I just wrote a super long detailed post - upon hitting preview the website logged me out and I lost all of it!!! :x :x :x
I'm now going to write a much simpler version
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Car: Audi TT - Mk3 Quattro Roadster
Late 2015 (65 plate)
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I personally hate dashcams that stick to my windscreen. They look ugly and ruin the sleek interior. Hence why I've avoided the blackvue cams etc. I also don't need half the fancy features they all come with. I just want something that records a loop of my driving in case I ever need to refer back to it.
So after many years of searching high and low - I found this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/IRO-Dashcam-Audi-A1-A3-black/dp/B07QBNQCV8
Very expensive for what it is, I'm aware, but it's super sleek and works well.
I installed it this weekend.
Summarised install steps:
(Install was hard for me - but that's because it was my first time disassembling anything in my car. )
- Parked the car in the sun, pried off the mirror, attached the housing (very fiddly and tricky)
- Attached it on again (to attach the rear view mirror back on, you place it on at a 45 degree angle and twist it on)
- Took out the interior light housing, and loosened the trim above me
- Pushed the wire through where I'd loosened the trim, and used tweezers to grab the wire from where the light housing was
- Loosened the a-pillar and pushed the wire along there, and into the odb port
- Reclipped all the trim together - ran into a funny issue with the interior touch capacitive lights. Turns out that to 'reset them' you need to ensure the housing has made contact with the buttons. Then turn the car off, wait for the capacitor inside to drain. In the morning they were working just fine.
All in all - super happy with my new stealthy solution. The pics on amazon link are accurate - I may upload some of my pics later this week.
I'm now going to write a much simpler version
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Car: Audi TT - Mk3 Quattro Roadster
Late 2015 (65 plate)
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I personally hate dashcams that stick to my windscreen. They look ugly and ruin the sleek interior. Hence why I've avoided the blackvue cams etc. I also don't need half the fancy features they all come with. I just want something that records a loop of my driving in case I ever need to refer back to it.
So after many years of searching high and low - I found this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/IRO-Dashcam-Audi-A1-A3-black/dp/B07QBNQCV8
Very expensive for what it is, I'm aware, but it's super sleek and works well.
I installed it this weekend.
Summarised install steps:
(Install was hard for me - but that's because it was my first time disassembling anything in my car. )
- Parked the car in the sun, pried off the mirror, attached the housing (very fiddly and tricky)
- Attached it on again (to attach the rear view mirror back on, you place it on at a 45 degree angle and twist it on)
- Took out the interior light housing, and loosened the trim above me
- Pushed the wire through where I'd loosened the trim, and used tweezers to grab the wire from where the light housing was
- Loosened the a-pillar and pushed the wire along there, and into the odb port
- Reclipped all the trim together - ran into a funny issue with the interior touch capacitive lights. Turns out that to 'reset them' you need to ensure the housing has made contact with the buttons. Then turn the car off, wait for the capacitor inside to drain. In the morning they were working just fine.
All in all - super happy with my new stealthy solution. The pics on amazon link are accurate - I may upload some of my pics later this week.
