Steeda Front Parking Camera

[23GreenGremlin]

Thanks for the tip on the camera wire! At least I won't have to tear the dash apart again. It is probably in the instructions and I just missed it. Again, hope you get yours worked out unless they just sent you a bad control unit.

Confirmed that cutting the white wire switched the camera perspective and didn't mess up anything else. Definitely looks better with the proper left/right orientation. That was going to drive me nuts.

I was out in the garage at 10:30 last night pulling up the air box again. Getting really good at it and only takes me a couple of minutes. The Steeda video shows them manhandling the box up with the air inlet to the throttle body still in place. It literally takes a screwdriver to loosen the clamp and popping off a couple of fittings by hand to remove the inlet and makes it sooooooo much easier to remove and reinstall the air box without damaging anything.

I will say that the instructions provided with the camera kit leave a lot to be desired. Since the kit is designed to cover a variety of applications, it really doesn't give a lot of specific information for any one application. The video from Steeda helped a lot, but it came up short in a number of areas. One big one that wasn't a problem for me is they showed an installation on an automatic car that has an easy to access unused plug in the firewall. The customer video on Steeda talks about how they installed a kit on a manual trans car where they had to find a different access point for the wiring since the clutch uses the plug that the automatic cars leave available.

Still not a terribly hard install and a pricy but very useful mod.

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[OhioHPMach1]

I read about the white wire on the Steeda web page. It is mentioned a few times in the Q&A section and the review section.

I do not believe Steeda will replace the control unit as I purchased the unit a year ago. Steeda started to say that when I called yesterday with questions, but I interrupted and said I just want some technical assistance with this. The Steeda answer was to provide an engineer's email that works for their supplier company that builds (and probably designs) the unit. The gentleman is out of the office until tomorrow. We will see if he replies to my questions.

Were you able to figure out what the problem was? Same thing is happening to me.

 

[Rob_R]

Were you able to figure out what the problem was? Same thing is happening to me.

Unfortunately we, including Steeda and the manufacturer of the unit, could not get it to work in my car. I went back and forth with an engineer at the manufacturer over the course of 2 weeks. We tried several things, but ultimately the board was not recognized by my Mach. I was told by the engineer and Steeda that occasionally this happens. To Steeda's credit, they did all they could do and put me in touch with the manufacturer.

There was no effort spared on my part to try to make the unit work. I tried installing a manual triggering button which was not successful. Ultimately Steeda refunded my money. I did try 2 different units, each with different firmware and no success.

The situation appears that there is some unique setting or configuration on my Mach that won't allow it to talk to the camera system properly. I was truly bummed about it as I really wanted it to work. About 2-3 months before I tried installing the unit, Ford updated my BCM as part of the Low Brake Fluid Warning recall. Perhaps that changed something that prevented my car recognizing the additional camera......

In other news, I will be trying this setup that I saw on YouTube

How To Add A Front Camera To Your Factory Screen (CAR PLAY / MAGIC BOX)

Looks promising as the UTuber installs it on a Sync system! I'll let you guys know how it works.

 

[23GreenGremlin]

Unfortunately we, including Steeda and the manufacturer of the unit, could not get it to work in my car. I went back and forth with an engineer at the manufacturer over the course of 2 weeks. We tried several things, but ultimately the board was not recognized by my Mach. I was told by the engineer and Steeda that occasionally this happens. To Steeda's credit, they did all they could do and put me in touch with the manufacturer.

There was no effort spared on my part to try to make the unit work. I tried installing a manual triggering button which was not successful. Ultimately Steeda refunded my money. I did try 2 different units, each with different firmware and no success.

The situation appears that there is some unique setting or configuration on my Mach that won't allow it to talk to the camera system properly. I was truly bummed about it as I really wanted it to work. About 2-3 months before I tried installing the unit, Ford updated my BCM as part of the Low Brake Fluid Warning recall. Perhaps that changed something that prevented my car recognizing the additional camera......

In other news, I will be trying this setup that I saw on YouTube

How To Add A Front Camera To Your Factory Screen (CAR PLAY / MAGIC BOX)

Looks promising as the UTuber installs it on a Sync system! I'll let you guys know how it works.

Rob, Sorry to hear you were unable to get yours working. Mine is still fine and I have had the update for the brake fluid warning light. Strange but I guess it does occasionally happen.
Steve

 

[OhioHPMach1]

Curious if they refunded you your money? Would be really disappointing if I have a $400 paper weight.

 

[Rob_R]

Curious if they refunded you your money? Would be really disappointing if I have a $400 paper weight.

Yes, as I mentioned above, they refunded me for the second unit. Steeda did not refund me for the first unit I purchased because I didn't get around to installing the first unit until 1 year after purchase. I cannot blame Steeda for that as it is their written refund policy. That is totally on me for being lazy and waiting too long to install the first unit. Lesson learned.

You can call Steeda to discuss the issues you are having and see if they can provide any guidance on getting the unit to work.

I see you have a '22 Mach 1. Mine was built in August of 22. Do you know when yours was built? There may be a common thread here.

 

[23GreenGremlin]

For anyone with a manual trans Mach 1, Steeda has now added a note to their front camera ordering page that indicates the front camera does not work with the manual trans Mach 1. Seems to be OK with the manual trans GT, or Ecoboost, so it must be specific to the TREMEC transmission or the programming to support the transmission. For us 10R80 automatic owners, I've had my camera installed for two years now and it still works great!

 

[Black22PP]

For anyone with a manual trans Mach 1, Steeda has now added a note to their front camera ordering page that indicates the front camera does not work with the manual trans Mach 1. Seems to be OK with the manual trans GT, or Ecoboost, so it must be specific to the TREMEC transmission or the programming to support the transmission. For us 10R80 automatic owners, I've had my camera installed for two years now and it still works great!

Alot of good info here guys thanks. I have a 22 GT with a manual trans and having the same problem. Camera does not turn on with the OK button. Only when going in reverse. Just contacted Steeda with pictures of my installation and verification that the install was done by the instructions. Maybe this is a problem with 22 GT's with a manual trans. I mean there should be no difference in the sync system between a GT and and mach 1. Lets see what they say. Thanks for the info guys. Also if there were any updates or if anything else was done to make it work, I would love to hear about it.

 

[23GreenGremlin]

Alot of good info here guys thanks. I have a 22 GT with a manual trans and having the same problem. Camera does not turn on with the OK button. Only when going in reverse. Just contacted Steeda with pictures of my installation and verification that the install was done by the instructions. Maybe this is a problem with 22 GT's with a manual trans. I mean there should be no difference in the sync system between a GT and and mach 1. Lets see what they say. Thanks for the info guys. Also if there were any updates or if anything else was done to make it work, I would love to hear about it.

If you reach out to Steeda, please let us know what they say. My camera has worked perfectly for over two years but that clearly hasn't been the experience of everyone.

 

[Eury]

I’m seeing the same behavior on my 22 GT. Camera works if I have it in reverse, and I can switch to the rear, but as soon as I come out of reverse it goes away. Not very useful.

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