Anyone to hardwire a dashcam in west Dublin?

DopeTech

Hi, can anyone recommend someone that could help me hardwire my dashcam. I am 99% of the way there with the cable trailing all the way to the fusebox but am unsure what fuses I can use etc.

yer man!

It's not too difficult to do yourself if you feel confident enough. I wired mine into the cigarette lighter fuse using an adaptor. This allows the dash cam and the regular cigarette lighter fuse to share the same socket. Got a cheap plastic panel pliers and removed some of the panels on the pillar and went right down into the fuse box. This is fairly easy on a Volkswagen.

DopeTech

yer man! wrote: »

It's not too difficult to do yourself if you feel confident enough. I wired mine into the cigarette lighter fuse using an adaptor. This allows the dash cam and the regular cigarette lighter fuse to share the same socket. Got a cheap plastic panel pliers and removed some of the panels on the pillar and went right down into the fuse box. This is fairly easy on a Volkswagen.

Could I get a pic of your fuse box? I got as far as the fuse box but don't know what to tap into?

colm_mcm

What car is it?

OldMrBrennan83

Does the lid of your fuse box have a list of the fuses? Stick up a picture of that if you can. Have you a fuse tap to use?

DopeTech

colm_mcm wrote: »

What car is it?

Vw golf mk6

DopeTech

Patww79 wrote: »

Does the lid of your fuse box have a list of the fuses? Stick up a picture of that if you can. Have you a fuse tap to use?

I have a fuse tap. Can take a pic tomorrow.

OldMrBrennan83

This one? If so, the bottom right is the cigarette lighter (right hand one of the 40,20,20). Someone else might know if the lighter in a Mk6 golf switches with ignition.

You'd find out by plugging a phone charger into it and setting of it goes off with the keys anyway.

DopeTech

Patww79 wrote: »

This one? If so, the bottom right is the cigarette lighter (right hand one of the 40,20,20). Someone else might know if the lighter in a Mk6 golf switches with ignition.

You'd find out by plugging a phone charger into it and setting of it goes off with the keys anyway.

Think that looks like it just that's in a left hand drive. My tap is for the mini fuses.

yer man!

The fuse diagram is in the owner's manual, looks for the one next to the driver side pillar. The 12V socket will be the one your after. As another poster mentioned, I confirmed the fuse by plugging them out one by one in the general region of the 12v socket until the connect device turned off.

Will get a picture of this anyway to show the adapter.

Harcrid

If using a fuse tap make sure it’s installed the correct way around otherwise you’ll won’t get protection from the fuse in the circuit.

DopeTech

Never got around to sorting this. If anyone could recommend a cheap, reliable person to hook this into my fusebox. Please pm me.

Thanks,
Dosser

colm_mcm

If you’ve already ran the wiring, the likes of MDS in Palmerston could do this in 5 minutes.