Bought on eBay, for a good price, I expected some wiring problems and got them. Although sold as a reversing camera kit, in reality this was a screen and camera. Good news was that the seller was pretty helpful with advice on how to make it work, even though in the course of this, we identified that a male connector had to fit another male ie it had been wired wrong.
But never mind, it all worked eventually. I needed to get an extra metre of cable (ie buy a 6m cable instead of a 5m cable), but thought this should be simple enough. In fact it seems these cables are not easy to get and a 6m cable made up would be �59. My friendly electrics shop let me have one they had spare which they thought was about 10m long (probably longer) for a tenner. But having paid, I walked out of the shop and found that it had two male ends and I need one male and one female, so back for an adaptor.
But on driving home, reluctant to have miles of cable looping around, I decided to try and use the metre or so of cable that is attached to the screen as my extra bit. This means that the join to the main cable is no longer accessible under the dash and that I'll have to feed power cables back down the door frame to the dashboard, but will be a better match overall. It does mean that the connections and screen fuse are hidden in the van shell and so when I come to make the cab roof, I might just think of making it 'easy' to remove to get at the wires. Mind you removing the dashboard was not that easy anyway.
It is a bit odd doing this work on a van that has no front seat, is declared off road (ie SORN), has bits of fascia spread all over and right now cannot go forwards, let alone backwards. But the theory is that I can refit the fascia and not have to remove it again (some hopes!)
Fitting the camera involved another 3 holes, this time in the roof, and one was about 3/4" in size to take the cable grommet. Very scary. But it all worked in the end.
