Pinout for Stock GM Back Up Camera - FYI

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Topic: Pinout for Stock GM Back Up Camera - FYI

Posted By: knoble
Subject: Pinout for Stock GM Back Up Camera - FYI
Date Posted: March 12, 2010 at 6:08 PM

I obtained a new 2010 GM truck tailgate handle with the built in back up camera to connect to my aftermarket radio and is a direct fit for my tailgate.

My only issue was I didn't know what the pinout for the camera was. There were six wires for this camera and being it was so new I could not find any diagrams for it. After a few tries I figured out the pinout and thought I would share.

Red - 12V positive

Black - 12V negative

Yellow - Video out +

Brown - Video out -

White - Shield for video wires (yellow & Brown)

Blue - Positive turn on lead (sending 12V+ to it turns on the camera)

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Posted By: dudek38
Date Posted: June 08, 2010 at 4:45 PM

how did u convert the 3 wires to a 2 wire coax?

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owner of
Motion Marine & Car Audio
the florida keys

Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: June 08, 2010 at 5:05 PM

Thanks for the info, we have an avalanche coming in Thursday to attempt to get vid from the camera.

Posted By: knoble
Date Posted: June 08, 2010 at 7:03 PM

dudek38 wrote:

how did u convert the 3 wires to a 2 wire coax?

I tied the brown wire and the shield wire together and then soldered an RCA end onto the wires.

Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: June 10, 2010 at 9:35 AM

2010 avalanche has only 4 wires. If you cut the grey harness a few inches from the camera, it contains 4 wires. Red Black White and a shield. If you look at the plug 8 inches down line where it plugs to the tailgate harness the wiring is a bit different. Red Black White and yellow. On the plug white is shield and yellow is video. I cut the grey cable in order to be able to reconnect if needed, in that harness white is video and shield is shield.

Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: June 11, 2010 at 9:49 PM

Spent the morning installing a pac piece into an OEM nav unit, only to find out from PAC that the radio they ordered was already programmed to accept a back up camera. Removed the pac unit from the deck and had to wire the camera to the brown plug that has a GREEN / WHITE wire at pin 5. Pin 6 is video and pin7 is video ground. 2010 Avalanche integrated back up camera works great following instructions from above post.

2 back up cameras in 2 days reminds me that I am too old to be sliding around on concrete floors.

Posted By: dudek38
Date Posted: June 13, 2010 at 12:08 PM

what about if you didnt have the brown(3rd) plug bcuz the video goes to rear view mirror and didnt have factory nav. i added avicd3 and am trying to get / share video w the fact mirror and factory cam in tailgate which doesnt use coax for video, 2010 silverado.

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owner of
Motion Marine & Car Audio
the florida keys

Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: June 13, 2010 at 2:01 PM

At the camera, do you not have the colors at the initial post here?