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golfguy
18-01-2011, 04:30 PM
Just wondering if anyone has done this? I have a front facing camera 12V(as I do a lot of milage and have had a few near misses recently through the stupidity of other road users) and want to hard wire it into interior light panel/auto-dim mirror. Has anyone done anything like this before? Any tips on how to do it?
Thanks
ScottyUK
18-01-2011, 10:43 PM
Do a search on the US Audi forums as people are always wiring in their Valentine radar detectors

In fact I've just done it for you :

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/408124-Hardwiring-Valentine-1?highlight=valentine
golfguy
19-01-2011, 11:39 AM
Found a good one below in thread below
http://forums.audiworld.com/showthread.php?t=2720748
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Scotty.
ScottyUK
19-01-2011, 01:30 PM
Cool :beerchug:
I'm glad you posted that link as I didn't know about tapa-circuit. It might be useful one day.

Cheers.
Bratty
19-01-2011, 02:11 PM
If you do not have the "Garage-Door opener Homelink" option fitted, which is normally located in the roof just aft of the interior light, can you not use the hard-wiring from that? it has its own dedicated fuse (fuse carrier black #3).

Dunk
golfguy
20-01-2011, 05:15 PM
If you do not have the "Garage-Door opener Homelink" option fitted, which is normally located in the roof just aft of the interior light, can you not use the hard-wiring from that? it has its own dedicated fuse (fuse carrier black #3).

Dunk

That was what I was originally thinking but the tapa-circuit option makes things a lot easier. No messing about trying to find the hot wire and a much easier install.