Rear parking camera

I saw a picture from the factory. There is an oval cutout (approx. 1.75 inch x .75 inch- my guess), recessed in the center rear bumper right above the rear license plate area (that is above the marker lights) and below the silver horse on the horizontal body line. Dead center in the oval cutout is the lense, same as you would see in any vehicle. The lense is encircled by a body color recessed plastic insert. I think it could have been better located in a more obscure area. I ordered it as I dislike the parking sensors and rear vision is a bit limited in the 458. I also have a tight turnaround at my garage, limited by a large and well built stone wall. No idea how the picture quality is. I had to make a final spec decision quickly. I spoke to a good aftermarket auto audio/radar installer. He was unaware of anyone making a camera with a simple plug in interface that would work with the Cali or 458 screens.

 

There is an aftermarket solution that integrates the rear camera display into the nav unit on a Calfornia. Not sure if it will work on a 458 though. See this post by fchat member genepope -

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=139354457&postcount=54

 

Parking sensors is all what you need. I've the cam in my S-class and i never bothered to use it!!

 

My dealer was suggesting both the rear camera and rear sensors. That made me drop the camera. He said that in his experience people were very used to the beep beeeeeep beeeeeeeeep and missed it if they did not have it

 

The beeeep beeep is more than enough.

 

It's a sexy feature that is pretty useless. Who backs up while looking forward? I don't. I'm sure not going to rely on a camera to tell me if I'm about to hit something.

The beeps give me input while my own eyes can look reward thank you.

Cameras are great for everyday use of something like a mini van where you might have kids playing behind you and you can't see them in the window. But that's really unlikely in a sports car.

 

The "beep beep beep" sounds good to me.

 

My wife went from a camera (2004 Lexus) to one with only sensors (2008 BMW 535 - at the time no camera avail). She's now back to a Lexus (BMW was a reliability nightmare) with a camera, but no sensors (part of some hard to find package in the rare color she wanted). The bottom line is she really misses those sensors...turns out they were actually alot more useful than the camera.

I have an S class with both. My Cali has sensors only, no regrets.

 

just make sure to order front and rear sensors

 

camera is totally useless. especially on a 458!

 

You can open the pdf on the page showing the camera pic then do a Ctrl/Print Scrn to capture the screen image. Paste it into something like MSPaint and save it as a jpeg file. That will allow you to post the pic here.

 

quite a funny story, getting someone on the production line to take a photo.
mhh, wise choice on the camera, while im sure its practical, it looks horrible

 

+1

 

Very easy to do

 

What sort of % of the total price is options? 10-20%?

 

Doesn't look any worse than the parking sensors.

 

What's a budget? Too funny... I had the exact same thoughts while building out mine, then of course just ordered what I wanted regardless of cost. You only live once! Enjoy yours!
This was a very helpful discussion. Thanks all.