Ideas to address truck tail light reflection from camper?

AnEv942: I like this idea a lot. Thanks!

I assume from under wings of camper. Recently redid ours, Mostly to kill reflected glare of tail/brake lights.




I use Henrys sealer/damproofer #107 water/asphalt emulsion. Dries hard & textured flat black (rolled).
But Duplicolors flat black truck bed spray paint from auto parts works well, It has a very fine texture. Or any flat black paint.

Our third brake light/bed light is tied to interior light, I put switches on it. It was worse the reflected tail lights. Pulling those bulbs got old.

Would some type of 12 volt "spot light" mounted high up & wired to your porch light work? You still need light behind the truck when your backing & it's dark outside, but by leaving the truck lights off, & blacking out the back-up lights & using this set-up, maybe ???

On the other hand, I know you said, "aside from a back-up camera" maybe a wireless back-up camera would work best. It could be connected to any 12 volt hot lead (porch light, interior switch). I have one ($55 on Ebay) & it has NIGHT VISION. No lights needed at all. It's clear as day behind me with all lights off. You may still need to do something with the back-up lights, when in reverse, but ?

nomadic1962 wrote:
Paint the inside of the overhang Black. Works great!

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Paint the inside of the overhang Black. Works great!

All the lights in the rear have to have a ground. You could add a relay that the lights ground through. I'd wire it up so that when I applied power to the new relay (using a switch on the dash) it interrupted the ground path for the taillights. It would require a 5 terminal relay and some wire and time. You could kill as many lights as you wanted to by removing their ground path.

You could put blue painters tape over the tail light lenses before loading the camper.