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Reusing the rear wiper motor harness 2010

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Technical Discussion' started by volt_killa, Jun 6, 2015.

  1. volt_killa

    volt_killa volt_killa #ItsATealPrius OPTLMUS

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    Now that I've finally deleted my rear wiper arm, I thought it would be a good idea to make use of the now-superfluous wires to the motor, and add a rear camera that I can activate via the wiper stalk, instead of only getting the rear view when I put the car into reverse.

    So, the camera has 2 wires that ordinarily would have to be tapped to the reverse light's positive and negative wires, so I thought that maybe the rear wiper harness would also have similar wires that I can tap into as well.

    During my trial and error, I used a multimeter and managed to accidentally trigger the wiper fluid with the black lead on the black/white harness wire and the red lead on the blue harness wire. In any case, I didn't know what I was doing and/or what the multimeter might have been able to tell me about the wires, so that experiment was over.

    On the harness there are a total of 5 wires/slots, and in the end, I tried all possible combinations (including connecting to the blue wire, which didn't trigger any wiper fluid), but still the monitor wouldn't display the rear view.

    Am I doing something wrong here, is my assumption about the negative and positive wires on the wiper motor harness flawed, do I need to jump some of the wires on the harness, etc.? What voltage is being put out to the reverse lights, maybe the motor receives less power in comparison?
     
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  2. frodoz737

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    Here are the prints for front and rear wipers/washers to help you, but most installers do not use the method your trying. Would suggest you rethink this one and use the conventional.
     

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  3. volt_killa

    volt_killa volt_killa #ItsATealPrius OPTLMUS

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    Thanks... feel so silly, didn't have all the required pieces at the time, managed to figure it out after putting them together

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