This pair of identical shrouds attaches over the stock license plate light lenses using the existing screws. It reduces the spread of the license plate light so that it does not reach the reverse camera from either side. This improves the reverse camera image quality, especially when the reverse camera lens is not perfectly clean. It helps the camera to auto-adjust to the available light without being darkened due to the glare from the license plate lights.
Credit Stu Barnes as the inspiration for this design. He suggested that we create some sort of shroud to solve this problem and after a few iterations this is the result.
Adding these shrouds does not require removing anything but 2x (per side) attachment screws from the license plate lights. These torx-head screws can be re-used to retain the shroud, but the resulting thread engagement is limited. Ideally, longer screws would be sourced. I re-used the original screws but have been careful not to over-tighten. It has been fine.
Virtually any 3d-printed material should work fine for this. The printed parts in the pics are FDM from a Bambu Lab X1 printer using PLA filament.
This was modeled in SolidWorks 2023. DM me for the source file if you want to modify this design.
Credit Stu Barnes as the inspiration for this design. He suggested that we create some sort of shroud to solve this problem and after a few iterations this is the result.
Adding these shrouds does not require removing anything but 2x (per side) attachment screws from the license plate lights. These torx-head screws can be re-used to retain the shroud, but the resulting thread engagement is limited. Ideally, longer screws would be sourced. I re-used the original screws but have been careful not to over-tighten. It has been fine.
Virtually any 3d-printed material should work fine for this. The printed parts in the pics are FDM from a Bambu Lab X1 printer using PLA filament.
This was modeled in SolidWorks 2023. DM me for the source file if you want to modify this design.
