Pinkythelabrat
A2OC Donor
In an effort to avoid any 'he said she said' in this litigious world I decided I wanted a dash cam. They are hideous though.
The ones to replace the rear view mirror are okay but expensive or ugly.
Anyway, I found this:
It was about £30 (£3postage) on Fleabay. Uses your mobile to review and set up and to save footage from the memory card if you need to capture an incident long term and has all the usual settings available.
It fits around the window mounting point of the rear view mirror like the sensor cameras on some cars (sorry to those with auto-dimming mirrors - I don't think this'll work for you) and you can barely see it from the drivers seat so there's no loss of visibility. My plan is to hook it up to a switched 12v in the headlining from the interior light perhaps but the included power cable was long enough to feed across the top of the windscreen, down the A pillar, under the steering wheel and past the handbrake to my 12v socket. Easy.
It also has a rear view camera to fix next to your number plate. This is trickier as it connects to the main camera to merge the inputs and power it so I need to run wires. I was thinking it could maybe go up through the numberplate light fixing since they are removable and quite cheap anyway so I don't mind drilling a hole and presumably there's a cable space behind it. I'll let you know once I've had a look.
Anyway - maybe an option to try and reduce insurance premiums and sort out liability for no fault claims and it avoids a sight blocking R2D2 stuck to your dashboard.
Alex
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The ones to replace the rear view mirror are okay but expensive or ugly.
Anyway, I found this:
It was about £30 (£3postage) on Fleabay. Uses your mobile to review and set up and to save footage from the memory card if you need to capture an incident long term and has all the usual settings available.
It fits around the window mounting point of the rear view mirror like the sensor cameras on some cars (sorry to those with auto-dimming mirrors - I don't think this'll work for you) and you can barely see it from the drivers seat so there's no loss of visibility. My plan is to hook it up to a switched 12v in the headlining from the interior light perhaps but the included power cable was long enough to feed across the top of the windscreen, down the A pillar, under the steering wheel and past the handbrake to my 12v socket. Easy.
It also has a rear view camera to fix next to your number plate. This is trickier as it connects to the main camera to merge the inputs and power it so I need to run wires. I was thinking it could maybe go up through the numberplate light fixing since they are removable and quite cheap anyway so I don't mind drilling a hole and presumably there's a cable space behind it. I'll let you know once I've had a look.
Anyway - maybe an option to try and reduce insurance premiums and sort out liability for no fault claims and it avoids a sight blocking R2D2 stuck to your dashboard.
Alex
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