Reversing camera clip on monitor

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 It was intermittent for a time. Moody! Sometimes it would work. And sometimes it wouldn't! 

It should have automatically come on when reverse gear was engaged. It should have come on when the little handheld remote was pressed. But both experiences were always somewhat hit and miss. 

More often than not I had to deploy the 'walking reversing camera monitor' and she didn't like it when it was wet! 

After six months of erratic behaviour, it threw a real wobbly on a day out to Exmouth - the monitor that is not the human walking reversing camera - although she was getting close to one one day as well.

 First the cab based monitor came on after a long absence. Unexpectedly. Bit of a shock. Then the image inverted. That messed with my head. Following cars were upside down!

And then it died ..... sort of......a sort of black screen with a pink streaky line down its right hand side. 

And so today the old monitor stuck onto the rear view mirror with duck tape - yes you read correctly - duck tape - the sticky stuff with little colourful ducks on it - hence duck tape - anyway, it was finally replaced. Binned. 

We had checked all the connections, tested all the fuses; but it was a techie at our newish motorhome servicing centre just down the road from us who spent exactly four minutes in the cab before announcing "the monitors knackered mate" 

It took the same techie just five minutes to fit the new one. The cabling runs under the roof lining, not down the door pillars as in most motorhomes! 

£300 all up - labour, VAT and the new clip on monitor. 

Nice to have a rear view again!