Next was the backup camera. I didnt like the idea of cutting the tail light wires so I wanted to do something different. Also I didnt want to take that bumper cover off as that didnt look like much fun.

First step was removing the license plate. Next I put the video wire through the hole that located behind where the plate was.






There is not enough room behind there to run the wire through as it is. So I loosened the bolt in that hole some. I did not remove it as I could see me losing that sucker down inside the bumper cover and having to tear everything part to fish it out.
Then I put my pry tools in at the top to create a gap to run the wires. I used a stiff wire I found in the garage to act as a guide that I could attach to the regular wires to and pull through.





There isnt enough room to really run it straight across in one go so I chose to pull the wire up thru the gap to the right as the above pic shows.

Next I taped the wires for the camera to the guide wire.




Next I removed the side marker light by prying it out of bumper cover and worked the guide wire into the opening of the marker light.




Now with the wire on the side of the car like that I removed the plastic cover from under the bumper. I think its referred to here as a diffuser. With this out of the way you can see the rubber plug thats at the bottom of the trunk area right below the side marker light I had popped out. Here you can see where the wire comes out when I ran it down from the side marker.




Laying on the ground and looking up from below the side marker lets you see the rubber plug. I cut this in a cross pattern and pressed the wire through it into the trunk.




Next you need to remove the carpet inside the trunk. Its held with pop up clips and one plastic nut. I will snap some pics of those tomorrow.

Once removed I pulled the wire I had run up the rubber grommet out into the trunk.




Once inside I pulled it into the main part of the trunk temporarily.




I used stud with the red painted nut on it that is a central ground spot to ground the backup camera to. Power is provide down a wire that is inside the rca video cable that is being run to the front. By doing this I didnt have to cut and splice into any wires.

I still need to do pics for the rest and I stopped not much past this part for today. Also I will do a diagram showing how I wired everything then.

As for how it looks from behind?




While this is what it USED to look like after I first mounted its not how it looks now. I ran into a problem with this install method for the camera itself. You cant get to the handle for the trunk because the camera covers the handle.

What I ended up doing and I will shoot a pic of it tomorrow is to flip the license plate from upside down. Then I removed the camera from the frame and turn the camera over so its right side up with the frame upside down. Looks pretty good still that way and solved the problem.