BMC2500

I would like to thank Purebred_mutt for his input on this subject. I have a 2016 Silverado LT 2500hd which did not come with the factory backup camera. I purchased what I thought was a plug and play backup camera through the dealer for $1000. Over the next year or so, I started to have a flashing on my infotainment screen followed by a black screen. After several trips to the dealer I was told "someone" had placed an aftermarket navigation system in my vehicle so it would not be covered by warranty. To make a long story short, the dealer did not fix my camera after 3 wks in the shop. I took it back to the branch where I bought it, 50 miles away, and they said the same thing as they told mutt, namely, if the truck wasn't born with the b/u camera, I was ****** outa luck. They were kind enough to offer to sell me a new truck with a backup camera for an astronomical amount of money. So it decided to try the obdgenie just to see if by some magic it would work. And it didn't. After searching the internet for hours, I found Mutts report and took the tailgate apart and crawled under the truck to see where these cables plugged in. I determined I was prewired for a camera by looking behind the glovebox in the front of the truck. I removed the aftermarket Nav/backup camera and plugged in a tailgate handle camera I bought from GM Nav and Integration Specialists into the 8 pin harness that Mutt described. Lo and behold, my backup camera worked! The one I purchased actually had the 2 wire harness that attached to the activator in my tailgate so the automatic tailgate locking function works. Had it not been for Mutt, I probably would have given up on getting a camera and just kept running into things when I backed up. I am glad he had the guts to ignore the stupid dealer and take matters into his own hands. I would like to kick both the dealers that I visited in their nuts(if they had any). How could they not know that a simple fix was available. I think they just don't care because they weren't going to make any warranty money off of my problem and just wanted to sell me a new vehicle. Thanks again Mutt. We need more people like you who won't just take someones word that a problem can't be fixed. Brian