AUTO-VOX V5Pro; What it Replaced

A look at the rear view mirror and my original backup camera in the 1985 Toyota 4Runner.

Some 20 years ago, I made a bracket for my old Automan Vision Systems VS-2 rear view mirror camera. This bracket is approx. 3" wide x 4" tall (75mm x 100mm) , with 3 holes drilled to match the OEM mirror bracket. There's a tab welded to the back edge that's drilled and tapped to fit a mirror mounting shoe to. Then there's an opening in the middle to pass the camera cable through. I'm sure there are other ways of doing this, but this is what I came up with 20 years ago and it works.

The old VS-2 system did have some interesting features. The external temperature sensor with on-screen display was nice and something that the V5Pro lacks. It also had the magnetic compass sensor that I could never get to calibrate properly. It only had the alphabetic direction indicators, the V5Pro uses the GPS receiver for the compass display. I like the physical compass display better, although I wish it rotated to keep the direction of travel at the top. The last feature the VS-2 had was a pair of ultrasonic distance detectors that would display an indicator on the display when you got "close to" some object. I could never get these to work reliably. I don't think they had an actual distance measurement displayed, just a symbol when you got within the distance limit.

This is an AUTO-VOX V5Pro Rear View Mirror Camera:
https://amzn.to/3E2efOf

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