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Title: Never install accessories on the windscreen? Dashcam!?
Post by: Neoteli on September 10, 2022, 01:33:56

So having just received my new car and after getting the dashcams plumbed in I sit down and read to my horror in the manuals "NEVER install accessories on the windscreen" ...can cause false alarms with collision warnings / magic / wizardry blah blah blah.

This may be a standard warning, but does anybody have any experience with it actually causing issues? My front cam is installed just below where the 'sensors' are on the windscreen?

Cheers.

Title: Re: Never install accessories on the windscreen? Dashcam!?
Post by: Lorian on September 12, 2022, 16:54:16

I believe this is so you dont block the vision of the collision avoidance/lane detection camera. Take a good look a the black prism shaped box its sat in though (by the rear view missor) and a revelation should come to you.

Title: Re: Never install accessories on the windscreen? Dashcam!?
Post by: Neoteli on September 13, 2022, 08:43:01

Quote from: Lorian on September 12, 2022, 16:54:16

I believe this is so you dont block the vision of the collision avoidance/lane detection camera. Take a good look a the black prism shaped box its sat in though (by the rear view missor) and a revelation should come to you.

I see and saw that camera in there, hence the question, but a dashcam positioned below it would seemingly never be able to block the field of view of that camera , which has me thinking that perhaps reflections or something similar?

Or is there something more obvious I'm over looking?

Title: Re: Never install accessories on the windscreen? Dashcam!?
Post by: The Gonz on September 13, 2022, 11:27:25

Nah, don't chase ghosts. Just don't block that camera or your own view of the road.

Title: Re: Never install accessories on the windscreen? Dashcam!?
Post by: Neoteli on September 14, 2022, 08:36:50

Quote from: The Gonz on September 13, 2022, 11:27:25

Nah, don't chase ghosts. Just don't block that camera or your own view of the road.

Super. I was hoping it was as simple as that, and looks to be the case. Everything has been working fine over the last couple of hundred km.

Title: Re: Never install accessories on the windscreen? Dashcam!?
Post by: Lorian on September 14, 2022, 16:36:36

Quote from: Neoteli on September 13, 2022, 08:43:01

I see and saw that camera in there, hence the question, but a dashcam positioned below it would seemingly never be able to block the field of view of that camera , which has me thinking that perhaps reflections or something similar?

thats the revelation.

Title: Re: Never install accessories on the windscreen? Dashcam!?
Post by: Neoteli on September 15, 2022, 07:25:29

Quote from: Lorian on September 14, 2022, 16:36:36

Quote from: Neoteli on September 13, 2022, 08:43:01

I see and saw that camera in there, hence the question, but a dashcam positioned below it would seemingly never be able to block the field of view of that camera , which has me thinking that perhaps reflections or something similar?

thats the revelation.

Indeed.