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From what the 'experts' told me, the OEM back-up camera is a digital CanBus unit and is not compatible with the Pioneer which needs a standard video camera, so if you want the picture on the larger radio screen you have to install a new camera which uses a co-axial video cable - Mount a new camera and run a new cable to the rear of the van - I wasn't interested in doing that So, when I 'wasted' $75 on the first interface harness to install the Pioneer only to discover that it did away with the back-up camera I was more than just a little pissed - If you publish a half page of specifications for everything your interface does, you could at least mention that it does away with the camera and you would have to buy and install a new one. I contacted the 'experts' at Crutchfield again about the Axxess XSVI-5524-NAV harness I was looking at and they told me 'none of the harnesses for your Ford retain the camera' . . . . so I called Axxess directly the following Monday and they told me the opposite - It doesn't mess with the camera, so I ordered that one and installed it - Works perfectly. There is an add-on kit if you have steering wheel controls and you want them to work The problem with these new-fangled CanBus controlled cars is that all the info an aftermarket radio needs is on the Bus, so you have to use a little electronic box to pick off the signals you want and send them to the radio - The Axxess XSVI-5524-NAV harness does that and it works with the late model TC's Don