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Please help !!!

 

I have looked at all the postings regarding backup cameras. It seems GM does not support the 2008 Nav system in a truck to allow a aftermarket camera. All the posts indicate it will work on a 2007, but the dealer cannot get my camera to work. Any help from someone out there that may have got it to work on a 2008?

 

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Jerry

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Please help !!!

 

I have looked at all the postings regarding backup cameras. It seems GM does not support the 2008 Nav system in a truck to allow a aftermarket camera. All the posts indicate it will work on a 2007, but the dealer cannot get my camera to work. Any help from someone out there that may have got it to work on a 2008?

 

Thanks,

 

Jerry

 

 

Should work just fine. If they cannot get to work, it is because they are unfamiliar with what setting to program into the NAV. If you would like to e-mail me, we can exchange telephone numbers and I can walk you through the correct process to get to work. Absolutely works no problem if you know what you are doing.

 

Larry

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pm26 Senior Enthusiast

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Just an idea, but your local RV dealer may be more helpful with this. They install after market rear view cameras on their motor homes all the time. And also service the factory installed ones.

 

And many C class motor homes are built on a Chevy chassis. And some class A's are built on the Workhorse Chevy chassis with the 8.1 liter V8.

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we didn't get a backup camera on our silverado.....I had asked the dealership how much it would be to hook one up throught the navigation and it was almost $700....so we decided to wait and my husband said he could do it (he personally doesn't really want one...I am the one thinking I might want one).....do you guys have any suggestions about good back up cameras....?

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OK they finally got it to work, but it was not that easy.

 

I took it to a second dealer, and didn't tell them that I already had it into a different dealer, and they said the same thing. I was told that the body control module, BCM software for the 2008 GMC Serria, at this time, would not allow them to program the backup camera into the Nav system. The next day I got a phone message from the first dealer stating that they know how to do it. I took it back and they got it to work. I asked the Tech what he had to do to get it to work. He stated that the software didn't support it, but he found out that he could remove the Nav head unit and set an internal switch to allow the camera. If you tow a trailer, and have to "interface" with your wife to get it hooked up, you know how much a backup camera is worth. It will be sooo nice to start our next trip and still be in talking terms with her.

 

Jerry

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we didn't get a backup camera on our silverado.....I had asked the dealership how much it would be to hook one up throught the navigation and it was almost $700....so we decided to wait and my husband said he could do it (he personally doesn't really want one...I am the one thinking I might want one).....do you guys have any suggestions about good back up cameras....?

 

There are various wireless camera systems available for our trucks, and universal systems as well. I saw one online that mounts as your license plate frame, and it has the camera mounted on there. It then sends the image wirelessly into your cab to a monitor. Less than $100. Try Walmart.com

 

-Al

Bostonsfavson Senior Enthusiast

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I'd stay away from the wireless cameras. Far, far away. They're simply too unreliable and, quite frankly, crappy at this point in time to even consider. Give the technology a few years and maybe it will get a little better.

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