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I'm also going to use this place for window tint. The guy they have is excellent and several exotic cars get tints from them.
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I removed the trim last week to fit a 422gw nextbase tucked up behind the rear view mirror. Invisible from inside the car and just the pad visible from outside. Note to nextbase make the pad black. It's so small that it cannot be seen. I have the screen off.
The 3 pieces of trim are tricky but not impossible. Piece 1 you are pressing on a hidden retainer and pushing up at the same time. The video shows you where to press. Tricky. Piece 2 you do need a thin trim removal tool and lever piece 2 apart from piece 3. Feels brutish but then it clicks and is loose. Piece 3 is easy. Put back together, much easier. I did not use the existing wiper wiring but ran the nextbase wiring to the rhs fuse box. Via the headlining, easy and then down the pillar after removing it and behind the existing wiring so I was hit by an airbag and not wires if it went off. Connection to the fusebox was easy and plenty of room to store the excess cable. Video quality is good. Enhanced by the polarising filter. There's an app and a web interface. Both are pretty good but not customisable. They have telemetry if that's your thing. You can download the saved videos to the app by a wifi network created by the app , remove the micro sd card or connect the camera to your pc. All worrying is provided . The hardwired kit is extra or can be bought bundled. Cigarette lighter wiring provided There is a clever magnetic base enabling the camera to be removed easily leaving all the wiring behind untouched. Please ask additional questions if you think I can help. No connection to nextbase, just an ordinary punter who has clocked up 3 score years and 10. If I can u can |
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- Where did you plug the battery pack into? I've got the same battery pack for my blackvue 950, my f30 had a 12v plug under passenger footwell so the battery was plugged into that, but the g30 doesnt and i don't know where to plug it in.. |
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So taking off the plastic trim pieces were actually easier then I thought it would be. I’ve done blendmount and wire taps for the past 5-6 cars so thought it would be as easy as all the earlier ones. First try utter failure, gave up after an hour, called my stereo guy. He quoted me $150.00. HELL NO!! Watched more videos on YouTube and re watched, tewound the YouTube video referenced above and asked the community here for help. Success on the second try and in 10 minutes. If I can do it. Any one can do it.
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Joe-BMW33 540iSUP Some pics of the installed rear camera
To remove the plug easily, hold the plug with 2 fingers front and back, just wiggle and pull. It will come off easily |
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Awesome. Thanks for this.
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The plug is the hardest part especially with big hands.
I can't tell from the photos but would the rest camera get blocked by the retractable sunshade in that location? I didn't get the rear cause I thought it would be like a sore thumb but it's not bad |
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Now I really wish I got the rear facing camera as well. |
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How long do you save it for? I delete all files that don't have Pax in them and transfer the rest to USB drives. I currently have 16+ TB's of saved files going back to Jan of 2019. Do I drop another $100 on another USB Drive or do I start deleting old files???? I never had to look back more than 1 month in my files, I have had to look back for files for 3 scammers now and provided the files to Uber for review. I've got pretty good at resetting my camera to start a new file just before pax get in and also resetting the camera just after the pax gets out. This considerably saves storage space by eliminating up to 4.5 minutes of unneeded video before the pax gets in and after they get out. Amazing how many files had nearly 5 minutes of dead time at the beginning of end of the ride. Last edited by LukeAnthon; 11-09-2022 at 09:30 AM.. |
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The dash is a bit bulky and there's a cut out that looks like it's meant for some sort of sensor. Is this actually functional?
I'm tempted to go with the AliExpress one bc it's compact. |
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I have bought and installed the 4K one form ali: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005...2f871802270ywK this is (for me) the same as FITCAMX and I even use fitcamx apk on my android phone cost ca $94 (no SD card) (rain sensor used to share the power) |
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Im looking at this, really like the look of the front one and looks like it might be an easy one to do.
Im considering the rear one as well but not sure about the wiring for it and how easy it would be to feed the wire from the front to the back.... do you have to remove the roof liner or is there an easy path to route the wire from front to back. Has anyone done the rear and got pictures of how they took the wire from front to back?
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Yeah have seen the YT video showing the front cam which looks pretty straight forward, just wondering about the path the rear camera cable takes.
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