . .

phoenix7_2

maybe I didn't explain properly but no, idiots don't have a right to walk where they please. Responsible people who look, mothers who have their small children under control, people who don't have their dogs on the full length of an extending lead, they have every right.
I think best if this thread is now closed.

AdrianC

phoenix7 wrote: »

maybe I didn't explain properly but no, idiots don't have a right to walk where they please.

I think you might find that pedestrians DO have priority in car parks, especially when it comes to starting to emerge from a parking space.

I think best if this thread is now closed.

I really hope your attitude here doesn't extend to your driving. If it does, then we may have identified the root cause of the problems.

Strider590

OP you call sarcasm, but this is a money saving forum and my advice was the cheapest solution.

I figure that if I can reverse a Vauxhall Vectra, which has a post box for a rear window plus a 2ft overhang (boot and bumper), without the need for parking sensors and reversing cameras, then you may merely require some brush up lessons in reversing.

It's no different to me doing track days and learning advanced car control when I first started driving a rear wheel drive high performance vehicle (one without any of the modern driver aids, not even ABS). I didn't have to do it, but a vehicle is a big lump of metal, a rolling machine of death and if you don't know how to control it, then learning is the responsible choice and ego should never stand in the way of that.

My GF, when we met couldn't reverse at all, I had to swap seats in car parks if reverse parking was required, we couldn't drive down narrow lanes in case something the other way and she was petrified of doing anything to her car (checking fluid levels, tyres, etc).

Now 3 years on, she can parallel park and reverse park like a champ, she checks her car over every week and 9 months ago she changed her own car battery.

Technology should supplement learning, not replace it.....