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Will be interesting to see how this mount holds up to road vibration and UV sunlight. Assuming both parts need to be scaled to 2540% it would be a quick print on a hobby printer. (Before scaling one STL model is microscopic and the other almost the side of the print bed.) Never priced any commercial 3D printing but these shouldn't take more than an hour to print. Find a student with a printer and they'll probably do it for a six-pack. Note the original is in ABS plastic. More common PLA doesn't do well in the sun from my (limited) experience.
-- Chuck
ABS definitely isn't the most UV resistant but I'm personally not too worried about. Black abs doesn't really fade and mechanically, only the bezel is exposed and not the mount. Maybe on a super hot day it might warp a little but so far it's been installed for maybe two thousand miles. It's a surprisingly sturdy piece. Honestly I'm expecting the camera to break long before the mount does
ABS will not warp just from being in direct sunlight, it can handle much more heat. I'm sure this part can even be PLA with the little exposure it sees.
If anyone in Orlando wants one I'll print it out for you.
I only thought of tapping the reverse light as that's what I did on another car, but if you could specify which harness under the kick panel is for the reverse signal I could do that. I believe my mirror can also do rear recording, which honestly is just a nice to have imo, as it wouldn't really record well at night (due to all the headlights taking focus).
Whereabouts in NorCal are you? I'm in the Pleasanton area myself!
Have you installed that mirror and used it yet? I kinda like it, minus how it straps onto the OEM mirror.
Have you installed that mirror and used it yet? I kinda like it, minus how it straps onto the OEM mirror.
I've installed the mirror but I haven't installed the camera yet. The display is HUGE, but there is no auto-dimming. The other thing that kind of gripes me is that the dashcam (part of the mirror) only records in .avi, and can only hold a 32gb file. I think that's about 5 hours of recording before it loops onto itself. The other issue is that our stock mirrors are mounted pretty high on the windshield - when you strap this mirror on, because it's bigger, the top of the mirror almost touches the top of the windshield trim. The microSD card slot is also at the top of the mirror, so it looks like anytime you want to remove the SD card, you'll have to take the mirror out. For $60 it's pretty good, but you just gotta know what you're buying.
Ouch, sorry to hear that man. I used a 300W shrink-tubing heater. It was extremely slow to get the adhesive flowing but it worked fine. Do you think the cracking came from the heat, or did you just pull at it kinda hard?
