Dash Cam cable tidy/cable management

Ariotofmyown

I've got a front windscreen dashcam not hardwired and am fed up now of the connection wire dangling down into my passenger foot well.
Can anyone recommend any devices to use to tidy the cable around my windscreen and passenger door trim so that it stays in place? I've tried to pry the cable into the existing trim but it keeps falling out and have seen reviews for sticky clips that say they lose their adhesion after a day and fall off.
TIA

Scrapit

Just hard wire it. Cheap and simple. Get a kit off eBay. Takes minutes to do.

Ariotofmyown

Scrapit said:

Just hard wire it. Cheap and simple. Get a kit off eBay. Takes minutes to do.

Wouldn't that mean though that there still would be cable from my dashcam on the windscreen to the glove box I need to tidy?

Grumpy_chap

Ariotofmyown said:

fed up now of the connection wire dangling down into my passenger foot well.
I've tried to pry the cable into the existing trim but it keeps falling out 

How did you pry the cable into the trim?  I have done that on three cars and nothing ever came loose / the cable never fell out.  Did you just use your fingers, or pushed the cable in place with a smooth object?

The bit down across the footwell is less easy, but I was still able to find some suitable trim to clip the cable into, and also through the glove box.

I have no experience of the "sticky clips" you refer to so cannot comment on that idea.

What type of car do you have?  Maybe there is something specific and others will have a dashcam in the same vehicle and can say what they did.

Ariotofmyown

Grumpy_chap said:

Ariotofmyown said:

fed up now of the connection wire dangling down into my passenger foot well.
I've tried to pry the cable into the existing trim but it keeps falling out 

How did you pry the cable into the trim?  I have done that on three cars and nothing ever came loose / the cable never fell out.  Did you just use your fingers, or pushed the cable in place with a smooth object?

The bit down across the footwell is less easy, but I was still able to find some suitable trim to clip the cable into, and also through the glove box.

I have no experience of the "sticky clips" you refer to so cannot comment on that idea.

What type of car do you have?  Maybe there is something specific and others will have a dashcam in the same vehicle and can say what they did.

Audi A3. Tried to push the cable in to any available recesses along the side of my windscreen the passenger door pillar adjacent to the windscreen etc with my fingers but the cable keeps falling out.
What clips are you alluding to please 

EssexExile

Mine goes round the screen behind the rubber, at the bottom corner of the screen it goes around the pillar at a joint then behind the rubber door trim to the floor, then it goes under the carpet to the centre console where I've poked it behind a panel. There used to be a couple of inches showing as it approached the 12v socket but now I've hard wired it in behind the socket.
Mine was all just pushed in with my finger nails, some people remove pieces of trim to hide the cable, there are trim removal tools on eBay. Be careful of airbags and other stuff hidden behind trim.
Look on forums for your car or on YouTube for better advice.

JustAnotherSaver

Ariotofmyown said:

Scrapit said:

Just hard wire it. Cheap and simple. Get a kit off eBay. Takes minutes to do.

Wouldn't that mean though that there still would be cable from my dashcam on the windscreen to the glove box I need to tidy?

No.

If you hardwire it and do a good job, you literally only see the cable running from the dash cam itself going in to the headlining where it's tucked out of sight. In my car you see perhaps 3 inch of cable as it does this. In my old car i could get it closer to the roof lining itself so perhaps 1.5inch.

Runs along the headlining, down the A pillar and in through a hole that's already there straight in to behind the glovebox where the fuses are. At first i didn't remove the A pillar and I ran it inside the rubber trim and in to behind the glovebox from below rather than above. No wire was seen.

Not all a bed of roses though.

I don't know what's going on with mine but it's refusing to power up as I turn the key when it's cold. Does it after work no problem when it's a little warmer. Past two days though it wont power it at all or it wont power it properly first thing in a morning.

I was told bad power supply so i bought a dearer one from another seller and it's doing the same.

2 bad supplies is possible but chances shouldn't be too high i would imagine.

Grumpy_chap

Ariotofmyown said:

Grumpy_chap said:

I have no experience of the "sticky clips" you refer to so cannot comment on that idea.

What clips are you alluding to please 

Ariotofmyown said:

have seen reviews for sticky clips that say they lose their adhesion after a day and fall off.

DiddyDavies

JustAnotherSaver said:

I don't know what's going on with mine but it's refusing to power up as I turn the key when it's cold. Does it after work no problem when it's a little warmer. Past two days though it wont power it at all or it wont power it properly first thing in a morning.

I was told bad power supply so i bought a dearer one from another seller and it's doing the same.

2 bad supplies is possible but chances shouldn't be too high i would imagine.

Do you have stop-start (or whatever your particular car manufacturer calls it) on your car?
If so and you've piggybacked off a fuse that is connected to that system, it might help explain the problem you are experiencing as the operation of this is often disabled if it's too cold outside or if the battery voltage is too low.

DiddyDavies

Grumpy_chap said:

Ariotofmyown said:

Grumpy_chap said:

I have no experience of the "sticky clips" you refer to so cannot comment on that idea.

What clips are you alluding to please 

Ariotofmyown said:

have seen reviews for sticky clips that say they lose their adhesion after a day and fall off.

I used these:
Stick on cable 3M clips for all dashcam brands - set of 15 clips | eBay
for my dashcam cable (I only needed a couple) and they've been on my windscreen for about a year now and have never come off.

Scrapit

Ariotofmyown said:

Scrapit said:

Just hard wire it. Cheap and simple. Get a kit off eBay. Takes minutes to do.

Wouldn't that mean though that there still would be cable from my dashcam on the windscreen to the glove box I need to tidy?

Nope