Dash cam wiring

[Clownfist]

Where abouts are you guys wiring in your dash cams ? I have an amazon cheapy which I have mounted to the screen ok but I obviously want to hide the wire and feed it directly in to a fuse box. I’m not bothered about it being live all the time - I’d rather it switched off with the car .
Many thanks

[jmagee]

Wired into the fuse box. Used one of the add a fuse kits to the cigarette lighter fuse.

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[Clownfist]

Do you have any pics buddy ? Left or right of dash ?

[MFGF]

Do these posts help?

12v and Switched 12v Supplies in Fuse Box
A pillar trim removal
Question Dash Cam Fitting - Page 3

Cheers!

MF.

[Clownfist]

Massively - many thanks . I didn’t mean to be a lazy poster but there’s such a wealth of great information on here it’s hard getting through it all . Cheers buddy

[jmagee]

Do you have any pics buddy ? Left or right of dash ?

Left side behind the glove box

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[darich]

I'd suggest something like this

New 12V 10A Car Cigar Cigarette Lighter Female In-Line Socket Plug Connector | eBay

And hard wire this socket to a switched supply.
It saves you cutting any supplied cables with your dashcam....you simply wire in the socket and plug in as normal. But put a 3A or 5A (maximum) in line fuse on the positive terminal.

[Clownfist]

Thanks buddy , I will probably tap in to a spare fuse . I only have one cig lighter socket and it seems the neater option .

[artheb]

I am going through the same thing. I have managed to open a side panel a little bit and push the wire behind the airbag. I now need find out which fuse to use on the passenger side fuse box.

[artheb]

I tried infotainment display and heads up display as a source but they seem to be constant power fuses. Anyone knows which fuse is a switched Power fuse on the passenger side fuse box?


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