My Neck Won't Twist Like It Used To. Here Are The 7 Reasons I Put A $119 Screen In My 14-Year-Old Camry — And Why I'll Never Reverse The Old Way Again

By Jenny Lawson, 68 — Brisbane, QLD
Last updated July 9, 2026 · 6 min read

My physio said something last year that stuck with me: "Jenny, driving won't hurt you. The way you twist to reverse might."

I have arthritis in my neck and left shoulder. Most days it's fine. But turning my head all the way around to reverse out of a parking spot? That's a wince, every single time. And you can't just not look.

So I started arranging my life around it. I'd park a hundred metres away at the shops, just so I could drive straight out. I stopped going to the Westfield carpark on weekends altogether. My son noticed before I admitted it: "Mum, you drove the long way to avoid a reverse park, didn't you?"

I looked at the "proper" fixes. A new car with a reversing camera: $40,000 or more. A car audio shop quoted me around $1,100 to fit a new stereo screen and camera into the Camry — plus a day without the car. Clip-on mirrors from the auto shop: $30, and they showed me a slightly different view of nothing.

Then my son sent me a link and said, "Mum, it's $120. It plugs into the cigarette lighter. If you hate it, they give your money back."

I've now had the BetterGardens 7" Touch Screen in the Camry for five months. Here are the 7 reasons it worked for me — including the two nobody mentions.

1. I can see everything behind me — without twisting my neck.

This is the reason that matters. When I put the Camry in reverse, the screen switches to a big, bright picture of everything behind the car — with coloured guide lines showing exactly where I'm headed.

My chin stays level. My shoulders stay square. The wince is gone. I still check my mirrors like I was taught fifty years ago — but I'm no longer wrenching my neck around like an owl to do the one job my body hates most.

2. It plugged into the cigarette lighter. That's the whole installation.

I was braced for wiring diagrams and a weekend of swearing. Here's what actually happened: the suction mount went on the dash, the plug went into the cigarette lighter, and it turned on. Under ten minutes, including the cup of tea.

No mechanic. No tools. No cutting into the dashboard of a car that's never given me a day of trouble. It works in any car — if your car has a power socket, you're in business.

3. The reversing camera came free — and it's the best part.

Here's the part I got wrong. I thought I was buying a fancy screen for maps and music, and the camera was a throw-in. It's the other way round. The camera is the thing that gave me my confidence back — and it's included free, worth $80.00.

New cars all come with reversing cameras as standard now. There's a reason for that: they work. The difference is a new car costs $40,000 — and this cost me $119.99, on a car I already own and trust.

4. Shopping centre carparks don't scare me anymore.

You know the spot. Concrete pillar on one side, someone's brand-new ute on the other, and a queue of cars waiting for you to get on with it.

That used to be my heart-in-mouth moment. Now I watch the screen, follow the lines, and slot in — first go, most days. No more paying for the awkward faraway park. No more "I'll just come back Tuesday when it's quiet."

5. My maps, calls and music are on a big screen — not in my lap.

Confession: for years my "navigation system" was my phone, balanced on my knee, with me glancing down at it at red lights. Every one of us knows we shouldn't. Most of us do it anyway.

This screen connects to my phone — iPhone or Android, wireless — and puts the maps up big enough to read at a glance, right in my line of sight. Calls come through the screen, hands-free. I ask Siri to ring my daughter and keep both hands on the wheel.

The screen didn't just make reversing safer. It cleaned up every bad habit I'd built around that phone.

6. It cost $119.99. The audio shop wanted $1,100.

Let's do the maths my son did for me. New car: $40,000+. Fitted screen and camera at the car audio shop: around $1,100, plus a day without the car. This kit: $119.99, delivered free, fitted by me before my tea went cold.

Same big screen. Same reversing camera. Same hands-free calls. The only thing missing is the four extra zeros — and the part where a stranger cuts holes in a perfectly good dashboard.

7. If I'd hated it, I'd have got every cent back.

This matters more than people admit. Half my bridge club has a story about a gadget from a Facebook ad that took six weeks to arrive from overseas and broke in a fortnight — with nobody answering the emails.

Better Gardens is an Australian company that ships express from Brisbane. Mine arrived in three days. There's a 30-day money-back guarantee — use it in your own car, decide, and if you don't love it they refund you. And if anything goes wrong in the first 90 days, they replace it free. There's a real support team on the other end of the email. I checked before I bought. You should too.

Reversing stopped being the thing I arranged my week around — and went back to being the boring part of driving. Which is exactly what it should be.

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