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I have a 2011 Edge limited. my backup camera sometimes has the lines and sometimes not. I find no correlation with anything that I'm doing.  The issue I recently had was after a 4 hour night time drive on a 72 degree night, I stopped to let someone out. Then when I put it in reverse, the image was grainy and looked like it was sprayed with white paint speckles. I immediately got out and cleaned it but it was still there.

So I read a few threads where people pulled the RVC out and replaced it, but in one thread, two different folks took the camera apart, one by cutting it and one by slicing between plastic halves. The guy who sliced it open, cleaned all the lenses (5 or 6 in there?) and worked good as new. I can't find that thread anymore.

When I took mine out, I found it was pretty well sealed together - one seal at the body and one seal where the lens case leaves the body. The real shocker was that it had a MFG date of 2013! So obviously it's been replaced having a part number of BT4T-19G490-AF (I bought the car used.) Taking it out was simple and I cleaned all the caked dust off of it, the connectors and cleaned the lightly scratched lens. It's daylight at the moment, but after putting it all together, it seems clear and the guidelines are on (including the black center line which sometimes goes away leaving only the side lines. I hope the night time speckled light scattering is gone but if anyone knows how to disassemble the camera module, that will be my next effort. I hope someone else has dismantled the camera module.

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57 minutes ago, Dmtaurus said:

I replaced my 2015 SEL Edge failed factory camera with a Dorman camera.  It works well but the guides that swing back and forth are out of sync with the steering wheel.  Any solution to this?  I did not see a camera calibration reset option in Forscan.

 

They changed the name of the function in ForScan. It is called “Local Interconnect Network New Module Calibration”. Try that and see if it works.

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Has anyone tried pulling out a rear-view camera from a vehicle in a salvage yard and swapping the cameras?

I think I could do that much, but I am not sure if I could handle updating the software, if that would become necessary.

My question is... if you swap out the cameras, do you also need to reinitialize the software to recognize the installation of the second camera?

 

 

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On ‎4‎/‎4‎/‎2019 at 6:35 PM, candurin said:

 

Happy to report new camera works perfect, guidelines and all.  Took about 45 minutes total, including FORScan programming (reset PAM module and initialized camera).

 

 

Is the programming/camera initialization something that you can do yourself, or do you have to take it to a dealer?

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From what I have read the wizards at Forscan have no desire to try and get aftermarket cameras to work with the factory rear-view set-up.  Also, I installed a Dorman camera to replace the failed Ford camera and the white steering lines don't display correctly.  I took the vehicle to the dealer for a recall and they updated Sync and they said they got the camera to work right for about 10 minutes and then it went back to the steering line error.  I tried Forscan but the programming timed out after 8% completion.

I wrote Dorman and got a reply that they would try their camera in a test mule Edge to verify the white line error if I sent them the last 5 or 6 digits of the VIN, which I did.  That was last October.  I just wrote them several weeks ago and they still haven't done the experiment.  Given the state of the world I don't know if they will ever get to it.  But the thing I do know is that after 2 separate tries with new Dorman cameras they are not a drop-in replacement and they don't work right.   

 

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I just had this issue start on my 2012 Ford Explorer. Have not had it happen before with any other updates on Sync .  
Is the camera replacement the only option. I also have tried all of the menu options and my parking assist l

is clicked to on,  On the menu. I did see one person post a YouTube video in 2019 for replacement of camera so wondering if that is the only option.

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Replaced original camera a few years ago with a Chinese camera off Amazon(I did the replacement). Had lines as the listing said it would. Camera died. Now took it to Ford under an extended warranty. New OEM camera...no lines no magnification. New camera doesn't do it. All settings correct. Was told that the "new" camera does not do the lines. There's no programming. That's what i was told. 

Now, if I swap that for a camera on amazon that says it does lines (because it's older and not OEM), would I have lines? I bet I would.

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2011 Edge Limited. Backup camera died and replaced with Part #: BT4Z19G490B (park assist camera/back up camera). Was told that I would no longer have my backup guide lines. I asked if it needed to be programed or configured. I was told no. The lines will not be there and the magnification function will not work (although it will have the icon). I did not know about ForScan software until a few minutes ago. But this is the version "B" camera that replaced the version "A" so not sure if ForScan programming would do it.

 

I have seen a YouTube video on my model that worked after programming, but that might have been a version "A" camera that this version "B" replaced, as it's 5 years old.

 

Can anyone shed light on this? 

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With an OEM the lines should appear after programming. Who ever told you that there is no programming doesn't know or just doesn't want to do it.

 

It is a simple programming process, with ForScan it's only a few minutes and you should get the lines. 

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