I would like to get a backup camera installed on my trusty 2008 Nissan Xterra SUV.

I put "wireless" with a question mark because I have neither the dexterity, talent, nor interest in trying successfully run a looooong wire and hide it from the backup cam to the monitor.

So, I covet recommendations for cameras that are cheap, reliable, and easy for someone else to install. (I would want to come on when the backup lights come on, which means, I understand, it also has to be wired into a backup light circuit -- or possibly spliced into the wire from the backup light that goes to my trailer hitch??)

Best Buy is an obvious choice, but there may be other options I am not thinking of.

TIA!

A car stereo shop just down the highway from me installed a wired camera and replacement entertainment head (i.e., radio) in my Subaru Forester for a couple of hundred dollars. The image displays on the radio's screen automatically when I shift into reverse. They did a very nice job and I considered it money well spent.

I have installed digital display rear view mirrors in two of our family cars. They clip onto your interior mirror and have a 1080p digital display 10"-11" wide and about the same size and shape as your factory mirror. The distinct advantage to this system is twofold. They come with a forward facing camera included and also record continuously as an option to a micro SD card for future reference. The wire is easy to hide or you can have it professionally installed by a car stereo shop. Both of ours are mounted inside, against the rear window of our SUVs. The area they view through is tiny and swept by our rear wipers so the view, even in the rain is amazing, especially at night. Consider this as an option since most of the ones for around $100 or less also include the reversing activation triggered by the power to the backup lights. I just use mine as a full time rear view mirror. A quick tap on the screen switches to the forward facing camera display.

This sounds great but I'm running into the issue that shops here won't install items they haven't sold. Which is why I was thinking of a wireless one which I could probably do myself.

Of course, I'm also playing with the idea of getting a whole new head unit (with Car Play) but Best Buy et al have very high prices (lots were on sale pre-Christmas, but not that I am finding now) and a backup camera (in which case I'd have to have a professional install).

Call a local body shop. I've not found too many of them which aren't willing to do anything for money, and usually cheaply. When my GF's Passat started having headlight fogging and burnt wires, I ordered some Euro headlights for it and paid a local body shop to install it. Out the door: $130 for both the new headlights (entire assemblies/bulbs/sockets) and body shop to install them. The car looked stunning with the Euro lamps too.