I got this dashcam for my birthday over 6 months ago.

I was given this after my car had to be repaired last year. It records both forward and back in 1080p. Nice. In this picture, I have already soldered in the adapter with two lead wires and the USB-A output. No, I didn't take a picture of the box, sorry. I got a new windshield because I drive to work behind construction cement and gravel trucks and one of them did my windshield in before I could get it to the glass shop. Damn. Well, new windshield makes a great time to put this in.

This is the connector to my powered mirror.

This is a great place to connect the power adapter in so I don't have to run cables all over my dash.

Pinout.

Pin 1 being on the left was ground. Pin 3 was positive 12V. Pin 2 is a signal. The other pins don't have female connectors on the harness.

Soldered the wires right into the female connector.

I used a pick-awl to pop the connectors loose from the plastic housing. It was a tight fit back into the housing with the extra wires, but again the pick-awl helped get them in without too much issue.

Here it is with the wires connected.

This seems a bit unsightly, but I haven't adjusted everything yet. I want to make sure it works before I lock everything in place.

The SD card.

So when I turned the car on, the dashcam would start up and promptly turn off. I removed the 8GB SD card that I had put in and tried to format it. Nope it's toast. This thing has a formatting option in the menu, but I like to make sure I wasn't stupid and left something on the card that wasn't backed up. I had a 32GB left from upgrading the child's phone last month, and it was backed up. Lucky me! This thing maxes out at 32GB.

There it is.

It rained the night before I installed this, so my new windshield is rather dirty. The important part: No Wires Everywhere. Nothing dragging down to my *not* cigarette lighter.

Enough Procrastinating.

I was actually supposed to replace my CV axle first, but I couldn't help myself.