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I replaced the backup camera in my 2016 Kia Soul EV
Midwinter this year the backup camera in my 2016 Kia Soul EV started to flake out. At first it was just Max Headrooming, but then, after a week of that, it gave up the ghost completely.<br>I consulted with Dave, my mechanic, and he suspected that it was the camera itself, rather than anything deeper, and suggested I grab a cheap replacement from Amazon rather than paying $400 (part only) to the dealership.<br>So that’s what I did.<br>The part arrived Friday, and I installed it today.<br>Installing the camera itself was easy: just unplug the old one from the wiring connector, remove it, and drop in the new one. It took 5 minutes.<br>Getting to the point where I could actually do that took a few hours: I had to remove a complex series of things to get access to the camera. First came the interior plastic panel on the inside of the hatchback (screws, then prying off the panel with a spatula to dislodge interior clips), and then a strip of exterior body panel that the camera sits into (more screws, then bolts, then more prying, then more screws).<br>I managed to avoid breaking any major parts, only lost one screw and one clip, and once the camera was in place and tested, put everything back together in a “good enough” kind of way.<br>Now I have a backup camera again:<br>It’s pretty clear what caused the camera to fail, from what I found when I removed the pieces needed to access it: there was pretty serious water infiltration from poor sealing, and so parts are rusty, and I suspect the camera simply got fried from the overwhelm of it all.
Monday, June 8, 2026 at 5:50 pm
Peter Rukavina
Kia Soul EV
Backup Camera
DIY
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Well done, I love a good…
Well done, I love a good enough fix!
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