all right today I'm gonna be installing one of these two dash cams on my is it's the anchor rope
I've got I think this is the a1 and this is the c2 about both of these on slick deals through Amazon
or Amazon through slick deals when I saw them they were about 42 or $45 each one I think this one was
more expensive than the a1 from you know there's an impulse buy after I ended up you know looking
at the specs this a one's actually a little better it's got Wi-Fi so you could download your videos
onto your phone without taking the SD card out and all that through your computer you know that one
doesn't have Wi-Fi this one actually has a bigger battery the c2 has a bigger battery and I think
has a little bit more other you know features as far as the sensor goes they both use the same Sony
sensor I think this one uses a different processor then this guy I saw the reviews on YouTube and
looks like image and you know the image capture and all that's about the same so there's really no
difference between the two as far as video they all out they both have the same angle viewing
angles and all that the one thing you notice this one slots lower smaller profile as far as the lens
goes it's wider it's got a bigger bigger screen on the back but the screen part doesn't matter
if you're using it anyways when he's driving behind the mirror so whatever this one's got a
smaller screen I think the battery on the battery and this guy's like half the size of this guy so
there's like four hundred and seventy and this is like 240 or something like that milliamp hours I'm
when I saw it on my mirror behind my mirror using the power off the mirror the 12-volt
power but in order to use it after putting this converter so I converts it to USB micro so it
plugs into the camera what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna put solder two pins to the end of
this and then shove it into the harness behind the mirror so I'll get some video of that right
inside the car so what I'm gonna do is you notice my mirrors got all this crap that's delaminating
all the reflective stuff I'm actually gonna take that down on this as part of this and send it into
a radar mirror and have them replace that glass I think it's a hundred bucks for that service
you pay shipping there they ship it back to you but it's pretty easy to take this off I think
there's a torque screw right here that holds the mirror in and then it's whatever sensor
this is for the front to get to the wire harness all you have to do is basically just slide this
guy down and pop this cover off right here and then yeah this comes harness is right here and
comes right out this I'm not sure with this this front sensor thing is but it's looks
like as attached to the mirror so it all comes off in one piece if you look at the wire tether
there's six there's five wires the pink one on the very end is is constant power the blue one
is the accessory power and then that this the two pink ones in the middle or whatever that
sensor is I'm assuming up here so you know and then the black one black or the white and black
one at the end is the ground that's your common ground for all the toyota cars so it's part of
my install I need to actually mount this guy behind here the headliner I think the easiest
way to get to is to remove this console that there's actually two two screws up here that I
got the little door clip so you just actually have to pop these things off when I unscrew that and
I should drop I'm gonna go ahead and just drop this mirror so I can send it in for our repair
take out the Torx bit right here
whole mirror assembly comes right off one shot with the harness and everything still
not sure what this sensor is but it's all part of the mirror assembly must be the
compass by the compass system the thought okay so you know the pins I soldered into
here I'm just gonna insert them right into the backside of this and make the connection
and so do that a test to make sure I have power wealth and capital to sell the newspaper in a
blistering editorial that made national headlines now the devil I have to have
tucked everything away why she use some 3m tape just tape the connection the wire so they don't
slip out of the holes just a little bit about a inch and a house worth would do
get it really tight
around about twice suck all the wires up into there should be good so I've got the
mirror back on I was gonna make the wiring connections here put the two clips earlier
I forgot to show you guys the round clip this is actually the wire clip that that tucks the
wire to the mirror stem they just just snaps right on holds it there put this guy back at
hook your harness in there and then just slide the neck up and it's perfect
you do that all the all the wires and everything
so now I've got the camera and the mount put on here and I should just go up into here and we're
right on and the glass press in and then there's a lock there's a little twist lock twist lock it
tight one thing you'll notice on the highest you've got these little bubbles up here or the
shade stuff you can't mount the suction cups of that because the there's such a fall right off if
you want to mount that you have to use the 3m tape option if it cut you know if you're a camera comes
with it so but once you get it on and you just turn it side to side there's a adjustment knob
to go forward and back you know backwards and just plug your power in should be good to go so
I've got it all mounted up there behind the mirror like I said earlier yeah you wanna mount it right
onto the glass if you've mounted into this shaded part it's most likely gonna drop off you want to
matter how you have to use if your camera comes with a 3m tape option you have to use that one to
hang there so for now I'm just gonna hang it here this mirror is kind of high so I can still see
that the camera I might move it up and use the 3m mount or one of these other mounts up here just so
that things out of the way but for now I'll leave it like this we'll turn it on and see it Buddha
right there that front view of the camera you could actually just turn it either you know
wherever you want to turn it straight forward mindset to actually turn off the screen so it
stopped after 30 seconds so we'll see if it okay so if I got the mirror back from
radar mirror got a glass replace as you can see no more black specks or delamination of
the mirror material overall it was probably a seven out of ten on quality some of the edges
didn't go all the way and you can see the one of the electrical connections right here in the
corner of the thing but overall I'm happy with it better than the delaminated one that I've had
for you know it started doing it probably like six seven years ago this is actually
a replacement mirror before I replaced it under warranty when the vibration warranty but anyway
the one thing I saw about it that I didn't like was that the dimming takes a little longer than
the OEM glass I think that's what I can tell that you know when there's a light behind you
I remounted the camera using some 3m tape I had some 3m tape that I put up behind the suction
cup that was round 3m tape from one of my cameras like my action cameras I mounted behind here but
it's a pretty tight fit I should have mounted it a little lower on the windshield but overall
it's fine you can't really see it when you're here except for the mountain and the wire there