Without rear wiper, visibility in rain sucks. I already installed digital rear view mirror on the rear glass window, but it did not help much. With almost horizontal rear glass, it become dirty and not transparent very fast, especially driving on highway. My previous project REAR WIPER short lived. It seems cheap aliexpress rain wiper was not sealed well for been used in the rain. Did they design it for dry days only?
Anyway, I had dismounted rear spoiler, placed camera cable and routed cable out from drilled hole. Project took me ~4 hours, and it was major and complicated. It is way harder than installing hitch with bumper removal. In a fact, removing rear bumper is a piece of cake compared to spoiler. You had been warned.
1. Removed top rear plastic panel.
2. Despite found manual of LED lights installation, which say side panels can be removed, they dont. There is a hidden screw at the bottom, you only can un-click 2-3 top clips. Do only left one to get access to rubber cable pipe and its attached connector.
3. There are 6 bolts holding spoiler. 2 hidden under rubber.
4. This is the most fun part. Spoiler is very rugged, and clips are located at places you cannot reach. Some of them located at holders with 0.5mm thin plastic. Bumper was elastic, and its possible to remove without braking clips. Here its almost impossible. To lift it have extra hands to release rubber ring.
5. Congrats with done with hardest part. Next, to make watertight connection you must route cable via rubber ring. Camera connector is large, pushing it is not easy. I tried temporary remove existing cables from rubber ring, but was not able to remove pins from connector and gave up. After I used same way as routing cables via walls, route rope first, then pull it. Added some silicone for easy sliding.
6. After you removed spoiler, to route cable you need to remove bottom part. There are 6 screws at one side and bunch of dual tape on other side. There are few small and weak clips on that side, but I dont think they do anything. You going to break them if you try to pull it apart. I recommend not to do it, just bend a little and place camera cable.
In my case I fully removed it, removed old tape remains, cleaned and placed new tape all over. Just in case have a lot of good quality dual side tape.
7. Drill small hole at bottom to route camera cable and its connector. I had a rubber ring to make it look good.
8. Spoiler bottom is not horizontal. I had molding plastic and created small angle addition to compensate. I could painted it black but did not. Nothing permanent marker cannot fix.
9. Center of spoiler has a small empty space you can use to place camera connector.
10. Now sealing rubber ring: I used to employ black insulation tape before, but soon found it decomposes within few years. This time I used liquid rubber to seal rubber ring.
11. Note, I had to work near the car, as camera cable is very short, and extension cable from digital mirror has no connectors anywhere on the way to inside of spoiler.
Thinking now I think the better idea will be not only make a small hole for camera, but bigger hole for connector, this will allow to replace camera without removing spoiler again.
12. Used plastic weld putty to fix one broken clip.
13. Placing spoiler back requires 3 people, 2 holding it and one placing rubber ring.
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Anyway, I had dismounted rear spoiler, placed camera cable and routed cable out from drilled hole. Project took me ~4 hours, and it was major and complicated. It is way harder than installing hitch with bumper removal. In a fact, removing rear bumper is a piece of cake compared to spoiler. You had been warned.
1. Removed top rear plastic panel.
2. Despite found manual of LED lights installation, which say side panels can be removed, they dont. There is a hidden screw at the bottom, you only can un-click 2-3 top clips. Do only left one to get access to rubber cable pipe and its attached connector.
3. There are 6 bolts holding spoiler. 2 hidden under rubber.
4. This is the most fun part. Spoiler is very rugged, and clips are located at places you cannot reach. Some of them located at holders with 0.5mm thin plastic. Bumper was elastic, and its possible to remove without braking clips. Here its almost impossible. To lift it have extra hands to release rubber ring.
5. Congrats with done with hardest part. Next, to make watertight connection you must route cable via rubber ring. Camera connector is large, pushing it is not easy. I tried temporary remove existing cables from rubber ring, but was not able to remove pins from connector and gave up. After I used same way as routing cables via walls, route rope first, then pull it. Added some silicone for easy sliding.
6. After you removed spoiler, to route cable you need to remove bottom part. There are 6 screws at one side and bunch of dual tape on other side. There are few small and weak clips on that side, but I dont think they do anything. You going to break them if you try to pull it apart. I recommend not to do it, just bend a little and place camera cable.
In my case I fully removed it, removed old tape remains, cleaned and placed new tape all over. Just in case have a lot of good quality dual side tape.
7. Drill small hole at bottom to route camera cable and its connector. I had a rubber ring to make it look good.
8. Spoiler bottom is not horizontal. I had molding plastic and created small angle addition to compensate. I could painted it black but did not. Nothing permanent marker cannot fix.
9. Center of spoiler has a small empty space you can use to place camera connector.
10. Now sealing rubber ring: I used to employ black insulation tape before, but soon found it decomposes within few years. This time I used liquid rubber to seal rubber ring.
11. Note, I had to work near the car, as camera cable is very short, and extension cable from digital mirror has no connectors anywhere on the way to inside of spoiler.
Thinking now I think the better idea will be not only make a small hole for camera, but bigger hole for connector, this will allow to replace camera without removing spoiler again.
12. Used plastic weld putty to fix one broken clip.
13. Placing spoiler back requires 3 people, 2 holding it and one placing rubber ring.
