Add guidelines to the backup camera display

Hello Rich, you can add guide lines to the display if it is an OEM setup you have on a Prius.

If I remember correctly you turn the auto backup system on and there are touch buttons on the display to add the lines.

The display I find most useful is with two strait green bars that show the position of the car in a strait line, and yellow bars that curve as you turn the steering showing the path the car will take for a given steering angle.

If this does not work let me know as I am going out for a short while later and will double check.

John (Britprius)

 

Ok am going out shortly and will be back in 90 mins with full update.

 

hi try navtool they are @ navtool.com thy may have a solution, i have purchased my back-up camera kit from them

 

For some reason, I have the feeling they don't put the guidelines on cars in the US. For my life, I can't figure out why. Do they think people here never back up into a parking space ever? I had never seen any car with the guidelines until I went abroad...

 

Rich, update to backup camera. If you go into reverse with auto park turned on "so reverse picture comes on" then turn auto reverse off.

On bottom left of MFD is a button, touch to scroll through 3 different modes.

Hope this helps.

PS, no offence meant but every time I respond to one of your posts I keep responding as if you are in the UK because of your avatar. Guess I'll get use to it soon.

John (Britprius)

 

Just acquired a 2007 with factory backup cam and nav. I don’t think the auto park was ever offered in the US market. I guess we’re that good at parking, NOT!

I still would like to have the guidelines on the screen. Is this even possible with a US spec car?

 

Sure, just go get a Sharpie...

 

When I park my car, i like to align the guidelines with the yellow parking marks on the ground, so I know my car is right in the center of my space. (OCD sorry)

as you can see from the attached manual extract, even-thought the car is perpendicular to the line of poles, the camera shows them curving, because the camera isn't mounted dead center.
So it's very frustrating when you try to adjust your position with the camera only to realize you were off because the camera was off center. /rant

 

Not even remotely helpful or funny. This why I rarely post.

 

my wife's new hycam came with the guidelines on the 6" screen, not sure if prius is getting them.

 

My Prius is a pkg II with the standard MFD, can I adapt a backup camera into mine?

 

If your 2008 is actually a package 2 or higher, you should already have a backup camera.

 

It's not. It's just a pkg 1. No camera. Is the head unit the same in the I v. II? I thought it was a Pkg II. I was wrongo.