Sport45 wrote:
N-Trouble wrote:
wintersun wrote:
You can forgo the rear camera as it will be of no benefit with the 5th wheel and GM charges $400 for a wiring cable to hook up a third party camera (Ford charges less than $50).
Um, ever try to back into a parking spot or parallel park without the camera? Its not ALL about towing use...
I've been driving pickups since '75 without the benefit of a backup camera. Haven't backed into anything yet. Never had much trouble getting the trailer ball under the coupler by myself either. Usually only had to get out and look twice. Sometimes only once. A couple times it was ready to drop the coupler onto the ball the first time I got out. :)
I see them as a "nice to have" rather than a "must have". If it was part of a package I was getting anyway, I'd take it. I wouldn't pay extra to get one.
I used to see them that way as well, then we got one in the wife's Edge. The only problem is when you get into your older vehicle and you keep looking at the radio, expecting it to turn in to a 9 inch monitor showing the view to the rear of the vehicle. Rear view cameras are very likely to become federally mandated equipment, all it takes is one child being backed over in a driveway.
