2016 Backup Camera Issue?
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2016 Backup Camera Issue?
I have a 2016 Limited and since about 6 months ago, the backup camera has been flaking out. When it first started happening it was very intermittent...camera didnt work maybe a handful of times over the course of a month....but it has gradually become more consistently broken.
For the past few months it will generally work when I start the truck in the morning and backup in my driveway, but then never works when I get to my destination. Whether or not it works when I leave the office or the restaurant or store or whatever is a crapshoot.
When I say the backup camera doesn't work, I mean ALL cameras bug out in the same way at the same time. Sometimes, they display a faded/messed up version of a still shot of where I was an hour earlier or 2 hours earlier or something like that....like when I backed into a parking spot this weekend at a restaurant, it showed me faded, distorted images of the gas station I had been at earlier. Rarely the screens will just be blue, but usually they are a bunch of horizontal lines.
To me this is pretty clearly not an issue with any actual camera...it has to do with some central processing board that all the cameras feed into since they are all always affected the same way at the same time...but my dealer after multiple visits replaced the backup camera (in the tailgate I assume?). No change in behavior...so they were going to reach out to ford ot see whats next.
I am hoping someone else here has had the same issue and knows what the fix was? I never needed cameras before, but when I had em I loved em....and now not having them (and being reminded they are still broken every time I backup) is really annoying.
For the past few months it will generally work when I start the truck in the morning and backup in my driveway, but then never works when I get to my destination. Whether or not it works when I leave the office or the restaurant or store or whatever is a crapshoot.
When I say the backup camera doesn't work, I mean ALL cameras bug out in the same way at the same time. Sometimes, they display a faded/messed up version of a still shot of where I was an hour earlier or 2 hours earlier or something like that....like when I backed into a parking spot this weekend at a restaurant, it showed me faded, distorted images of the gas station I had been at earlier. Rarely the screens will just be blue, but usually they are a bunch of horizontal lines.
To me this is pretty clearly not an issue with any actual camera...it has to do with some central processing board that all the cameras feed into since they are all always affected the same way at the same time...but my dealer after multiple visits replaced the backup camera (in the tailgate I assume?). No change in behavior...so they were going to reach out to ford ot see whats next.
I am hoping someone else here has had the same issue and knows what the fix was? I never needed cameras before, but when I had em I loved em....and now not having them (and being reminded they are still broken every time I backup) is really annoying.