Cable routing into the glove compartment

[McFuzz]

So I am thinking of getting the Street Guardian SGZC12RC dashcam. It's a remote lens camera where the lens is wired to a little box that acts as the screen/control mechanism using a what seems like a USB cable.

The controller box will then be hard wires to the car. I would like to have the controller box completely hidden - and one option is to 'glue' it to the underside of the dash or maybe hide it in the glove compartment. At first glance, the compartment seems to be 'sealed' - no easy way to snake any wires in... but perhaps someone knows a trick or two? I'd like to avoid drilling or punching holes in anything...

[McFuzz]

Anyone?

[The Infiltrator]

Anyone?

Just remove the glove box and put it behind it.
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...ve-box-removal

[McFuzz]

I don't want to put the stuff BEHIND it - I want to put it inside the glove compartment but have no idea how to route the two cables it'd need without drilling anything...

[Mr.Audi]

Drill holes in the glove box wall and run them through?
Or am I in visioning this wrong?

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[99r6]

I'm a little curious on how you'd be wiring your dash cam. I currently have an all in one that is mounted to the right of the rearview mirror and plugs in to the cigarette lighter.

[treginginco]

There is an opening behind the AMI box.... that's how I routed my cable to the center console.

[JeriQo]

So I am thinking of getting the Street Guardian SGZC12RC dashcam. It's a remote lens camera where the lens is wired to a little box that acts as the screen/control mechanism using a what seems like a USB cable.

The controller box will then be hard wires to the car. I would like to have the controller box completely hidden - and one option is to 'glue' it to the underside of the dash or maybe hide it in the glove compartment. At first glance, the compartment seems to be 'sealed' - no easy way to snake any wires in... but perhaps someone knows a trick or two? I'd like to avoid drilling or punching holes in anything...

take the AMI port out of the glovebox then you got a nice opening there to snake wires on the side dash.

[JeriQo]

here you go. i did this last sat.

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...oval-required*

[McFuzz]

here you go. i did this last sat.

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...oval-required*

Ahh I see - but you sacrifice the AMI port (not that I'd be using it but I like to keep things clean)... which I can then pop back in once done, I suppose. OK - food for thought!

I'm a little curious on how you'd be wiring your dash cam. I currently have an all in one that is mounted to the right of the rearview mirror and plugs in to the cigarette lighter.

Same way as I wired my radar detector except instead of going to the driver side, I'll be running the camera on the passenger side. All that is needed is add-a-fuse, either a constant 12v or switched 12v open fuse port (or you can tap into an existing one), hard wire the 12v line from the camera to the add-a-fuse 12v hot (butt crimp or solder) and then find a suitable ground spot for the ground line from the camera (usually you can use one of the nuts that is visible in the fuse box - remove it, wrap the exposed ground strands around the stud and then put the nut back on and tighten or if you have a terminal - even better!

Now - some cameras use 5v instead of 12v in which case you'd still need to use a female-to-male cigarette lighter adapter as the conversion from 12 to 5 is done using the cameras' proprietary adapter... but you can still hard wire it and there's enough room to hide all the wires in the fuse compartments.

When I wire up my cam, I'll take some pix... If I remember to!

[JeriQo]

Ahh I see - but you sacrifice the AMI port (not that I'd be using it but I like to keep things clean)... which I can then pop back in once done, I suppose. OK - food for thought!

exactly. or you can make that tab wider. depends on how much wiring you need to get in there. or even use a felt (the ones you stick under furniture legs so you can slide them around) make that opening look even cleaner.