Dashcam fitting

[Mr Pig]

Evening guys,

I'm about to nail a dashcam to the car and wondered where the best places are to pick up the 12V power and ground? Camera is a Nextbase 212 incidentally and the car is a 2014 SE tech.

The cigarette socket is way back between the seats so I'd rather not have to pull the centre console out to find the wire for it. Anything near the side of the dash I can piggyback off without upsetting the canbus?

Thank you for any advice :0)

 

[dw911]

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=399625

Knock yourself out Mr Pig

 

[Brady93]

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=415052

Knock some more

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[Dr.Dash]

...I'm about to nail a dashcam to the car...Thank you for any advice :0)

Use SA Velcro not nails.

The link in post #3 is great.
- It's very easy, trim tools reduce the likelihood of any damage when hiding the wiring behind the A-pillar.
-Use the correct rated fuse in the piggyback adapter for the camera, 3A (violet/purple) should be fine.

 

[Looie]

Or as an alternative - go to your local Halfrauds and buy their Nextabase fitting kit @ £20, and they fit it for you for another tenner........ you can then sit and have a cuppa/burger or whatever watching them do the hard work........... it's what I did on my Nextabase 512G and it saves all that grief....

 

[Mr Pig]

Thank you guys. That second thread is useful. I did search and found a couple of threads but not that one.

Nails make excelant ground points ;0)

Or as an alternative - go to your local Halfrauds and buy their Nextabase fitting kit @ £20, and they fit it for you for another tenner....

I wouldn't trust the guys in Halfords to put a nut in a monkey's mouth.

 

[AndrewJB]

I wired mine in eventually after running it from the 12v cig socket for about 6 months.

I bought a kit from Amazon, plugged the USB into camera, run it under the headlining, down the passenger side A Pillar, into dashboard and into fuse box. it had an adaptor at this end where the existing fuse could be plugged into adaptor.

Took about 20 mins in total, hardest bit was finding somewhere to stash all the extra cable I didn't need.

 

[Mr Pig]

When I saw that Halfords fit these things for a tenner, and knowing the average age of a Halfords employee is twelve, I had a look at the £20 fitting kit as I figured it had to be simple. Wow! So easy.

These new piggy-back fuse holders are genius. One of those ideas that seems so obvious you wonder why no one thought of it before. Should take minutes to fit.

The camera itself is not an ideal configuration for the Leon though. The size and angles of the camera and mount limit your positioning options. For example, putting the camera behind the mirror is impossible. So far it looks like having it to the left of the mirror, maybe overlapping slightly, is the best option. Not great but it'll have to do.

 

[AndrewJB]

Yeh thats where mine is.

 

[Mr Pig]

Yeh thats where mine is.

Legally, the camera cannot infringe more than 40mm into the area of windscreen swept my the wipers. With this camera on the Leon, that's impossible. Which is a worry. I'm considering returning the camera and buying a different one.

Do you find the position of your camera annoying at all?

 

[AndrewJB]

Nope not at all mines pretty tucked up behind the mirror

 

[bleedsoff]

I like the look of the BlackVue ones. They seem very discreet. Any views?

 

[Mr Pig]

Nope not at all mines pretty tucked up behind the mirror

It's not possible to fit this one behind the mirror. Looking at dashcams, most of them use similar mounts which are way bigger than the need to be. I'll have a play tomorrow to see how best I can fit it.

 

[Looie]

Legally, the camera cannot infringe more than 40mm into the area of windscreen swept my the wipers. With this camera on the Leon, that's impossible. Which is a worry. I'm considering returning the camera and buying a different one.

Do you find the position of your camera annoying at all?

I have mine to the right of the mirror, half on the "dots" and half to the right of them - the Nextbase suction mount seems to be OK on the "dotty" bits, whereas when I had a Mobius, it wouldn't stick on them... I don't have any problem with the Nextabase being located there.. it's pretty much at the highest point it can be on the screen... I don't leave it on view when I finish my journey otherwise the 'smash and grab' urchins would have a field day, so actually where it gets located is irrelevant as long as it isn't in your way...

 

[Mr Pig]

The dotty sun-strip on the Leon seems to be laminated inside the glass. Never seen that before but it's not like old ones which were on the inside.

I won't be taking this one down every day. Sod that, life is too short. Maybe remove it if the car is parked in a dodgy place but other than that it can live on the window.

 

[Looie]

If your drive takes you to 'safe' places where leaving it stuck on the screen isn't a problem, then great... not like that where I live - so off it comes each time... Only takes a couple of seconds to refit it anyway...

 

[AndrewJB]

I have a black sunstip anyway so mine pretty much sits behind that.

 

[CRNeo]

May or may not help but this is how I did mine in my mk2 with nextbase hard wire kit.

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=432033

Been working spot on.

 

[trebor]

I like the look of the BlackVue ones. They seem very discreet. Any views?

I had a few issues with some cheap ones so bought a blackvue in the end.
Yes it is larger than the cheap units I tried but it does fit to the left of the mirror and is pretty much hidden from the driving position.
I have it as high up as I could get it too.

Has worked flawlessly, only negative is having to unplug the cable to remove it, whereas the cheap units I had used were wired into the mount thus making removal easier.

 

[Mr Pig]

That's it fitted. Very easy, except tying the in-line transformer to the end of the dash in the spot where the stand-off for the dash end-cap lands. Duh! Other than that. And I really like these plug-in piggy-back fuse extensions. Great idea.

Next time I'll be looking for a more discrete camera. The size of the mount and form-factor of the camera gives you very limited positioning options. I really don't think they've thought it through very well. For example they've put an eye-catching shiny bezel around the lens, looks cool in the shop but in use all it will do is attract attention.

Thanks for all the help guys.