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Shane: Hi, I'm Shane with etrailer.com. Today, I'm going to walk you through how to install Truck Bed Cargo Camera on your 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. Adding a camera like this is going to make hooking up to your fifth wheels and goosenecks a lot easier. We're not going to have to have a second person watching as we back up, or we're not going to have to try looking through our back window. This is going to work with eight inch monitor, factory monitors. Our camera is going to have 360 degrees of movement.

It's also going to give us guidelines. So when we're backing up, we can make sure that we're coming in straight. Or it's going to give us a distance of where we are.As you can see here, it has a nice, clean factory look. It's going to mount directly behind our factory light, and our camera is going to hang a little bit down below it. As you can see, right now we're using our factory camera, but as we're backing up to our gooseneck, or fifth wheel, we can switch it.

It's going to override that camera to help us see a lot better when we're backing up to that king pin.So you'll notice the flashing triangle. That's because our tailgate is down and our centers on our bumper are covered. So when we switch it over, you'll still see that triangle, but what you'll notice is, we got plenty of bed view so we can see anything in our bed while we're backing up. One thing that's nice about this camera is, we're not going to have to sacrifice one to get the other. We can still utilize our factory camera if we're pulling a trailer on our hitch.Now that we've gone over some of the features, let me walk you through how to get it installed.

To start our installation we're going to take a torx bit and we're going to remove the two screws on our rear light. We'll pull our light out, and we're going to disconnect this plug. We're just going to push down on this gray tab.Now, an easy way I've found to do this rather than trying to take these panels off, if you pull your weather stripping off a little bit, we need to get our wire back behind our headliner. Take an airline tube or wire hanger, if you have one, feed it up above your liner over to that hole where your light was. Now we can take our wire and attach it to the end of our airline tube and pull it back over this way.One thing you do want to do is make sure you clean off any dirt or dust or anything under underneath here, like this.

Another thing I forgot to mention, you want to make sure you're going to the passenger side, not the driver's side with your wires. In your kit you're going to get two different foam strips. We're going to be using the thinner one because our screws are a little bit shorter and will not fit with the bigger one. We're going to take this on the back of our camera and we're going to stick it right around these edges. The thicker seal is going to be for the back of the light. So if yours is torn or damaged in any way, go ahead and pull that off and replace it with the new one.Now we're going to do this. We're going to take our wire. We're going to put it onto our airline tube or wire hanger, whatever you use them. We're going to put a little bit of electrical tape on there so we don't lose it in the roof as we're trying to pull it through. That'll kind of hold it. We're going to take our wire and we're going to feed it right through this little slot here. We're going to take the end, put it into our airline tube. We're going to put a little bit of electrical tape in it so we don't lose it inside of our headliner as we're trying to pull it out.Plug your light back in. Get it lined up, and we can reinstall our screws. You want to make sure when putting these in, you don't over-tighten them, because you don't want to crack your light.Once you get your wire pulled out, you're going to have a plug that looks like this. You're going to take this in, it's going to plug in to the wire going back to the light. Before we do this, we're going to go ahead and take this wire and we're going to run it up to the dash. We've got a couple of different ways we can do it. We can go down and under, or we can go up the top, which to me, I think is going to be the easiest way, because we can just take it and tuck it in right underneath our headliner and then put our weather stripping back in place.So you can see how I ran my wire. Pulled my weather stripping off. You want to make sure you take that wire and tuck it up back behind that airbag. You want to make sure it's not going to interfere with the operation of the bag. Went all