I replaced the backup camera in my 2016 Kia Soul EV

Midwinter this year the backup camera in my 2016 Kia Soul EV started to flake out. At first it was just Max Headrooming, but then, after a week of that, it gave up the ghost completely.I consulted with Dave, my mechanic, and he suspected that it was the camera itself, rather than anything deeper, and suggested I grab a cheap replacement from Amazon rather than paying $400 (part only) to the dealership.So that’s what I did.The part arrived Friday, and I installed it today.Installing the camera itself was easy: just unplug the old one from the wiring connector, remove it, and drop in the new one. It took 5 minutes.Getting to the point where I could actually do that took a few hours: I had to remove a complex series of things to get access to the camera. First came the interior plastic panel on the inside of the hatchback (screws, then prying off the panel with a spatula to dislodge interior clips), and then a strip of exterior body panel that the camera sits into (more screws, then…