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jst



Member Since: 14 Jan 2008
Location: Taunton
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 2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Stornoway Grey
Wolfbox rear Camera
Has anyone tried one of these of have experience of a reliable hard wired rear camera with a screen that goes over the top or replaces the interior mirror?

Such as

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175876383148 Cheers

James
110 2012 XS Utility
130 2011 M57 bespoke Camper
90 2010 Hardtop
90 M57 1988 Hardtop
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BuckBlu110



Member Since: 19 Apr 2014
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United Kingdom 1994 Defender 110 BMW M57 3.0 Diesel CSW Buckingham Blue
Not a wolf box but have fitted a very similar type dash cam/mirror from Amazon, think it’s called jansite.
I believe most of these lower priced camera mirrors are basically the same.
Fitted it to our freelander 2.
It’s only been fitted a couple of months and can certainly recommend. It’s hard wired in and all the cables are hidden out of sight.
Touch wood, it’s been faultless. I’ve got it set up so the rear cam feed is always showing when driving so is kind of like clear view on the newer models but has slightly wider field of view and the screen allows you to scroll down the view for the added benefit of the use as a reverse camera with just one camera.
I like it so much, I’ve just bought a very similar one for my 110. This one is a Pelsee and has a gps speed readout on the screen also.
I’ve already got a reverse camera set up on my Defender so this is essentially just a rear view camera/front/rear dash cam, which in my case is an upgrade as my vehicles tend to be full of stuff/dogs and I can now actually see out the back!.
The only downsides with both of them is that the sunvisors hit them when they’re dropped right down as they’re bigger than the standard mirror (both my cams are the 10inch versions) and the camera is on the passenger side of the mirror so the front camera view favours the near side ever so slightly but the field of view is wide enough to cover enough of the front of the vehicle.
Post #1057896 19th Jan 2025 7:31pm
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jst



Member Since: 14 Jan 2008
Location: Taunton
Posts: 8131
 2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Stornoway Grey
Cheers, hadn't thought on sum visors, will check those other makes. Cheers

James
110 2012 XS Utility
130 2011 M57 bespoke Camper
90 2010 Hardtop
90 M57 1988 Hardtop
Post #1057932 19th Jan 2025 11:41pm
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24heuer



Member Since: 21 Jul 2015
Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 168
Scotland 2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 CSW Keswick Green
I was given the Wolfbox g900 for my Puma from the family for Christmas.

The rear camera is great as a mirror - I hadn't realised what a whole new world I'd been missing before.
With the dog guard and tinted glass I'd been relying on the door mirrors.
I fitted the rear camera inside the rear door stuck to the underside of the brake light.
I didn't bother hooking it up to the reverse light as I already had a Garmin rear parking camera on my satnav - plus the wolfbox field of view is pretty large and using your finger on the mirror you can scroll the mirror view up and down to see further down (does that make sense? Smile)
My rear window is tinted and doesn't seem to affect the camera.

I got the ODB cable with mine so it draws it's power from there.
There is an inline switch to select a minimum voltage before it stops the time-lapse recording when the vehicle is parked.
However I have mine set to the maximum and I think that function could be draining the battery too far.
It is possible to disable this parked mode feature.
One of my boys got one for his Golf and that instead has the wiring to the fuse box with a couple of piggyback connectors.
His doesn't have this issue.

It also comes with a gps antenna on a stupidly long cable - I've left mine in the box.
I guess if you wanted the full dash cam features to record exact time and location of an incident it should be fitted.

The front camera is 4k btw and is fantastic - you swipe left or right to switch between rear/front/combined views.

I've not experienced any trouble with mirror blocking the sun visors other that the mrs ramming the thing out the way without notice to get the visor down Very Happy
It hooks onto the existing mirror so you can still swivel it about.

In summary I'm enjoying mine as a rear view mirror.
I've not bothered with any of the dash cam stuff yet due to time.
I need to investigate the ODB lead to see if the minimum power selector is set correctly before I try Parked mode again.
Oh and it's pretty big and initially I thought it would obscure too much of the windscreen but it seems fine.
The instructions are rubbish also and translation to English is awful in places - from the ads I'd thought it was from the US but it's probably Chinese. Cheers,
Andy...
Edinburgh, Scotland
http://24heuer.com
Post #1057944 20th Jan 2025 9:22am
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