Back up camera blinding at night.

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Vamoosa

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My sister recently bought a 17 suburban.The back up camera works great during the day but it lights up the whole interior space at night.She doesn't have a chrome license plate cover and we covered the lights for the license plate and that didn't make a difference but as soon as she put in neutral it works great at night.Is there a possibility it has the wrong back up bulbs and that's causing it to be blinding at night?
 

Big Mama

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It could be someone wanted more light and since bulbs are cheap try that first.
 

Marky Dissod

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Bulbs that give off 'white' light (500K +) can be glaring or blinding
in situations where a sunnier yellowish light (4500K - 5000K) would make things easier to look at and see.

I also put tiny little 'blinders' on my previous 2012 Yukon XL's backup cam to protect it from rain and stray lighting.
Made things much easier to see.
 

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