Mike's Car Toys

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Cameras & Safety Tech

See what's behind you, and have a record of what happened in front of you.

Dash cam and backup camera monitor mounted in a truck cab

Backup cameras aren't just for backing up — on a lifted truck or a work van they cover the whole area a mirror can't see. If your vehicle already has a factory screen, we can usually feed a camera into it so it looks like it came that way. If it doesn't, we'll fit a tidy monitor or a mirror with the display built in.

Dash cams have quietly become the cheapest insurance there is. A hardwired cam runs off the fuse box instead of dangling from the lighter socket, keeps recording while parked, and shuts down before it flattens your battery. We fit the wiring inside the headliner and A-pillar so there's no cable across the windshield.

Parking sensors round it out for tight downtown spots and trailer hitching — audible distance warnings front, rear or both.

What we install

  • Backup cameras into factory screens where the vehicle supports it
  • Camera + monitor kits for vehicles with no screen
  • Mirror-mount and licence-plate cameras
  • Front, side and blind-spot cameras
  • Single and dual-channel dash cams, hardwired for parking mode
  • Trailer and box-truck rear cameras with long cable runs
  • Front and rear parking sensors, painted to match
  • Memory cards and capacitor-based cams that survive summer heat

Why have it done properly

The hard part is never the camera; it's the cable. A rear camera run means pulling trim, feeding through a tailgate or door boot, and picking up a reverse-light trigger that switches the display at the right moment. Skip that and you get a camera that stays on, flickers, or dies the first time the tailgate is opened in the cold.

Hardwired dash cams need a fuse tap on the right circuit and a low-voltage cutoff, or you come out to a dead battery. We use proper add-a-fuse taps and set the cutoff to suit how often the vehicle gets driven.

Add eyes to the vehicle.

Tell us the vehicle and what you want it to do. We'll tell you straight what it takes and what it costs.

519-355-0496

253 Richmond St, Chatham

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