Installing a dashcam

[digital]

There is (apparently) a Nextbase kit that piggy backs onto a fuse.

https://www.volkswagenpartsuk.co.uk/par ... dwire-kit/

No knowledge or experience of the product, just recall finding it when previous similar discussion arose.

Ours are installed using that kit.

[digital]

Bump on this thread.
Just looking to install the dash cam from my old car - and it uses a cigarette lighter attachment through to a USB-b plug (might be mini-B - not completely up on my USB configurations!). Options are to
A. hardwire somehow (rather not - and I don't want it on all the time, just when I'm driving) -
B. thread a wire from the USB-C adaptors in the centre console under the seat, up the A or B pillar usually under the door seal or edge of the door seal and tuck under roof lining to near windscreen. This would mean getting a USB-C to micro-B lead (£15 for a 4m one - not impossible).
C. Use the existing lead and plug into the cigarette ighter socket in the boot, run up the inside of the trim on the C pillar (the back one?) and along the trim at the base of the roof lining all the way to the front....
Interested in trying C - any advice against? Obviously don't want to mess about with any airbag locations/important bits of trim etc...

A gentle warning: whichever way you choose to install it, do make sure you take the wiring behind the airbag in the A pillar.

[MotMot]

Had a good look today - and the fit between trim panels and the roof lining is really tight (as in good build) but unfortunately means I can’t easily squeeze a wire in where I have on previous cars.

Any airbag issues running it under the door seal on the A or B pillar until the end of the trim and roof lining?

[digital]

Had a good look today - and the fit between trim panels and the roof lining is really tight (as in good build) but unfortunately means I can’t easily squeeze a wire in where I have on previous cars.

Any airbag issues running it under the door seal on the A or B pillar until the end of the trim and roof lining?

I'm not totally sure on where the airbag stops (our dealer installed the cameras on both our ID3s FOC) but there have been instances of installations that have crossed the airbag with all the consequences that that would involve should it need to deploy.

There is a video doing the rounds that might help you.

[bumpyconstant]

I wonder if there is some way to tap power from the front roof wiring loom for a dashcam ? :

https://evflux.pro/id3-interior/#roof-front-section