Progress thread: Frank's Insignia

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Installed a rearview camera last night. Had quite some difficulty in carefully removing the rear cover because I didn't want to break any clips, but they were hard to see, so I had to take it slow.
There wasn't an open way to get to the license plate lights directly. They were hooked up to a connector that was fitted and sealed between the two chassis layers. I'm not really sure why this is so properly sealed off, I can't see how water would run here at all, but I suppose it's a good thing. Carefully planned a hole/grommet which I sealed off again with some moldable rubber. Getting the wires into the car then wasn't much of an issue with a nylon draw-in wire, although the RCA plug was a tad big to get through the rubbers.

The victim. I picked this over the other common model because the T5W bulb/holder combination clicks into the housing. No need to mess with wires there, and the color will be unchanged. The Dutch MOT equivalent requires there be no color variation among similar lights on either side.


Grommet, located closely to the connector for the license plate lights. Bit of a bad pic unfortunately.





Reference pic with clip locations