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  • P Peter_in_2780

    The reversing camera on my car doesn't have a washer/wiper.

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    • P Peter_in_2780

      The reversing camera on my car doesn't have a washer/wiper.

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      Just buy one here: Visit Fabory and purchase Washers & Rings and other fastener products for quality and convenience.[^] :-\

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      • P Peter_in_2780

        The reversing camera on my car doesn't have a washer/wiper.

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        • P Peter_in_2780

          The reversing camera on my car doesn't have a washer/wiper.

          Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

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          Ours predates the days of reversing cameras but does have a reversing proximity detector that beeps. There were times in Canada when it needed a defroster to get rid of snow or ice!

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          • P Peter_in_2780

            The reversing camera on my car doesn't have a washer/wiper.

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            I use my own personal finger. Added bonus: I never forget to take it with me :laugh:

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            • P Peter_in_2780

              The reversing camera on my car doesn't have a washer/wiper.

              Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

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              We have a truck with electronic gizmos and a car without. I'm old and have always used mirrors; side and rear view, with never a problem. Although the rear camera, on the truck is handy when I get PO'd and want to back up over something. :)

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              • Mircea NeacsuM Mircea Neacsu

                I use my own personal finger. Added bonus: I never forget to take it with me :laugh:

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                jmaida
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                :) Had wasp looking into my camera as I was backing out. Fascinating. Unfortunately I was not fast enough with my cell phone camera.

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                • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                  We have a truck with electronic gizmos and a car without. I'm old and have always used mirrors; side and rear view, with never a problem. Although the rear camera, on the truck is handy when I get PO'd and want to back up over something. :)

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                  The camera is also handy when you want to hook up a bumper tow trailer. That is all I ever use it for. Now if my truck only had one for in the box it would make hooking up the goose neck trailer a lot easier. With the extended cab and tool box in the way I can not see the ball at all from the cab. But I am getting pretty good a guesstimate its position so I get it in only a couple removes.

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                  • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                    We have a truck with electronic gizmos and a car without. I'm old and have always used mirrors; side and rear view, with never a problem. Although the rear camera, on the truck is handy when I get PO'd and want to back up over something. :)

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                    Peter_in_2780
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                    I learned to reverse on side mirrors many years ago, driving pickups etc with the interior mirror obscured. My main use for the camera is picking distance when parking. I still find it difficult to judge distance in a convex mirror, as 99% of side mirrors are these days. (And I drive a variety of vehicles with similar width but variable length.)

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                    • P Peter_in_2780

                      The reversing camera on my car doesn't have a washer/wiper.

                      Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

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                      jochance
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                      Some Netflix pranks show I watched had a cool rig with four posts and magnets on the end. Hooks/little bungees let you suspend, say, a tiny shopping cart within the posts. Then you can walk by and stick the whole thing to the back of a car right over the camera. When they get out, they can't see a cart (or whatever you suspend) which they should see well before they go far enough back to see the rig stuck to their camera. :)

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                      • P Peter_in_2780

                        The reversing camera on my car doesn't have a washer/wiper.

                        Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

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                        jschell
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                        At least for my car it would need to be really, really small.

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                        • PJ ArendsP PJ Arends

                          The camera is also handy when you want to hook up a bumper tow trailer. That is all I ever use it for. Now if my truck only had one for in the box it would make hooking up the goose neck trailer a lot easier. With the extended cab and tool box in the way I can not see the ball at all from the cab. But I am getting pretty good a guesstimate its position so I get it in only a couple removes.

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                          englebart
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                          Take an old broomstick or thin stick. To the end of the broomstick, fasten a suction cup, cut off water bottle, Pringles can, or anything, that will balance/stand on/over the ball. Place it on/over the ball. Backup until the hitch bumps into it.

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                          • P Peter_in_2780

                            The reversing camera on my car doesn't have a washer/wiper.

                            Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

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                            Alister Morton
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                            Our current car has a reversing camera which, like yours, lacks a wiper and so needs wiping regularly. But an even more first world problem is that our previous car also had a front camera and mirror cameras for all round view on the screen, and boy do we miss losing 75% of the coverage.

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                            • P Peter_in_2780

                              The reversing camera on my car doesn't have a washer/wiper.

                              Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

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                              Gary Wheeler
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                              Design fail. The backup camera on my car remains useful even in the rain based on its mounting location beneath the lip of the trunk lid which deflects the rain.

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                                Design fail. The backup camera on my car remains useful even in the rain based on its mounting location beneath the lip of the trunk lid which deflects the rain.

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                                Alister Morton
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                                Ours is under the lip, too. It gets a fine covering of road spray in wet weather.

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                                  Design fail. The backup camera on my car remains useful even in the rain based on its mounting location beneath the lip of the trunk lid which deflects the rain.

                                  Software Zen: delete this;

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                                  Peter_in_2780
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                                  Car had been stationary in the carport. Fine rain had blown in from behind. The camera is pretty well shrouded, in the tailgate.

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                                    Take an old broomstick or thin stick. To the end of the broomstick, fasten a suction cup, cut off water bottle, Pringles can, or anything, that will balance/stand on/over the ball. Place it on/over the ball. Backup until the hitch bumps into it.

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                                    PJ Arends
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                                    Sounds like a great idea. So simple and so obvious now that I have heard it. I will have to try that. Thanks

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                                    • PJ ArendsP PJ Arends

                                      Sounds like a great idea. So simple and so obvious now that I have heard it. I will have to try that. Thanks

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                                      englebart
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                                      A few minutes later, I thought: “2-3 Pringles cans and some duct tape is even easier!” Bonus: If you punch out the bottoms to make a tube, you have a wifi extender/snooper.

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