I fitted my Blackvue 650 dual camera system today. It is still running off the cigar lighter as I await another fuse blade holder wire for the magic box - a job for next weekend.
It's pretty much a perfect fit, all the wiring from front to back camera tucked away nicely around headlining rubber trims etc, only one cock-up - I managed to break a clip holding one of the rubber flexible trunking pieces tight to the boot lid. I will have to get a new one (if it's not silly money) or silicone that end to the boot lid itself. For now, although water ingress is unlikely (would be a different story if it was the end going into the main body, as rain runs down there), I have put plenty of electrical tape around it:-
The rear camera is nigh-on invisible from the outside due to the glass tinting, see below for inside and outside views of the rear camera:-
Front camera (ignore the wire trailing down, that is going to the cigar lighter socket right now, but it will be going up into the roof lining with the front/back camera lead):-
Side view (front/back camera lead held by sticky clips that come with the camera):-
I could avoid seeing most of that lead if it was tucked behind most of the capping in the pic below and the end cap was notched to accomodate the thickness of the lead coming out to its socket. If you can buy that end cap separately then it should cost coppers - I can see the windscreen replacement companies needing these caps from time to time.
You wouldn't see the lead to the left of the blue arrow, the lead would pop out on the rim of the end cap where the red arrow is.
Hardest part was getting the end cap off after I stick the camera mounting so close to it leaving almost no wriggle room. About 1.5 hour's work so far, including setting up the wifi connection on my laptop to check where the cameras were pointing and look at the footage, I expect another hour max for the magic power box.
Right, i'm off down to Hartlepool for an afternoon and night on the lash for my cousin's 50th!
