Hello,  I am after some advice, please.  I bought '20 plate Kamiq a couple of weeks ago.  Yesterday I had a Nextbase front and rear dashcam setup fitted on my drive by Halfords - Tyres on the drive.  I am a bit concerned about the routing of the cable to the rear camera.  The technician has pulled out one of the flexible rubber conduits that runs between the car body and the top of the read door, and routed the cam cable through the hole in the body work.  He has then  replaced the conduit fitting back in the hole.  The moulded fitting ("sealing lip / spigot" - I don't know the correct term for it) cannot fit properly back into the hole as the camera cable is in the way.  It rained during the night and when I opened the boot, there is a pool of water collected around the entry points of both rubber conduits.  The concern is that this presence of the cam cable will cause water to leak into the body.    Is this as bad as it looks?  If yes, then I guess I'll be complaining to Halfords / Tyresonthedrive.   Are there alternative routings for the cable or other methods of sealing the cable?  Thank you...

That's horrible! That looks like water ingress or a broken cable just waiting to happen....

 

I would have run the cable inside the rubber gator and had it appear from behind the boot lid trim.

 

Obviously this means the 'fitter' would need to remove the boot lid trim for access and taken more time which is probably why they didn't!

That's really bad and I'd suggest is bound to leak at some point.  Typical of Halfords half-arsed approach to fitting stuff though...   If they've got it that far they'd have been better off leaving it 'inside' the car and popping it out from behind the headlining and up to the rear screen rather than the half in half out approach they've taken that comes out of the gaitor and then needs to squash between the hatch seal and hatch to get to the camera.

 

I'd take it back to them and get them to do it properly (although beware of them breaking trim...

Thank you for the advice. It's particularly worrying as the rain water really collects at the position between the rubber conduits. Off to Halfords then...

yep totally right to go back and get this sorted - if they can't do it properly demand a refund as this is far from professional

Can't understand why people keep using cowboy halfords, they're bloody useless and incompetent. Wouldn't trust them to change my toilet roll. 

Use a proper car audio and visual specialist or chuck a proper mechanic/technician some beer money. It takes me under an hour, you pay half the price of halfords and most importantly, it's done correctly. 

 

Hello there. Halfords (Tyresonthedrive) will come and look at the issue of the cable routing tomorrow. However, I discovered another issue today: The signals from / to the rear cam interfere with DAB reception. I recall seeing something about the location of the DAB antenna being affected by Nextbase rear cam signals.  Can somebody advise on routing of the cam cable to the top, centre of the rear window that would avoid the antenna?  Many thanks....

Sorry. I forgot to mention that the rear cam cable is currently routed around the headlining above the near side doors and at the top of the hatchback door, to the rubber gator / conduit thing. Thanks again for you input.

18 hours ago, itsablueone said:

Sorry. I forgot to mention that the rear cam cable is currently routed around the headlining above the near side doors and at the top of the hatchback door, to the rubber gator / conduit thing. Thanks again for you input.

 

Thats exactly where the DAB aerial wire runs.

It is a known issue with dash cams and poor signal.

The main solutions are to run the dash cam wiring offside, and to fit ferrite cores on the dash cam power wire if hard wired to take power directly from the car at fuse box/12v As its the conversion from 12v to whatever the camera needs that causes the interference. If the camera is powered from a standard 12v outlet, the "cigar plug" end of the dash cam power wire does the voltage conversion and no signal issues generally occur