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[sii]

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Sii - how have you cabled yours up (I'm about to do mine, albeit in a roadster)? I'm thinking to run the wires inside the A pillar on the passenger side and then across inside the screentop trim, and make a small forward-facing exit hole near the mirror/light bit.

On the upper most part, above the windscreen it just tucks up as there's a 2-3mm gap so nice and tidy there. I ran it to the top drivers side corner, clicking the A pillar plastic off, then down inside of it, the open the drivers door. IT tucks and hides behind the rubber seal so doesn't get trapped and isn't visible.

Then I ran it under the edge of the dash, running it up and over the wiring inside there (cable tie'ing it where required) then ending up popping out under the cigarette lighter and then plugging in.

I will eventually hard wire it to the back of the lighter assembly so it's 100% invisble.

They're a brilliant bit of kit, even for reviewing laps of a track, nice drives through the alps (when I had the Monaro) or playing back moments when people do the stupidist things on the motorway.

[sii]

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a motorway ***** ?

peenish

Fact though, if you have a large, loud fast car = generally large motorway *****.

People would see my Monaro roll up or hear it burbling up, pull over and let me past even at 65mph as they could see it "meant business" even if it was being driven very sensibly. I use to get 32mpg with a superchared V8 so I didn't rag it.

However if to smaller/normal cars pass each other, one of the drivers MUST show that he has a larger motorway peeenish. In town is the best example, people pull up in the right lane and as the lights change I pull off, say half throttle. They see my Noddy car nip off and straight away they think "there is no way his motorway peenish is larger than mine, I must pass him, AT SPEED"

They come flying past, in excess of 30mph, then at the next set of lights I pull up along side and it all starts again.
I love it

Like the guy who used to think I drove a smart as I was poor and couldn't handle real power. I brought my drag mustung to work as I saw him on the way in each day. He went a little quiet when the 80's Foxbody mustang next to him being driven by me pulled away from the lights up to 20-30mph with the front two wheels 6-12" off the deck.

He never gave me "you can't handle the powa" comments again.

[sii]

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No need to make an exit hole, just run it down the screen for 1" as the camera sits so close to the top of the screen it's hidden, also the camera mount (not the sucker as that's cack), the one with a 3M pad on it has a cable tidy clip to make it look all 'smart'.

[10:45PM]

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Like the guy who used to think I drove a smart as I was poor and couldn't handle real power. I brought my drag mustung to work as I saw him on the way in each day. He went a little quiet when the 80's Foxbody mustang next to him being driven by me pulled away from the lights up to 20-30mph with the front two wheels 6-12" off the deck.

He never gave me "you can't handle the powa" comments again.

[sii]

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Being an ex skinhead Geordie who supposedly had a less than perfect grasp of the Queens English, now conversing in nigh on perfect gramatical syntax whilst at work, people forget where I was raised. Making quips about the 'Norf' and how we're all retards and love whippet racing and flat caps.

Most mocked my choice of car, saying that due to driving a little N reg hatch back I must be a poor skinhead scrote and therefore must fall into a certain driving style. Yet, when I give them a lift they were always shocked at my calm, relaxed, legal and courteous driving style.

I never make assumptions on how people will drive or behave on the road in relation to what they drive. I was stuck behind a McLaren F1 on the M1, both of us in the slow lan doing 60-65mph for 4-5 hours. The number of what I can only assume to be reps (see badly curb'd wheels and shirts hanging up in the back) trying to encourage the F1 driver to speed up was incredible.

I give everyone on the road enough space, but I believe I did something wrong in a previous life as I appear to be a (use of Geordie here) "spacka magnet" and I just attract numpties. Hence the Road Hawk.

[10:45PM]

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Being an ex skinhead Geordie who supposedly had a less than perfect grasp of the Queens English, now conversing in nigh on perfect gramatical syntax whilst at work, people forget where I was raised. Making quips about the 'Norf' and how we're all retards and love whippet racing and flat caps. .

except it's grammatical

Anyway, I thought we made the same assumptions about southerner barstewards

[sii]

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except it's grammatical

Anyway, I thought we made the same assumptions about southerner barstewards

Typing on an iPhone under my desk whilst in a meeting, I'm impressed any of it is spelt correctly. Let alone in English

I'm the besterest at shpelin and all dat.

[10:45PM]

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Typing on an iPhone under my desk whilst in a meeting, .

[fat_rick]

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Thanks!

[sii]

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Thanks!

Want me to show you where I've mounted mine?

[fat_rick]

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Wouldn't hurt . I think I know where I'm going to put it, though.

[fat_rick]

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Some results from yesterday evening - if it looks a bit grey and monotone that's because it was . On the rather lovely Broadhead Road, which I don't know nearly as well as I intend to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHX5VO7DzDA

It seems to record only five-minute chunks with a five-second video dropout when it changes chunk, which isn't ideal but I can live with it bearing in mind all the other advantages of the system.