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Never install accessories on the windscreen? Dashcam!?

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Offline Neoteli

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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?

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Offline Lorian

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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.


Offline Neoteli

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

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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.
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Offline Lorian

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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.


Offline Neoteli

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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.
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