I recently bought a 2014 Jeep Cherokee trailhawk with no backup camera. I was wondering if I can get one installed that will work with my current display?

 

I thought the comfort/convenience package was standard on the Limited and Trailhawk versions? Do you have the smaller 5" radio display instead of the 8.4"?

As an aside, the placement of the backup cam on my 2014 sucks. It's smack dab in the middle of the hatch and seems to collect dust and dirt pretty quick. The resolution is only so-so compared to other cars like the Hondas.

Must have been the same designer that put the headlights low on the front and decided the Trailhawks would have anemic standard halogen bulbs instead of HID like the Limiteds. The first upgrade I did was installing an HID kit from Xenon Depot. https://www.xenondepot.com/2014-jeep...hid-kit-review. Massive improvement, highly recommend.

 

headlights low on front allow a beam to be cast further and also outward and give best low visibility in snow or fog but it also means the light it does cast can’t start nearby at the higher lines of sight and then slope down over distance which in a low speed from conditions like deer or bad winds etc it isn’t as reassuring. But I’m sure that someone could put a light at for non-other drivers around to help at those times

rhsre is almost no space on the rear of these cars a backup camera could go. But it would have been a stelllar idea to implement a self cleaning system that uses windshield washer fluid somehow because a crossover will always have a nasty dirt tendency because of aerodynamics of a box with a sharp cutoff straight to the ground

 

Being low also makes it much harder to aim them properly, and any weight in the back tends to tip them up into oncoming eyes worse that having them placed higher up.

Now if I can just get people to stop using their fog lights as driving lights. The don't do anything to see farther, and mostly just throw light up into oncoming drivers eyes and actually make the backscatter worse in fog and snow. I have a set of brighter LED bulbs in mine, and use them instead of the headlights for slow speed off-roading because they throw the light everywhere up close and not down the road where I don't need it.

 

Infotainment.com would be the best place to go to get a plug-'n'-play backup camera for your radio. You install it in the factory location, and then they give you an OBD-II programmer to program the radio to accept it.

-Vince