Hi

 

So I am pretty confident how to fit the front mounted dash cam following guides on this site. But struggling to find a way to run the cable from the front camera to the rear with it being completely hidden or breaking anything. 

 

Has anyone done it who can offer some advise.

Hi Nebb,

    I take it you have a Nextbase dashcam.   I have the 322GW.  Excellent cam.

I ran the rear wire along side the front cam cable which was along the top and down the side of the windscreen(drivers' side).   With the drivers' door open, push the cable under the rubber that separates the inside trim from the door seal.   Run the cable to the floor and push it under the floor trim below the doors.    Push cable all way under this trim to the rear seat.  I was then able to tread the cable through to the bootup where the parsel shelf rests.  I then pushed the cable under the rubber seal and came out close to where the rear camera is located.    Do the cable routing BEFORE you stick the read camera to the rear window.   There is just sufficeient length of cable to reach routing this way.    Also routing this way keeps the cable away from any airbags.

 

  If this is a bit complicated I will try and take some photos of my setup.

 

Have fun

 

Happy Xmas! 

 

I ended up getting the Viofo A129 Duo Plus after alot of reviews. 

 

That would be great if you could get photos. I looked at a very similar route. But hit a snag at the rear seats due to having the Veriflex ones in the SEL model. I couldn't find a way to not see the cable here... Unless I am missing something silly. 

I have the SE karoq that has the 40/60 split rear seats. 

After fixing the cable under the floor trim I exited the cabe near the rear backrest fixing.

 

 

  Then passed the parcel shelf towards the boot seal

 

 

 

then along the boot seal to exit at the top.  

 

The 6.5m length of cable reached this point.  Biased to the drivers' side of the car.

 

 

 

The front dash route to the drivers' door seal.   The other leads are the power for the satnav and the dash cam.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

8 hours ago, Rayc6779 said:

I have the SE karoq that has the 40/60 split rear seats. 

After fixing the cable under the floor trim I exited the cabe near the rear backrest fixing.

 

 

  Then passed the parcel shelf towards the boot seal

 

 

 

then along the boot seal to exit at the top.  

 

The 6.5m length of cable reached this point.  Biased to the drivers' side of the car.

 

 

 

The front dash route to the drivers' door seal.   The other leads are the power for the satnav and the dash cam.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

 

Wow. Is this how not to do it. Looks a right mess 

That's a realy helpful statement.  It helps Nebb greatly.  What way would you do it?

I'd like to offer some advice after doing this install yesterday, and also seeing guides and general chat about how to do this that could be DANGEROUS.....

 

Firstly, the safety part..

The A pillar of most modern cars contains an airbag curtain which drops vertically down at very high speed, protecting you or your passenger from striking their head on the glass or intruding object.

 

Most people seem to run the cable along the headliner at the windshield to the corner (fine). The problem IMHO is that majority of the advice I read is to then jam the cable between the plastic trim and roof liner, and cross underneath the airbag (!), then run down the rubber trim the length of the pillar. By crossing underneath the airbag, you are effectively blocking the deployment of the airbag properly in the middle of its width, OR during deployment the bag will rip out your cabling and possibly dashcam, sending this towards the seat occupant at great speed....

 

So, don't do this. Please.

 

The plastic trim on the A pillar seems to be near impossible to remove, but if you can, the above method should be okay so long as you can cable above and behind the airbag carefully.

 

What I did however, was run the cable down the windscreen, to the seam in the dashboard, then carefully pushed the cable using the blunt back of a teaspoon into this crack, completely concealing it, and then allowing access via the side panel to the fuse box.

 

GROUND:

When you open the dash side panel, there is a convenient bolt (with nut) that I used for ground - simply find another but with the same thread and add it on, trapping the ring securely.

 

REAR CAMERA:

For the rear camera, I opened the boot and gentle loosened the headliner clip in the centre. I then used a length of what we call 'yellow tongue' (flat firm 3m piece of plastic for pulling cables) and pushed from this end all the way along the to roofline until it popped out at the windscreen, then taped on the rear camera and pulled the plastic back out. This was actually very easy!

 

I fed the cable through the rubber elbows to prevent water leaks - but I did break both clips doing this, and I'm still not sure how to get these out without doing so, so please use caution.

 

FUSES: 

I used fuse taps for both the ACC and 12v wires - the 12v I got from the cigarette/12v fuse, and the ACC from the USB fuse (mini fuse).

 

 

Hope this helps!