cameo
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Street Guardian only sent me the front camera and 3-wire power supply. I cemented the hole that I had to drill in the rear bumper to feed the rear camera cable into the trunk. So the rear camera will never be replaced in this car. At least not by me.The waterproof cameras are pretty new, so it is a virgin market so to say, but if the waterproofing is up to par i cant see why they should fail earlier.
My personal feeling towards the outside cameras is that frequent car wash could damage / scratch the lens and so the image quality, so it would have to be pretty bad if i was to resort to a outside mounted camera.
It is plenty just seeing my windscreen, and even rear window on a 2012 car, which look as if someone have been sandblasting near my car and shown very little care.
I also pushed all cables feeding into the front camera under the rubber lip of the windshield glass and glued the rubber lip to the car's body. Unsealing the wires would damage both the rubber lip and the paint, so if I had to replace the three-wire power adaptor, I would be facing a choice of either disassembling the voltage regulator so that I could attach the new regulator to the old cable or routing the new power cable externally without hiding it. So the question whether I should replace the old unit with a new was strictly about the front camera since it is the only piece of the the system that I can easily swap.