Unknownsilver

Ali Express 🙄

I Installed a dash cam on a 2024 Skoda Superb the other day and the camera hardwire cable has a permanent live, switched and black earth. Standard for many 24hr parking monitor cams. Now the camera has a parking mode that is activated when the ignition is switched off and the camera goes into a low voltage mode. The issue is, the new Skoda for some reason cuts off power to the fusebox when the ignition is switched off, so the camera doesn't go into the parking mode. Interestingly though the fuses on left hand side stay live but yet the camera doesn't have power?! I tested many different fuses such as interior lights, windows, stereo etc but the camera still turns off. It will say entering parking mode (which it does) but the car physically shuts off power to it. Never known anything like it and I've fitted dash cams to many different Vag cars. For example, you need to use a specific earth point on vags and you need to use two fuses in the fuse tap otherwise, the camera will not come on. Regardless if it's a Nextbase, Thinkware etc. Anyone come across this before? You probably won't have noticed with a Nextbase system with only a red switched and black earth and the camera having a battery inside it. The issue is with dash cams that have the parking mode that has a red (switched), yellow (perm live) and back earth. (Some manufacturers have the red live and yellow switched) I'll say it again, the car literally shuts off power to the dash camera from the fusebox behind the glovebox, but the left hand side fuses still have 11.9v to them 🫣 Mental.