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Power Fold Mirrors installed and fully functional but 360 cameras on pause. As previously mentioned, I was able to make a harness adapter 16pin-to-22pin with a 4pin pigtail for the side camera. Harness went in like a breeze.

 

The hole in the door where the mirror connector sits has to be widen a bit to accommodate the new 22-pin Chinese mirror. Any good rotary tool will do the trick.

 

Took a lot more pictures, available upon request.

 

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Hello everyone,

I’ve been following this thread with a lot of interest — great work from all of you digging into the 360 retrofit! I’ve been wanting to achieve a similar result, but I decided to take a different approach.

I went with a third-party 360 AVM kit and set it up to integrate with the SYNC screen on my 2023 Ford Edge. There really isn’t anything compatible out of the box with the Edge, but I noticed the Edge and Ranger share similar hardware and modules. And notice I said similar — not the same.

It’s been a long process — I’ve done tons of research and a fair amount of trial and error to figure out the video inputs, CANBUS integration, and DIP switch configurations needed to get everything displaying correctly with the factory screen and triggers.
With this I do have dynamic guidelines, parking sensors, multiple views along with the top-down bird view. Also I did retain the factory camera and camera view, and I can jump between factory view and 360 kit view.

It’s still a work in progress, but going this route gives me more flexibility compared to being locked into the OEM restrictions. I’ll share more updates as I continue refining the setup.
Next steps will be to mount all the cameras

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I finally wrapped up the full camera system install on my Edge.
Front Camera

I swapped out the factory grille for a black one that already had the camera mount integrated. Definitely the cleanest way to do it — no drilling and a perfect OEM-style fit.
Side Cameras

The side mirrors were straightforward. Routing the wiring and lining up the cameras was easy. Just a bunch of plastics to remove. 
Rear Camera

This one took the most work. Like I mentioned in my previous post I wanted to retain the factory camera and system, and just add the new camera for the 360 view. I had to get creative. I decided to embed the camera in the logo. Marked and dremel’d out a custom recess behind the Ford emblem. Mounted the camera flush and secured it internally. Ran the wiring through the hatch. Calibrated the image afterward so the lines lined up correctly

Honestly, this was the toughest part, but I’m happy with how the end result looks.

I think I could have done a better job, or maybe could have thought of something else. But also I really wanted to finish the project. 
I think I'm going to redo the calibration after the holidays to get a better results but overall it's good. 

 

If anyone has ideas for cleaner mounting, I’m all ears.

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