Stealth OEM+ Dashcam

[rooneyy]

Hey Guys, so I installed this dashcam from Ebay last night. It took me about an hour to install. It comes complete with everything you need to get it up and running. It fits nicely but I did remove the rain sensor all together. The pictures don't show the camera flush to the top housing due to my phone cord coming out for my escort radar. If I didn't have that it would be perfectly flush. Link here incase anyone is interested. Be aware it does take awhile to arrive from China. They make these for the B8 and B8.5. I ordered it on Oct 3rd and received it Oct 20th.

I ran the power up threw the stalk of the rear view mirror, under the sunglass holder, along the top and down the passenger A-Pillar. I removed the A-Pillar by taking off the T-27 torx bolt under the "Airbag" logo on the pillar. Pulled the A-pillar out, which was very difficult down by the speaker, but some tugging and wiggling and it came out.

I threaded the cabling down by the passenger fusebox and shoved all the extra cabling in there. I attached the ground to the exposed bolt, put the constant(yellow) 12v power in the middle (tan) section and the ACC (red) to the left section. I was told that middle section has constant power it did look like the camera had power with the car off, although I can't confirm this 100% yet.

Connecting the camera to my phone was pretty straight forward. I will post more pictures and videos today of the quality.

These are pictures from the Ebay ad.








My apologies for the crappy night pictures but I hope you can kinda get the idea. I will take video tomorrow and post up the results. Please let me know if you have any questions at all.

The two ends; left mesh connector comes from the camera and the one on the right goes to power, ground, etc.



Wiring down the passenger A-Pillar:



Snaking the cabling down below to hide it:



Found an opening where I could pull all the excess cabling to hide:



Connecting the ground on the top right, constant power in the middle fuse section and 12v acc power on the left panel:



The finished product from the passenger side:



The finished product from the driver side:

[Mr.Wrong]

Wow the fit and finish is quite neat.

[naudical]

Where did you get that radar mount?

[Sweep]

Interested in seeing sample footage install looks good

[phroenips]

Where did you get that radar mount?

Looks like a Blendmount to me. Even if it's not, I have one which looks very similar, and I love it.

[rooneyy]

Looks like a Blendmount to me. Even if it's not, I have one which looks very similar, and I love it.

Correct it is a Blendmount. I had to adjust it a little to make up for the camera bulge.

I will post up video footage tonight.


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[jpenneck]

It fits nicely but I did remove the rain sensor all together.

Looks pretty neat with a stock look. Why did you remove the rain sensor ? Is the camera not designed to accommodate the sensor? Thanks.

[rooneyy]

Looks pretty neat with a stock look. Why did you remove the rain sensor ? Is the camera not designed to accommodate the sensor? Thanks.

The rain sensor didn't seem to fit and I didn't want to shove it in there and brake it I think you can make it fit by putting it in towards the bottom of the camera. I might go back and do that a little later.

Also note that there are som microSD cards that don't work with this camera it seems. I initially used a the Patriot brand 64GB card and it disables your wifi. After learning this I used SanDisk 64GB card and that seemed to do the trick.

Just a word of caution when buying microSD cards!


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[piginawig]

How is the video quality? Are you able to clearly make out license plates? Also, how is it at night?

[rooneyy]

How is the video quality? Are you able to clearly make out license plates? Also, how is it at night?

Sorry I'll try to get night shots tonight. I've been busy and don't drive the car everyday. I'll let you know, thanks.

[Garebear14]

Did anyone have problems connecting the cam to your phone? Followed the instructions on the eBay page pretty well, installed finalcam, connected the device with the password and the app tells me that it fails to add the device. Can anyone help?

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[0000_S5]

Sorry I'll try to get night shots tonight. I've been busy and don't drive the car everyday. I'll let you know, thanks.

Old thread... How satisfied are you with the set-up? Can you manually power off these devices?



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[rooneyy]

Old thread... How satisfied are you with the set-up? Can you manually power off these devices?



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Hey there. It works well although the software can be a bit finicky. The quality is great. It cannot be manually powered down but you could add a switch of some kind I suppose.

[0000_S5]

Hey there. It works well although the software can be a bit finicky. The quality is great. It cannot be manually powered down but you could add a switch of some kind I suppose.

Thanks, rooneyy


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[rooneyy]

Thanks, rooneyy


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You bet Mark, thanks!