Review on 📷 Enhance Your Subaru Experience with Femitu Impreza Backup Camera: Waterproof Rear View Camera for Forester, Outback, and Impreza by Kyle Pickett

Installed yesterday. (On my 2009 Impreza 5 speed sedan) I had to shave off the yellow RCA connector to get it through a small hole behind the trim panel on the trunk. I just shaved off a piece of plastic with a razor blade. Not a big deal but they could have used one that wasn't that thick I guess. Pulling out the license plate light is a bit of a hassle, you have to turn off the light and then use a screwdriver to pry off the metal pieces that the bulb is in because they are crimped onto the wire and there is no plug to unplug. You could just cut those wires, it's easier, and plan on never using a factory lamp again. connected the positive wire from the tail light to the purple/white wire coming out the back of my Pioneer head unit and now when I put it in reverse the head unit displays an image almost immediately. Great. When I turn on the lights, the license plate LEDs also light up. Works perfectly. A solution to make the lights the same color on the other side? I can just buy another camera and just plug in the light! This company might sell an LED box that looked the same but actually only contained light bulbs. You can include it as part of a kit or sell it separately. It would be easy to install while you disassembled everything. I'll be posting some photos and maybe a video soon. *EDIT* Photos added. As if water got in and the LEDs stopped working. The camera still works! BUT in upstate New York, if any light doesn't work, they fail the test, even if the standard light works and illuminates my plate. OK. So I bought a second one a few years ago (I think I have a third one here too) so I had a spare. Not sure if the water got in because of the insane water pressure from the car wash or the rain. Entry from above behind the end panel. Anyway, I had to change it. He removed the lining under the trunk lid, twisted it in a towel, and taped the towel to the lining so as not to scratch all the paint. (I did manage to scratch my body colored "fake chrome" piece though. And some rear paint on the trunk. Booooo but my fault.) So I used taped crimp wires to make the connections beforehand, so I unwrapped the tape, undid the crimps, then installed and connected the new camera, cut the plastic housing of the power and video outputs a bit and put them through the sleeve, as in the picture below. I was able to complete this whole task in about an hour whereas I think it took hours the first time because I really didn't know what I was going to do beforehand. The LEDs are on the bottom (the glue has dried clear) so I hope no water gets there. I also very carefully scooped some goop onto a toothpick and poke it through the seam where the camera lens meets the body. Who knows if this will work, but it might help. You can also use a bit on the top where the wires enter the case through a couple of small grommets, but I wasn't concerned, it seemed waterproof to me. I then checked the camera/light very quickly before putting everything back in place. together and it worked just like the old one, although it was definitely a slightly different cam pattern. I would like to do a more detailed guide on this as you can also wire it up so that when you are walking down the street you can turn on the camera at any time and look at the picture etc. I connected this, so the camera only gets power when when the reversing lights are on. I think I missed that in the original review. I think if you wire it up so that the camera is always on, you can use the head unit controls to tell the Pioneer head unit to show a rear-view image at any time, but it will also turn on when you're backing up. Maybe a neat trick, but I'm not sure I'll use it often. Maybe in winter when my rear window is fogged up, iced over, dirty or something similar.