My car talks to me?

[dnbaa33]

Hi all, I've just purchased another Seat Leon Xcellence, 2019, and something I've not had in a car before, is that it verbally talks (notifications I guess). I tried looking up what this feature is, but can't find anything on it. Anyone know what it's called?

For example, it will say "Parking mode on / off" or "collision detected while in park mode" which was a bit of a worry, but we checked and no damage to the car...

 

[James_R]

That's a dash cam.

 

[dnbaa33]

Haha, that's funny, can't believe I didn't notice that thing hiding behind the mirror. It is indeed a BlackVue Dash cam. Now got to figure out if I can factory reset it or something.

Thanks for that!

 

[Seriously?]

Haha, that's funny, can't believe I didn't notice that thing hiding behind the mirror. It is indeed a BlackVue Dash cam. Now got to figure out if I can factory reset it or something.

Thanks for that!

If you download the app from the Blackvue website, you can fiddle with the settings from there.
They are excellent cams BTW. The previous owner must have been feeling generous leaving it in the car.

 

[dnbaa33]

Yeah managed to factory reset it and get it setup again. Seems to be working ok. Just discovered an Apple Air Tag nearby (popped up on my phone that one was detected) and managed to trace it back to the car. It's been buried behind the CD unit in the glovebox, so now need to acquire a pair of removal keys to pop the unit it and find the tracker! Someone obviously liked their gadgets!

The car was purchased from a car sales, and they said they got it from main dealer, but the dashcam is hard wired in, so I guess they couldn't be bothered to pull it all out.