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Wiring dash cam

MotownBob

Well-known member
I saw some info on line somewhere on wiring a dash cam at the rear view mirror. Has anyone had luck in doing it this way to avoid a long cable run to a fuse block ?
 

bobbymcgraw

Well-known member
Most of what I’ve seen is how to wire a radar detector to the review mirror - not a dash cam.

It may be because radar detectors typically run off 12 volts and dash cams do not.

Hopefully I’m wrong - I’d love to have an easy way to hookup my dash cam.
 

saleen032

Well-known member
Most of what I’ve seen is how to wire a radar detector to the review mirror - not a dash cam.

It may be because radar detectors typically run off 12 volts and dash cams do not.

Hopefully I’m wrong - I’d love to have an easy way to hookup my dash cam.
Any device that is meant to be powered by the car electrical system is designed to be hooked up to 12VDC. The dash cam may run off lower voltage, but then it would include some type of voltage adapter.
 

GCOverland

Well-known member
My BlackVue dash cam is directly wired to the power supply behind the mirror housing.

The difficult part was not the installation itself (no adapter needed), it was finding a shop that was actually willing to perform the job.
 
I will be needing to install a dash cam and a radar detector in mine pretty soon. I had Best Buy do the install on my old '14 Overland, and they did a great job. I'm a little more nervous about this car because it's infinitely more complex. I'd love to see photos of what you guys have come up with.
 

bobbymcgraw

Well-known member
My BlackVue dash cam is directly wired to the power supply behind the mirror housing.

The difficult part was not the installation itself (no adapter needed), it was finding a shop that was actually willing to perform the job.
Mind showing a picture of your setup?
 

beardo

Active member
It’s a bummer we can’t use the built in cameras and record to an SD card.
Honestly, I think it's a good thing. My other car is a Tesla which has that feature but note that the cameras are designed for driving and not for high definition pictures / videos. So more often than none, you could be in a scenario where you have a hit and run and find out that the car's license plate was in a blind spot. This happened to me before in a vandalism where I have the full video of my surrounding cameras but unluckily the guy's face was in a blind spot. Now this wouldn't have been in issue with a proper dash cam because by default they have a pretty wide field of view therefore very small amount of blind spots.
 
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