I recently bought a ‘05 Dodge ram that has aftermarket front and rear cameras installed on the truck. There seem to be wires running from both cameras to the cab area, either under the front seats or to the stereo area. The stereo head unit is an aftermarket android 9. The previous owner said that the cameras work or did work, but that he didn’t hook them back up when he got the aftermarket android unit. I’m usually pretty tech savvy, but inspected all the wiring and couldn’t figure out what might be disconnected.

Does anyone have any advice about who might be able to solve this for me? Trying not to get ripped off by paying a bunch of hours of labor at a big car audio place.

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Posted by gobuxgo5

Member since Nov 2012

10117 posts

Posted on 8/30/20 at 7:32 pm to Brightside Bengal

I have no help for you on the tech, but I have some good jokes about a 2005 Ram not needing a front or back camera for road use.

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Posted by Dam Guide

Member since Sep 2005

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Posted on 8/31/20 at 7:47 pm to gobuxgo5

It’s gonna be a pain to figure out. The Android system probably had to have a conversion harness to work with your standard harness and the aftermarket cameras had a conversion harness for the standard system as well. It’s gonna be a mess and you are gonna need the wiring setup for the cameras, the standard harness, and the android system to make sense of it. Best bet is to go to a forum for that specific vehicle and see if some with the same setup might could help you. Or take it to someone that installs systems for a living who can figure it out.

This post was edited on 8/31/20 at 7:48 pm

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