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I mounted my Thinkware F750 behind the rear-view mirror and nearer to the driver so that the manual record button is accessible while driving.Hi All
Bought myself a Thinkware 770, fuse taps on the way and even got some trim removal tools. All I need now is the best way to route the wires out of sight for both front and rear cameras
Do any of you guys have any tips / photos for the installation? would really appreciate any guidance
Cheers
The sticky pad is stuck to the painted area so that the light grey pad doesn't show from outside and the camera looks out from under the painted area and that part of the windscreen is covered by the wipers.
The Thinkware F750 is not particularly hidden not no-one looking at the car as ever commented that there is a dashcam installed so it can't be very obvious.
Poke the cable(s) behind the trim around the windscreen. In some places I had some black foam that I used to jam into the gap to keep it all tight and minimise vibrations/rattles.
It is tight but do-able to push the cable down between the side of the dashboard and the pillar and I removed trim to route down to the fuse panel. I removed all the side trim next to the drivers foot to make access to the fuse panel easier and the slack cable is pushed behind the dashboard.
Routing the cable to the rear along the roofline is even easer and only took about 2 minutes. There is a lot of slack cable which is pushed behind the rim down the side of the rear window. I do guarantee that you will mount the rear camera upside down on the first attempt . I put a black sticker over the blue LED on the rear camera.
When there is an incident it can involve wading through 1000's of files so I also keep some spare microSD cards in the car so if anything happens
I can swap them over immediately which makes it much easier to find the incident later.
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