First of all -- I hope you'll excuse the HORRIFICALLY bad video and sketchy photos. It's almost comic. What can I say? I was busy all day and didn't get a chance to do this until about midnight and Serena will be back on the road early tomorrow with my wife so this was my only chance. (The song on the media screen is an inside joke-- she HATES it, so naturally I cued it up for her:biggrin
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I will revisit this -- in daylight and HD video-- at a later date on my blog (link in signature). In the meantime, as requested:
As seen from outside-- though it is less obvious than it seems here because of the flash.
As seen from driver's perspective (only mount is visible above mirror).
As seen from passenger's perspective (I have the screen disabled to reduce annoyance factor). The "decorations" on my garage door are "stand in" prototypes for window mullions... another project for me to do this Summer).
Gaffer tape looks horrible in this picture but I assure you it disappears in normal light. Tape is non-marring but very strong.
Wire hidden in black margin of windshield then follows panel edge on A-pillar around to door seal.
Wire is run behind the door seal (easily done) with just a little tape to keep it tight.
Near bottom of this picture you can see wire running in panel gap in door opening (with more gaffer tape on top) that parallels with glove box door's lower seam.
Okay -- this IS ugly (but temporary) as tape keeps wire from hanging down when glove box is used. When closed, this wire is completely hidden.
Wire that comes with camera is too short to make the whole run-- and even with my extension, I had to cut a corner at the bottom of the main display. Wire just sits under floor mat for now.
Wire reemerges underneath passenger seat where it plugs into my extension cord.
And the extension cord then plugs into the 12 volt.
As you can see the "clean" install falls apart when the wire crosses back across the lower edge of the dash. Luckily, mini-USB cords can be had in lots of lengths. I will be replacing the camera cord with a longer one (eBay/Amazon) that will allow me to keep it concealed in the door seal all the way around to just below the rear-most corner of the passenger's door. There it will run in the panel gap at the bottom of the door opening and immediately disappear under the seat just behind the passenger's hip-- completely hidden. It will then only be visible where it plugs into the 12 volt.
And now-- my COMICALLY and RIDICULOUSLY useless video... but at least you'll see my dashing good looks (still uploading as I post this):
