Wolfbox install
- Thread starter dave_b
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Ah yes, l’ve just looked at your photos a bit closer. I’ve put both types of knob next to each other in the image attached, and they appear to either be a different diameter, or the shaft to it is a different diameter.
Your knob won’t be solid, it’ll be hollow. I’d still Frankenstein your windscreen bracket and the Wolfbox bracket together.
Cut your knob and shaft off of your bracket. Cut the windscreen bracket off of the new Wolfbox mount leaving the shaft attached (as per my link).
Open up the hole inside your bracket to accept the shaft of the Wolfbox bracket.
Bond both together with araldite.
Hope that helps.
Your knob won’t be solid, it’ll be hollow. I’d still Frankenstein your windscreen bracket and the Wolfbox bracket together.
Cut your knob and shaft off of your bracket. Cut the windscreen bracket off of the new Wolfbox mount leaving the shaft attached (as per my link).
Open up the hole inside your bracket to accept the shaft of the Wolfbox bracket.
Bond both together with araldite.
Hope that helps.
Tried the install today.
Abject failure.
I installed the rear camera onto the rear trim.
That bit went well at least!
I then started tracing the existing camera wire and quickly got stuck.
I traced it through the door gator to behind the light, I could see where it was spliced into the lighting wires to activate reverse mode, I could also see where it was spliced into another wire that disappeared into the van through the rear light hole, but then I was totally stuck on here it went.
It looked like it went down the side of the van, so I removed an inner panel, but there was no access to the wires.
I then removed some trim where the rear speakers are in the ceiling, I thought the wire may trace up into this area, I tried to thread some wire from the top left interior corner down the rear light, but I couldn’t get anything down far enough and I’m not even sure if that is a direct route down to the light. If it was, I could then potentially route the wire over to the other side where it would have been easier to get it behind some interior trim, but even then, I could not see how I could keep the wire hidden all the way to the rear view mirror.
So frustrating. I can’t see any route to the front of the van. I also can’t see how the existing rear camera was installed. I thought it would be just one wire, not sure why there are so many splices at the rear of the van.?
I then tried to trace the wire from the rear view mirror backwards, it sounded and felt like it went directly backwards and not along the front edge of the windscreen and through the A pillar.
I can’t even think how a pro would install it. How do you get the camera wires around the poptop.
Abject failure.
I installed the rear camera onto the rear trim.
That bit went well at least!
I then started tracing the existing camera wire and quickly got stuck.
I traced it through the door gator to behind the light, I could see where it was spliced into the lighting wires to activate reverse mode, I could also see where it was spliced into another wire that disappeared into the van through the rear light hole, but then I was totally stuck on here it went.
It looked like it went down the side of the van, so I removed an inner panel, but there was no access to the wires.
I then removed some trim where the rear speakers are in the ceiling, I thought the wire may trace up into this area, I tried to thread some wire from the top left interior corner down the rear light, but I couldn’t get anything down far enough and I’m not even sure if that is a direct route down to the light. If it was, I could then potentially route the wire over to the other side where it would have been easier to get it behind some interior trim, but even then, I could not see how I could keep the wire hidden all the way to the rear view mirror.
So frustrating. I can’t see any route to the front of the van. I also can’t see how the existing rear camera was installed. I thought it would be just one wire, not sure why there are so many splices at the rear of the van.?
I then tried to trace the wire from the rear view mirror backwards, it sounded and felt like it went directly backwards and not along the front edge of the windscreen and through the A pillar.
I can’t even think how a pro would install it. How do you get the camera wires around the poptop.
I also found this thread which has a picture of a bracket from Steel Mate that works with the original VW screen mount and the Wolfbox bracket.
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