Mine applied with 3M tape right on the window, I think most of them do. Yeah, I suppose you could leave 1-2 inches at the top if it didn't bother you otherwise. Do you have tinting on another car so you could try it out and see if it degrades much?

 

Have a 2025 F150 Platinum. Is there some way to put in front and rear cameras without wires all over the dash, and traveling back to the rear? How do you hide the wiring? Along the floor?
Having the power picked up from the mirror is fine, no wire hanging down from the camera to the power plug in.

 

Don't know this for sure, but I think the factory tint on my 2025 Lariat is around 20%. I have no problem at all seeing the rear dash cam footage (as you can see from my post with pictures), so you probably don't need to leave the top of the rear window untinted.

 

There are some good videos online about how to wire the rear camera to have no visible wires w/o interfering with the airbags. Basically you go down the A pillar to the floor, run it along there under the sill plates, then up the C pillar.

 

Too bad there is no way to use the rear bed camera or the rear camera to record what is happening behind you.

 

I was wondering about that, but that is from the front camera to the back one. For the upper trim level models the front camera is a plug and play.

On my 2nd from the bottom STX trim it is involved, running a power wire above the windshield, down the A pillar then to the 12V cigarette lighter outlet on the dash. Maybe Ford will provide a power source for the back windshield on the upper trims as the rear facing dash cams gain popularity? I am punting this project, not excited about fishing the wire down the A pillar by the speaker and side air bag, then under the glove box.


Wire path from mirror panel across windshield, then down A pillar.


Wire path from A pillar down the door trim then across under the glove box to the 12V outlet.

 

The OEM 3 back windows are 15 tint, 20 you can't see into the truck from outside it.

 

Thanks for that info.