Hey, just looking for a general consensus, ideally from techy people or those that have done dashcam/wiring on their car.

With the old camera I routed around the car without really hiding wires, and it's been mildly bugging me for 10 years. Now I'm investing in a new camera I'd like to do a more professional job with routing and hiding cables under trim, but I've not really ripped bits of the car off before.

I'm getting mixed advice on whether or not it's necessary to disconnect the battery for 10-15min before pulling trim (A-C pillar and headlining) to route dashcam cables in order to safely work around the airbags? If I can (safely) do it, carefully, without having to reset one-touch etc. after the battery's been out for a while then I'd rather that. But conversely, if it's a real risk, I obviously don't want to set off all the roof bags when running the cable above them to the rear camera.

Anyone done this or have an opinion on what's best before I default to 'better safe than sorry'?

I'd not risk upsetting a 12 year old airbag system and it's connections and wiring, unlkess you have a scanner that can reset the airbag perhaps but then personally even then not, bad enough dealing with 12 year old plastic trim why esculate issues.

Read the car's 'Owner's Manual' for what might need resetting, often it's only the time of day clock if you make sure all electric windows and sunroof are fully shut before disconnection, plus good practice to have all electric items switched off (even before you switch the engine off, or on, excluding any saftey items and off course all the stuff the computers do anyway). I've no idea about seat memories and fancy stuff like that though.

I would favour disconnection of the battery for even longer to reset (a turnin' orft 'n' on agen thing) some of the computers anyway to help cut down a little perhaps on their brain-farts so leave the battery disconnected even longer, or for a 2014 car bridge the live and earth battery terminal clamps and turn the headlamps to on (they won't be of course) keep the battery treminals out of it and/or well covered/insulated.