I just installed an Auto Vox CS2 camera on the rear licence plate of my 2017 Ford Transit Connect. I first attached the camera to the licence plate, then I removed the licence plate light, then I used a file to make the corner of the light opening slightly bigger to accommodate the camera cable, ran the camera cable through, then reinstalled the licence plate light. (I think that I will put some silicone around this light now just to make sure to keep water out)....I then removed the left rear lighting unit (4 screws) to get at the reverse light. All of the wires into the rear lighting unit were black, no colours at all. So I used a multimeter to find out which wire running to the reverse light was ground and which was 12v DC. .....I then ran the camera cable back through the door and into the conduit running into the van. I then had to run the camera cable (black and red wires) out through the rubber seal into the rear lighting unit. I had to drill a tiny hole in the rubber seal to do this. Once I had the red and black camera cables ran as far as the reversing light I attached the red camera wire to the 12v wire going into the reversing light, I then attached the black camera wire to the ground wire going into the reversing light. The Auto Vox CS2 provides you with 2 little wire taps for connecting the wires. With a second person and all the tools ready to go it took about half an hour. But It took me a lot of time online to figure all this out before hand, so I hope this can be of help to anyone trying to do this in the future. P.s. camera works just great.
for £91 may as well buy a double din stereo with a screen that gives you Bluetooth,Sat nav, airplay and the ability to hook up rear view camera but either way great video none the less
Yeah a cheap Chinese one that will work when it wants a good double din will cost 300 if not more then you have all the other parts you need wires frame well over 300 in the end
Mad to think that in 20 years parking won't be a thing and it will basically all done by a computer, great vid James, props for being old school using the mirrors and Windows lol
I had a reverse camera similar to that fitted to my number plate and had a warning from the mot inspector because it was obscuring one of my numbers, he still passed it but was a bit concerned. I have now fitted a better reverse camera which is actually incorporated into the number plate light ! Only £7 from eBay and is wired into same plugs as the old one, viewer is on my Android head unit and automatically switches on when reverse is selected 👍
Got a similar gitbee branded one. eBay twenty quid. Fitted to my lwb 1961 landy. Camera up at roof height ,I can see both sides of the back and the tow ball. In the red zone I'm 2" from whatever it is. Working from my reverse light which is a dash controlled fog lamp bolt to the roof at the back I've no power steering so can't just palm steer whilst looking back. Anyway it's often steamed right up so I can't see fa backwards at all. The only issue I think I might get is grime on the camera lens ,all the road shit goes straight up the back. Could sort a relay to flick a lens cover away. We'll see.
There are a couple of very cheap 'head units' that have sat nav and the ability to connect a reversing camera to them also.. Something like this.....No affiliation... www.ebay.co.uk/itm/XTRONS-Single-One-DIN-7-HD-Car-CD-DVD-Player-GPS-SAT-NAV-Bluetooth-Stereo-Radio/122189134399
I'd had plugged it through one of the constant power cables giving you the camera on at all times tbh. Also mounted the camera at the bottom of the licence plate. Good vid
Whenever you see rust, give it a quick rub with a wire brush and slap some rust convertor on it. May not solve the problem but will certainly delay the corrosion.
@@ndavies5968 Very true, when they first came out, they were selling £250++, but now you can pick up a sat Nav for £50. Not worth stealing. Also... Nowadays.. people just use thier phone...I use my phone and Waze app. Waze is differently the best map app for me, so much better than sat Nav
How far is each colour approximately from rear of car? ie is green a mtr? or red 100mm? Would be good to know before I would think abt it as my van has no rear Windows etc cheers
@@c7uk nope. Maybe I wanted to say "the lack of the mirror effect". I'm not sure how to describe it, but when you use the mirror, you're sure what the car will do when whatever you do. With this, I'd constantly be fighting the urge to do what my instinct tells me to do. Weird.
Uluç Özcan - I think I know what you’re getting at: when you look in a mirror you know it’s a mirror; when you look at a screen your brain tells you it’s not a true reflection as the angles don’t compute. There’s a disconnect between what you see and what you think you should see
@@c7uk true that. It may be a psychological thing (motor learning stuff). For instance, I have always used the brake with my right foot and "my foot" knows how much to press to comfortably stop; and not "my brain". When you try to brake with your left foot for a red light, all hell breaks loose.
Thought guillotine is a pretty tidy way of saying that. Been a domestic sparks for about 15 years. Now retired. My wife recently passed her driving test so solwly sowly, getting into being a home mechanic! You have a sub.
I have a reverse camera on my automatic Renault Clio mk3 58 plate and would like a screen like that for mine as mine is built in the mirror but has connection that allows you to change the screen only problem with that camera though is the fact people may think it’s a satnav and smash your windows to break in and steal the thing and the camera part of mine is fixed to the license plate via a license plate holder
Sorry but reversing cameras are not necessary for a car unless you have a disability that affects your neck movements..if you have one for any other reason like low confidence you better rethink your license and if you should hand it back to the government.......
You should have jumped out and taken video of how close you were parked :-) A good application for this device would be in a van. Agree about the delay needed for moving forward but you could just wire it to 12v from ignition rather than the reverse light wire, so it stays on all the time. Hopefully all the units are paired differently. Don't want to find another driver next to you has the same device and you end up crashing your car.
*James, would it not be a great idea to build a small garage next to your house at the end of your driveway?* You could build one yourself or buy a building kit so that you can work dry and warm on your cars in the cold UK days? Maybe collect the money by flipping cars or with a crowdfunding?
it's OK but I would say it's more ideal for vans and minibuses. using your phone as the screen would of been better. I'm sure bluudys garage done a phone app one. I correct myself, bluudy done wireless parking sensors with phone app
sweet vid. Much better to solder onto the tracks that are part of the light cluster that you show at 8:03, you just need to sand the metal for the solder to take (think it's galvanized) I put a dashcam in my rear window once, appeared to work great until I realised the liveish wifi feed had a 30 second delay LOL
Reverse parallel parking is where I think it would be most beneficial as I'll often look behind me and think I'm right on a car and when I get out there was still more space.
just bought the Auto Vox M1W .i was buying a dash cam and the rear cam was 25% off if you buy the pair ,so the price for the D5 HD 1520p dash cam was £69.99 totalling £131.98 for both,hopefully ill be fitting it over the weekend,maybe i should have watched this first lol
Do like your videos mate but wouldn't it have been better to try an android head unit (android auto) and pair it with a pi cam..keep up the vids by the way.
Great video. I own a van with no rear windows so this would be ideal. Also I would like to fix one up high on the side to check for traffic at junctions. Has anyone fitted one on a van ???
many faults It NOT bluetooth, Driving with your phone in your hand, all that smoke coming out of the car exhaust. I guess the suction cup is not working as you need Clean Glass for it to stick and looking at the car well :(
Always thought is was stupid and dangerous for cars to only have one reversing light...especially low down..if that fiesta was parked on the right hand side facing on coming traffic someone coming from behind ( matron ) wouldn't know if they was reversing out
What's the deal with UK number plates? Who supplies them? Plastic??? In Australia they are metal and they are supplied by the registration authority, not private vendors.
Outstanding review. Nice music. £46-99 on amazon right now [for 3.5" screen version]. I am planning to direct-wire one on the rh side corner of the dash. So that cigarette socket and centre of console is free for sat nav/coffee/ etc.
Good video, cool product but too expensive £50 would be a reasonable price imo, looks like a sat nav which means broken Windows but surely navs are not that desirable now due to phones doing same job? Or mount it up near rear view mirror
I got the best rated one of Amazon for my Van's and tipper truck there clear as day if you want it on while going forward aswell wire it to your rear position lamp so when you put your side lights on it will come on simple
2:32 "for some reason it's fallen off"... because it's a pos... wireless reverse camera should have no wires whatsoever maybe except power wiring to the cars cabling... it's a standart car camera with a external screen. get a decent stereo that has rear camera which all cabling is hidden instead of the bulky system, even better get the car built in with it... My car has all the cameras and the sensors which i've yet relied on. Safetywise rear view cameras and all that sensor means the driver has no sensory awareness and shouldn't be driving..
The problem's that you void your insurance by hardwiring anything which isn't original to the car. That's why I used to place the camera on rear windscreen, stick the monitor with blu tack only, and use cigarette plug to power both the camera and monitor. The camera and monitor would be on all the time but it's legal at least.
Rewired my landy from scratch. 1961 with reverse\work light ,interior lights, cigarette lighter socket,trailer socket,all wired in and now a reversing cam piggy backing on the work light. Where do I stand?( Don't care)
Great video as far as the steps involved are concerned. I'd be working on a different way to mount that screen as the suction cup thingys are useless in the hot sun...they pop with great regularity. Personally I wouldn't buy one of these. I have two cars...one has a built-in reverse screen and camera, the other doesn't. I'm an old fart so despite the screen being there I still automatically use my mirrors... Conditioning after forty years of driving! LOL!
Fitted something like this in my car. Bought a cheap camera and a rear view mirror with a built in screen which you can get with the factory mounting points rather than fitting over the factory mirror
If i drive a vehicle with a reverse camera.....i only use it for distance once i get the vehicle in the position i want it in by parking the traditional way
Not something id buy, but its probably handy if you've a bigger car. And what did you put your plate back on with? I used gorrilla glue, and probably too much as its expanded out the edges 😂. Enjoying the content.
I agree with wanting it to stay on for a further 10secs or so after coming out of reverse. BTW your supposed to use it in ADDITION to your mirrors and windows, not instead of ;)
I normally Push the metal connection between the two wires down flush with a a pair of pliers, then snap shut the hindged bit of plastic over the top of it. They aren't the best way of connecting two wires, I think that they engineer a weekness into the joint. Just my observation.
I just though it wise to point out that some insurers consider reversing cameras and reversing sensors (that aren’t fitted from new) to be a modification and no doubt they will quibble over any claims if you don’t declare it.
I just installed an Auto Vox CS2 camera on the rear licence plate of my 2017 Ford Transit Connect. I first attached the camera to the licence plate, then I removed the licence plate light, then I used a file to make the corner of the light opening slightly bigger to accommodate the camera cable, ran the camera cable through, then reinstalled the licence plate light. (I think that I will put some silicone around this light now just to make sure to keep water out)....I then removed the left rear lighting unit (4 screws) to get at the reverse light. All of the wires into the rear lighting unit were black, no colours at all. So I used a multimeter to find out which wire running to the reverse light was ground and which was 12v DC. .....I then ran the camera cable back through the door and into the conduit running into the van. I then had to run the camera cable (black and red wires) out through the rubber seal into the rear lighting unit. I had to drill a tiny hole in the rubber seal to do this. Once I had the red and black camera cables ran as far as the reversing light I attached the red camera wire to the 12v wire going into the reversing light, I then attached the black camera wire to the ground wire going into the reversing light. The Auto Vox CS2 provides you with 2 little wire taps for connecting the wires. With a second person and all the tools ready to go it took about half an hour. But It took me a lot of time online to figure all this out before hand, so I hope this can be of help to anyone trying to do this in the future. P.s. camera works just great.
Thanks for the review. A nice bonus would have been if you got out of the car to show us how close you were to the bushes when it was at the red line.
for £91 may as well buy a double din stereo with a screen that gives you Bluetooth,Sat nav, airplay and the ability to hook up rear view camera but either way great video none the less
£91!! No thanks! :D
Robert yes that’s what I have in my mk4 Mondeo, works as soon as you select reverse gear!
Yeah a cheap Chinese one that will work when it wants a good double din will cost 300 if not more then you have all the other parts you need wires frame well over 300 in the end
Dude i have the double din that can allow for the rear view camera. How do i go about this
@@jp5210 sir that was a yearago, what would say a good dbl din one is now? 200 ukp?
Mad to think that in 20 years parking won't be a thing and it will basically all done by a computer, great vid James, props for being old school using the mirrors and Windows lol
I had a reverse camera similar to that fitted to my number plate and had a warning from the mot inspector because it was obscuring one of my numbers, he still passed it but was a bit concerned. I have now fitted a better reverse camera which is actually incorporated into the number plate light ! Only £7 from eBay and is wired into same plugs as the old one, viewer is on my Android head unit and automatically switches on when reverse is selected 👍
I have that too im my corsa 2011
Got a similar gitbee branded one. eBay twenty quid. Fitted to my lwb 1961 landy. Camera up at roof height ,I can see both sides of the back and the tow ball. In the red zone I'm 2" from whatever it is. Working from my reverse light which is a dash controlled fog lamp bolt to the roof at the back I've no power steering so can't just palm steer whilst looking back. Anyway it's often steamed right up so I can't see fa backwards at all. The only issue I think I might get is grime on the camera lens ,all the road shit goes straight up the back. Could sort a relay to flick a lens cover away. We'll see.
A good honest review from a free product. Appreciate that.
It seems pretty pointless having that unit on the windscreen just for reversing it should have built in sat nav as well.
There are a couple of very cheap 'head units' that have sat nav and the ability to connect a reversing camera to them also..
Something like this.....No affiliation...
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/XTRONS-Single-One-DIN-7-HD-Car-CD-DVD-Player-GPS-SAT-NAV-Bluetooth-Stereo-Radio/122189134399
The connector on the back of it looks universal and you could buy one that screws into the dash and discard the suction one.
I thought the same thing 😜👍
WD40 works great for removing alot of sticky crap
I use my dash cams for the back to reverse it's quick and cheap no hassle with wiring
Wireless my back side your having a joke
Did you see lag in the video ?
I'd had plugged it through one of the constant power cables giving you the camera on at all times tbh.
Also mounted the camera at the bottom of the licence plate. Good vid
I tried that on admittedly a Chinese camera and it died after about 3weeks.
That's alot of blue smoke the fizzy is chucking out. Guessing it's almost a 2 stroke now. Lol. Good video. Need something like this for the zafira.
Whenever you see rust, give it a quick rub with a wire brush and slap some rust convertor on it. May not solve the problem but will certainly delay the corrosion.
The remarks about your number two and those bush comments made me guffaw, I have the mind of a 12 year old though, well done James.
EASY installation??? BS…
Only problem with those systems is some crackhead will break in thinking it’s a sat nav
wollywotsit lmao
True true
Sat navs arnt worth stealing anymore
@@ndavies5968 Very true, when they first came out, they were selling £250++, but now you can pick up a sat Nav for £50. Not worth stealing. Also... Nowadays.. people just use thier phone...I use my phone and Waze app. Waze is differently the best map app for me, so much better than sat Nav
Didn’t realize you already commented this but I said the very same
How far is each colour approximately from rear of car? ie is green a mtr? or red 100mm? Would be good to know before I would think abt it as my van has no rear Windows etc cheers
Kinda missed a big point here mate , what's it like at night ? Not really into the camera but I just like your videos so I watched it anyway haha
Nice little review thanks for the content
Is there a menu selection in the monitor that reverses the image displayed? I've never seen a reversing camera that reversed the image.
"AutoVox Wireless Reverse Camera!
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first 10 minutes is him fucking around with wiring.
Mirror effect in the screen would trip me to the hell. Sensors are just easier
Uluç Özcan - does your rear-view mirror freak you out too??
@@c7uk nope. Maybe I wanted to say "the lack of the mirror effect". I'm not sure how to describe it, but when you use the mirror, you're sure what the car will do when whatever you do. With this, I'd constantly be fighting the urge to do what my instinct tells me to do. Weird.
Uluç Özcan - I think I know what you’re getting at: when you look in a mirror you know it’s a mirror; when you look at a screen your brain tells you it’s not a true reflection as the angles don’t compute. There’s a disconnect between what you see and what you think you should see
@@c7uk true that. It may be a psychological thing (motor learning stuff). For instance, I have always used the brake with my right foot and "my foot" knows how much to press to comfortably stop; and not "my brain". When you try to brake with your left foot for a red light, all hell breaks loose.
Thought guillotine is a pretty tidy way of saying that. Been a domestic sparks for about 15 years. Now retired. My wife recently passed her driving test so solwly sowly, getting into being a home mechanic! You have a sub.
I have a reverse camera on my automatic Renault Clio mk3 58 plate and would like a screen like that for mine as mine is built in the mirror but has connection that allows you to change the screen only problem with that camera though is the fact people may think it’s a satnav and smash your windows to break in and steal the thing and the camera part of mine is fixed to the license plate via a license plate holder
Sorry but reversing cameras are not necessary for a car unless you have a disability that affects your neck movements..if you have one for any other reason like low confidence you better rethink your license and if you should hand it back to the government.......
You should have jumped out and taken video of how close you were parked :-) A good application for this device would be in a van. Agree about the delay needed for moving forward but you could just wire it to 12v from ignition rather than the reverse light wire, so it stays on all the time.
Hopefully all the units are paired differently. Don't want to find another driver next to you has the same device and you end up crashing your car.
Thank you I was a bit hesitant but I am sold about the reverse camera. Not particularly this type but the concept.
I thought it was supposed to be wireless
*James, would it not be a great idea to build a small garage next to your house at the end of your driveway?* You could build one yourself or buy a building kit so that you can work dry and warm on your cars in the cold UK days? Maybe collect the money by flipping cars or with a crowdfunding?
Ilias Lamari I’d happily donate to a crowdfund to get him a new garage. The guy bloody deserves it!
Especially coming into winter it's almost a necessity
it's OK but I would say it's more ideal for vans and minibuses. using your phone as the screen would of been better. I'm sure bluudys garage done a phone app one. I correct myself, bluudy done wireless parking sensors with phone app
sweet vid.
Much better to solder onto the tracks that are part of the light cluster that you show at 8:03, you just need to sand the metal for the solder to take (think it's galvanized)
I put a dashcam in my rear window once, appeared to work great until I realised the liveish wifi feed had a 30 second delay LOL
Reverse parallel parking is where I think it would be most beneficial as I'll often look behind me and think I'm right on a car and when I get out there was still more space.
Will the camera run down the car battery when the reverse monitor is turned off and unplugged
ive a car mirror camera front and back and it was easy to install worth the 23 pound i payed for it off ebay
Great video as usual mate👍🏼 Don’t listen to the negative people, you’re smashing it.
you said it was Wireless why have you got all the wiring if it's wireless ,load of rubbish
Thought **** buy a wireless camera only, mount your phone in a holder, pair the two over wifi, would it work?
Or bluetooth?
Good video this could help someone who is buying the same unit or similar so not sure why this video gets any negative comments
Did I see scotchlocks? Solder and heatshrink is your friend
Hi if got a Mondeo same as you at you got now would it be easy to fit same can
So what part of this piece of shite is wireless 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This guy sounds quite posh. Talks some sense as well
WHAT COUNTRY IS THAT LICENSE PLATE FROM ? ? ?
just bought the Auto Vox M1W .i was buying a dash cam and the rear cam was 25% off if you buy the pair ,so the price for the D5 HD 1520p dash cam was £69.99 totalling £131.98 for both,hopefully ill be fitting it over the weekend,maybe i should have watched this first lol
Hes hot
Not very “wireless” !
Is the gear shift knob a after market product and if so where could I get it from?
Seb_Hopwood12345 ebay mate
Do like your videos mate but wouldn't it have been better to try an android head unit (android auto) and pair it with a pi cam..keep up the vids by the way.
Great video.
I own a van with no rear windows so this would be ideal.
Also I would like to fix one up high on the side to check for traffic at junctions.
Has anyone fitted one on a van ???
Great & entertaining video
You made terrible hard work of that.
many faults It NOT bluetooth, Driving with your phone in your hand, all that smoke coming out of the car exhaust. I guess the suction cup is not working as you need Clean Glass for it to stick and looking at the car well :(
Always thought is was stupid and dangerous for cars to only have one reversing light...especially low down..if that fiesta was parked on the right hand side facing on coming traffic someone coming from behind ( matron ) wouldn't know if they was reversing out
Can the display be hardwired? Don’t want to use cigarette . Also can it be set to constant on?
What's the deal with UK number plates? Who supplies them? Plastic??? In Australia they are metal and they are supplied by the registration authority, not private vendors.
Outstanding review. Nice music. £46-99 on amazon right now [for 3.5" screen version]. I am planning to direct-wire one on the rh side corner of the dash. So that cigarette socket and centre of console is free for sat nav/coffee/ etc.
Good video, cool product but too expensive £50 would be a reasonable price imo, looks like a sat nav which means broken Windows but surely navs are not that desirable now due to phones doing same job? Or mount it up near rear view mirror
I got the best rated one of Amazon for my Van's and tipper truck there clear as day if you want it on while going forward aswell wire it to your rear position lamp so when you put your side lights on it will come on simple
Really great vid these vids are really helpful to me going to get this for my vxr insignia.
Always enjoy your videos been watching for ages. Keep it up mate
You just saved me a mental breakdown with the squeezing of the clamps on the live and ground wiring. Thank you so much
2:32 "for some reason it's fallen off"... because it's a pos... wireless reverse camera should have no wires whatsoever maybe except power wiring to the cars cabling... it's a standart car camera with a external screen. get a decent stereo that has rear camera which all cabling is hidden instead of the bulky system, even better get the car built in with it... My car has all the cameras and the sensors which i've yet relied on. Safetywise rear view cameras and all that sensor means the driver has no sensory awareness and shouldn't be driving..
The problem's that you void your insurance by hardwiring anything which isn't original to the car. That's why I used to place the camera on rear windscreen, stick the monitor with blu tack only, and use cigarette plug to power both the camera and monitor. The camera and monitor would be on all the time but it's legal at least.
Rewired my landy from scratch. 1961 with reverse\work light ,interior lights, cigarette lighter socket,trailer socket,all wired in and now a reversing cam piggy backing on the work light. Where do I stand?( Don't care)
Great video as far as the steps involved are concerned. I'd be working on a different way to mount that screen as the suction cup thingys are useless in the hot sun...they pop with great regularity. Personally I wouldn't buy one of these. I have two cars...one has a built-in reverse screen and camera, the other doesn't. I'm an old fart so despite the screen being there I still automatically use my mirrors... Conditioning after forty years of driving! LOL!
Wireless camera with wires
Fitted something like this in my car. Bought a cheap camera and a rear view mirror with a built in screen which you can get with the factory mounting points rather than fitting over the factory mirror
If i drive a vehicle with a reverse camera.....i only use it for distance once i get the vehicle in the position i want it in by parking the traditional way
Wait the plate is glued? Are screws not used in europe?
Some plate are screwed others use double sided adhesive
can you mirror the image? can you remove those colored guide lines on the screen?
Not something id buy, but its probably handy if you've a bigger car. And what did you put your plate back on with? I used gorrilla glue, and probably too much as its expanded out the edges 😂. Enjoying the content.
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I agree with wanting it to stay on for a further 10secs or so after coming out of reverse. BTW your supposed to use it in ADDITION to your mirrors and windows, not instead of ;)
Those connectors are called scotchlocks and they're notoriously crap. Used to use them back in the day.
very nice product
So much easier taking the bumper off this model fiesta. On the mk6 you have to drill out 2 blind rivets which are a pain to put in too.
I normally Push the metal connection between the two wires down flush with a a pair of pliers, then snap shut the hindged bit of plastic over the top of it. They aren't the best way of connecting two wires, I think that they engineer a weekness into the joint. Just my observation.
Oops, should of watching it to the end 🙈
Nice Facebook marketplace post when I saw the corsa I had the shock of my life 😂
he selling the corsa? what one? 1.2 or 1.8? link?
Krystekk 1.8
I just though it wise to point out that some insurers consider reversing cameras and reversing sensors (that aren’t fitted from new) to be a modification and no doubt they will quibble over any claims if you don’t declare it.
That camera would wind me up keep falling off the windscreen.
The camera should be positioned behind the number plate and stuck to the rear of reg number
Is this a joke
I am surprised you used scotch locks they will cause you trouble in the future
I would like to ask how I can remove the distance signals left and right .
Nice wireless backup camera, but it says they do not shipped to United States. 😟
Lights, 5% tint and a tiny crown Victoria window. I really need a backup cam
James, you should use a pair of pliers to push the blade down, not the locking tab. What is the picture like at night?
actually not bad, little grainy but useable
Are there any lag latency? To real time movement and display
white spirit is good for removing the residue left by tape or other glues.
Does it work at night? Any lights with the cam to see in the dark?
Mine of Amazon came on straight away when I go in verse
What is the link to buy the red connectors to do the wiring ?
would be good if you could do more wiring videos... Good video by the way
What do you do for a living, is youtube your full time job?
I was excited about this video as it said wireless but there’s wires. This is tooo much work 😩
8:21 They are known as Scotch Lock / Snap Lock / Splice Connectors.....
wireless reverse camera first thing i see is wires.
Wouldn't buy it myself but not going to lie it must be so cool getting sent free stuff lol
would've liked a wider lens
my car is too expensive to mahe a hole on it.