Not sure who you mean but in 2021 I installed the Eway Ford F150/250/350 tailgate camera but I don't see it on Amazon now and my link doesn't work anymore. The camera has been great. I did have a minor issue where it stopped working but it was my own fault, the connector had worked loose behind the tail light where I stashed it. After pushing it back together I wrapped it with Scotch 33 and it has been fine ever since. I am using it with a Pioneer AVH NEX head unit. There are others on Amazon that look identical and past experience tells me they are probably all the same.

 

Not cheap but definitely worthwhile is a dashcam with at least front and rear cameras.

 

Captured videos don't lie.

Some years back I was sucked up in to a situation and video evidence won the day.

 

drive cameras are the way to go these days... to many soy milk sucking scumbags who do not bother to have a license let alone insurance.

 

Tempmeter ziptied to antenna

 

A cheap/easy alternative to a tuner, the MapMod in my signature.

 

That's a problem in Japan too?

 

Soy product delivery in Japan.

 

Am I uncovering too much of my inner geek by admitting InitialD was a good show?

 

I hadn’t heard of this mod but I just read through your thread from 2018. Anyone still running this setup?

 

yes the japanese compulsurary insurance system is run by the Land Transportation Office. they track vehicles that have been properly inpsected, and as such have insurance. the following ws reported 4th quarter 2022

Currently about 20% of all vehicle in kanagawa have not been re-inspected but still have plates. leading Kanagawa prefectural police to belive that at least 15% of all cars on the road in Kanagawa are not properly inspected and insured.

now in this you will have probably half of those are cars of special interest (classic sports cars, competition vehicles etc. ) that live their life on the back of a roll back safety loader (car carrier) so they never touch the actual road, no harm no foul..
so that leaves about 10-7.5% depending upon whom you ask, still unaccounted for... lets say that some of those cars say 5% (from my experience) are cars where the owner does not desire to drive the car, but does not want to return the plates, and does not drive it. these are cars of note where getting plates is hard to begin with (several of mine BTW) so when you are not driving it, you let it lapse, and then when you want to drive it you get temp insurance and temp plates and take it in for inspection. after that its legal beagle.

the balance, anywhere form 2.5-7 % are uninsured driving the roads... this would account for the recent (last 10 years) of cars involved in accidents, where the drivver fled the scene, was not captured and the last legally titled driver claimed it was now missing, from a remote parking place. remember in japan you have to have a registered parking place to register a car, you need to prove proof of owner ship of said parking space, or an active legal lease with the owner, you ahve to provide maps to and from the parking form a notable location within 1 kilometer of said parking, and said parking must be within 2 kilometers of your place of residence.. otherwise no parking permit, no registration, no inspection, no driving of cars.

strangely enough most of these case's are youngsters between the ages of 18 and 25...

ring any bells?

 

wow,
what a convoluted mess that is...
you must own your parking space?
or at minimum have a lease on it?

what a crock.

 

yes you either own, or have a lease that is the same as a lease on house. this is typical in all areas of Japan except for unincorporated areas. (think) montana, north dakota etc.

I am fortunate...lucky... or hard headed. when we bought I insisted on 4 Japanese car parking minimum.. that was two for cars... one for wife, one for me and one for my track car.. and one for parts. (mini shed to hold parts and tools etc..) we actually ended up with 7 (Japanese) car parking prior to building of mini shop which reduced us to 5. when i started frame build of shop with lift it reduced us to four and it began a fight with the local city hall that is still active to this day... i refuse to pull down the frame of the shop i was building... they can do nothing as since it does not have a roof, it is not a building... we stand on either side of the mutual destruction nuke line and make funny faces at each other. that's why i originally bought property in Fuji its unincorporated so no stupid city laws to stop me from building my dream house/ retirement garage... i know it is not much by US/Indiana standards... but it makes me happy. and I built it and there are no bills.. it was paid for one step at a time while i built it so screw them. I still have to pay property tax on it, but the taxes at Fuji are much cheaper then at Yokosuka.. and nothing, i repeat nothing goes to Yokosuka city... only to the unincorporated area around fuji... which i am copacetic with as they are cool and do not have a stick stuck up their backside. sorry for the rant.. i hate the city officials from yokosuka city, kanagawa prefecture... and i poke them in the eye as often as i legally can as a result.
end rant.

 

should ahve said this earlier... socialism at its finest... it has its ups and downs, according to the law all must have insurance, but there are no safeguards for the average person if the scofflaw runs or absconds...

in the US you pay more for full coverage insurance or go with basic. her everybody is required to have basic, but lately some have been ignoring this fact and it quite simply boils down to the bureaucratic controls they have in place do not work. the answer? make more stupid laws that have no real effect. sounds just like the US does it not?

its a cluster****.

 

that is why I always carry "uninsured motorist"
it doubles my rates, sigh