2007 Nbs Silverado Reverse Signal Wire Location?

jdugas · October 16, 2007

Anyone know where to find the Reserve Signal Wire in the 2007 Nbs Silverado? I am going to be installing a backup camera and hook it into an Avic-Z2 but do not know where to find this wire.

TIA!

bruffinit · October 17, 2007

Remove your taillight and locate the reverse light bulb. One of the 2 wires will be hot and can be verified by using a light tester while the reverse lights are activated. I have the Z1 and love it.

I put an LED light bar under the tailgate. It has driving, turn signal, brake lights. It was a matter of pulling out the taillight to find the appropriate wires.

Good luck!!

jdugas · October 17, 2007

Remove your taillight and locate the reverse light bulb. One of the 2 wires will be hot and can be verified by using a light tester while the reverse lights are activated. I have the Z1 and love it.

I put an LED light bar under the tailgate. It has driving, turn signal, brake lights. It was a matter of pulling out the taillight to find the appropriate wires.

Good luck!!

Thanks for the tip! I will give that a shot.

mljenkins · October 17, 2007

Anyone know where to find the Reserve Signal Wire in the 2007 Nbs Silverado? I am going to be installing a backup camera and hook it into an Avic-Z2 but do not know where to find this wire.

TIA!

If you have the trailering package, then you will have a 7-pole connector on the back for the trailer. Splice into that harness under the truck. I forget what color wire it is under there, but you can figure that out by looking at the cover on the trailer wire connector and it has a diagram of the pins. Find the pin, find the wire on the back of that pin, and away you go. That was how I did it, as it was much cleaner than getting in around the tail lights. Plus much easier to fix if something went wrong.

Speaking of back up cams, I saw some Silverados at quarter horse congress in Columbus that had backup cameras installed from the factory/dealer (I presume they were '08s, but I could only glance before my wife dragged me off). The cameras were in the tail gate handles, and the tail gate handles had locks on them. I was wondering if there was an option available for the '06 where I could replace my tailgate handle with one that had the camera and lock in it. I ended up mounting my backup camera near the tailgate handle on my truck a year ago because I found that was the best place for it, so apparently some engineer got the same idea.

Matt

jdugas · October 17, 2007

Anyone know where to find the Reserve Signal Wire in the 2007 Nbs Silverado? I am going to be installing a backup camera and hook it into an Avic-Z2 but do not know where to find this wire.

TIA!

If you have the trailering package, then you will have a 7-pole connector on the back for the trailer. Splice into that harness under the truck. I forget what color wire it is under there, but you can figure that out by looking at the cover on the trailer wire connector and it has a diagram of the pins. Find the pin, find the wire on the back of that pin, and away you go. That was how I did it, as it was much cleaner than getting in around the tail lights. Plus much easier to fix if something went wrong.

Speaking of back up cams, I saw some Silverados at quarter horse congress in Columbus that had backup cameras installed from the factory/dealer (I presume they were '08s, but I could only glance before my wife dragged me off). The cameras were in the tail gate handles, and the tail gate handles had locks on them. I was wondering if there was an option available for the '06 where I could replace my tailgate handle with one that had the camera and lock in it. I ended up mounting my backup camera near the tailgate handle on my truck a year ago because I found that was the best place for it, so apparently some engineer got the same idea.

Matt

That will be nice if they release a part number for those handles like they do for the current locking tailgate handles... For now, I am going to copy rex-r-us (http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=65404&st=0) and put it into the tailgate top cover. If they release the handle with the camera embedded, I will probably order a new tailgate cover and the new handle with the camera in it.

rhtsooner · April 15, 2009

TIA!

If you have the trailering package, then you will have a 7-pole connector on the back for the trailer. Splice into that harness under the truck. I forget what color wire it is under there, but you can figure that out by looking at the cover on the trailer wire connector and it has a diagram of the pins. Find the pin, find the wire on the back of that pin, and away you go. That was how I did it, as it was much cleaner than getting in around the tail lights. Plus much easier to fix if something went wrong.

Matt

Matt,

Would you mind posting some pictures of your splice here? Did you use t-taps or something else? And what about weather-proofing? I'm wanting to install a backup camera on my 2008 and would like to see how someone else did it.

also...do you know if this connector has a counterpart somewhere in the main cabin? Where do the wires run to (haven't traced em yet)?

Thanks!

15002NV · April 15, 2009

My camera was a plate frame mount. I like it best as on mods or cuts to the truck it is locked down with flush bolt heads and it is low and center for trailor backup.

Anyways My camera had a waterproof S-video style cable so reverse wire is ran with a different wire. Anyways I didn't want to run all the way back so....

Remove the drivers door sill plate and kick plate.

lift carpet and you will see a large rubber gromet that a cable goes throught

with a hook tool I stretched open the center hole and ran the S-video and one wire

Go under the truck and right there is large wire harness on the frame rail

cut tape use hook tool to pull all wires out of loom and there was ony 2 green one shoed 12v in reverse

tape it all back up and it was done

I think it was green!