Heritage Grill Camera Swap - Observations

[exia]

They ended up not charging since they broke it. They told me to replace the camera with the proper camera bracket and come back and I would have to pay for it as a non-warranty service.

I instead looked up the technical instructions and did it myself against my original camera and all systems worked perfectly when I followed the tech instructions. Why they didn't know how, I cannot answer.

I appreciate the reply. I’ll have to take a look at those tech instructions.

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[Baltimore]

I appreciate the reply. I’ll have to take a look at those tech instructions.

No problem.
If you only want to nudge your front camera, many have success going to a parking area with a lot of painted lines and then accessing the service menu.
If you feel that your 360 bird's eye view is a little off, or want to make sure you can dial all the cameras into ideal position, then you want to do the entire setup and procedure.
Or if anything disables your 360 view or parking lines, the full procedure will reset things.

The most tedious and time consuming part is the setup of the marks on the ground. The process of calibration is very straightforward after that.

I swear I posted some photos from doing it on another post (likely the calibration one of I had to guess).

Needed:
patience & 3ish hours so you never feel rushed
A tape measure that's at least 25ft long, ideally one that has metric (all measurements are in mm)
A plumb bob
About 2 rolls of 2" wide painters tape (the various marks you will make on the ground are 89mm/8cm wide at all times) - it burns up a lot of tape.
About 150ft or so of throwaway string & something to weigh down each end (14 weights of memory is correct - you'll end up with 3 lines front/back and 4 lines left/right)
Knife or scissors to cut string & tape

For me, moving slowly and methodically solo, it took about 2h for the setup on a large flat area. About 30ish minutes to dial all the cameras in, and about 25 min to clean it all up and put everything away.

In a just, there are 4 positions you drop a plumb bob from the truck to mark the ground (front center, rear center, leading edge of each rear bumper at the rear wheel wells). This create your first string "cross". Then all other measurements are references from those starting points. Getting the extract size of the tape lines and crosses is important because you then play a "game" of sorts where you adjust the cameras but you are equally needing to make sure certain lines you made for inside the 'boxes' on the screen (it'll make sense when you see it). Your marks have to fall within the boxes to a difference or it fails (as my local dealership was unable to understand).

Each camera can be moved six ways: forward, backward, left, right, up, down. Up and down are actual zoom out/in. Even if you haven't adjusted lift you might end up using this to get the images to stitch together better.

I was worried about it all the first time but I figured my dealership had already broken/disabled things so what really do I have to lose? Having now done it, I would say: don't fear it. It's very straight forward. Just don't rush it and take the time to do the layout properly. You'll be rewarded accordingly.

 

[JayTech]

I’m finding Toyota techs, parts, service dept, etc aren’t as knowledgeable as we imagine

Some are, some aren't. There are those that care about their work so they put the effort in to be informed and learn as much as they can, and then there are those that are just there to make a paycheque and put in no effort. But this holds true to the entire industry not just Toyota.

 

[ramcoma]

So I just got my trail Hunter OEM Grille. And read through the whole thread pages. But I’m really confused what my options are in terms of getting the front camera to lineup. Should I go with the rave bracket or the gurvy bracket?? what is really difference between the two. If using the curvy brackets can one just calibrate the cameras them selves or does it have to to be done through the dealer and profile changed to the trail Hunter grille? I would really appreciate if someone can just clear up this confusion for me because I’m stuck with 900 bucks worth of stuff that I can’t even install. I thought it was just as easy as swapping camera brackets and it was a done deal.

 

[rijc99]

Once you adjust and save it, you need to reprogram the circumference monitoring system again to readjust it.

if I clear the circumference monitoring system does it just bring the values to 0? As in the way the vehicle left the manufacturing floor?

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