playing video via external DVD question / parking brake Q

[XIS]

Quick question - when you are playing a video on your stock screen via an external DVD or iPod and the RCA jacks in the console, if you shift to reverse (and don't already have a back-up camera), does the screen go blank...ie - do you need the emergency brake on at all times?

My question is due to the wireless reverse camera I am installing. The camera gets power when the car is in reverse and the reverse lights are on. This transmits a signal to the receiver that is powered by a USB cord in the 12v socket and a video cord in the yellow RCA input/jack, which is supposed to switch your screen to AUX mode and display the camera's image. Am I going to need to tackle that emergency brake bypass thingy also? My goal was to not have to take apart the console/dash area to get to those wires,,,but if I have to, well then I have to.

If I do need to take it apart and ground that emergency brake sensor wire, I also see a minor and discrete carbon fiber material wrap simultaneously.



any and all help appreciated. If anyone has those old photos for the emergency brake mod, that would be awesome too.

[EXceptional]

Did you ever get this resolved ?

[XIS]

Thanks for the note. I have not pulled the trigger yet on doing the mod for the parking brake and the speed sensor yet. I have verified that you DO need to do both in my situation... The camera works with your foot barely touching the emergency brake, but as soon as you go about 2mph in reverse, the video feed shuts off and the screen says 'video will resume when vehicle stops'...

I am fairly confident that I can take everything appart and put it back together. I am just not sure which wire clip/plug has the wires that I need to cut and where that clip plugs into?? Is it the monitor screen or is it the CD/Radio?
I have read the few threads that still have some pictures, but once it gets to the wire cutting steps, I just cant tell for sure which plug it is that I need to be messin' with!

Any help from someone that has done this mod would be SO appreciated!

Happy New Year too!

[XIS]

Has anyone here done this mod???