The side curtain airbags are all along the roofline, just above the doors. When I installed my dual dashcam in my Niro EV, I ran the wire under the airbags. I will actually be making a video of the installation process in my EV6; I am just waiting on the arrival of my dashcam kit. As long as the weather clears up I will be making a detailed video, but please be patient as it will be a pretty big job to make. My channel is called EV-olution.

 

Thanks for the info. I’ll keep checking out your channel….I’m very patient and plenty of time before my vehicle arrive

 

I ran mine across the roof line. No need to take the pillar trim off. You can get the wire between the trim and headliner. You will need to pull the door weatherstrip down but that’s easy. Once I got to the rear, I did pull the rear driver side trim off so that I could run the wire through the factory rubber grommet between the body and the lift gate. Then the camera is mounted on the top plastic trim above the window of the lift gate. That center trim pops of very easily.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

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Nice adapter (bought myself), but not for connecting the rear camera. This adapter is used for powering the dashcam of the rear-view mirror.

 

As per my original starting question. I have no problem with wiring the front dashcam using one of these dongles which takes its power from the rear view mirror (so should power down when car is switched off (no battery drain)).
I was asking about routing the cable from the front dashcam to the rear dashcam?
The rear dashcam cannot have a separate power source and must plug into the front dashcam.

 

the dual camera setup I have powers the rear camera from the front. The power and video are all part of a single cable

 

Why install dash cams 🤔 is it for driving or parking security? I've never understood the need.

 

After having a crazy teenage driver run into me then claim I cut her off only to call her father who turned up and threatened to assault me, I got one. The Police failed to make a determination of fault after hearing both stories but did fine her for failure to display her P-plates and issued her old man with a caution. People will lie to the Police, lie to their insurers and do anything they can to get out of being held responsible for their actions in causing an accident.

Fortunately, we both had the same insurer and I'd been a long term rating one customer with them and she was a 6-month (in)experienced P-plater so they took my word over hers. But insurers will often partition blame if the parties dispute who is responsible and you both end up paying a claims excess. Dash cameras can save you money.

 

Ex-owner... 😂

We test drove the ipace Jag, felt like climbing into a van. Not impressed! Test drove quite a few others too, the obvious choice was always the EV6 🤤

 

Dashcam saved my daughter from a potential at-fault finding--other driver was backing out of a parking stall, didn't see my daughter's vehicle about to drive past him, he wound up backing into front right of my daughter's car. Other driver could have easily tried to paint a picture of how it was my daughter's vehicle that clipped his rear--thankfully the dashcam captured the entire event...slam dunk win for my daughter! Side note--driver's wife tried to tell the cop that she was the one who was behind the wheel; turns out the driver had an expired driver's license, which would probably explain the wife's actions...sheesh!

 

This is NOT meant to be a complete guide on how to install a dashcam and skips multiple important steps. However, this should help others in installing a dashcam. I used a dual dash-cam setup where the main dashcam is hardwired into the cabin fuse box (both accessory and constant power) and the rear dashcam has a wire that runs to the main dashcam. If you haven't installed a dashcam before, go watch some existing videos on installing / hardwiring a dashcam, then look at these pictures for any EV6 specific ideas.

First image shows my general routing. Yellow is the power cable, blue is the rear camera cable. They both start right in front of the rearview mirror and go straight into the camera (see later pictures). The power is tapped into the "USB" fuse for the accessory cable and "Door Lock" fuse for the constant power parking mode (thanks /u/yiumad from Reddit). Be careful with your wiring here to not interfere with the airbags, it's best to take the entire A-pillar trim off (there's a tether clip towards the top that partially releases the trim, but you need to press on the clip on the car body side from both top and bottom to release it to not damage the tether clip):

This shows the path of the rear cable back. It was a bit of a struggle to get the cable neatly tucked around the C-pillar window.

In addition to the A-pillar, this is the other hard part. I was ultimately able to do it without completely removing the trim, but just detaching the top of the trim to create a gap as shown below. If you have large hands/fingers, you may not be able to do this and may have to take the entire trim off instead. Basically snake the rear camera wire up through the rubber piece as shown. A micro USB cable barely was able to be snaked through this rubber piece because of the size of the connector on the end. An angled connector definitely wouldn't fit through it. If you need more room, there's more room in the rubber piece of the right side of the car as there are fewer factory cables going through it (you'd have to route your camera cable on the right side of the car then):

Here are some completed pictures (car is super dirty from the rain etc). Front view

A close up of the cables going to the front camera.

Driver view of what you see in day-to-day life:

Looking backwards:

A couple pics showing the rear camera (privacy tint makes you basically unable to see the camera from the outside). This is the only area where I drilled a little groove for the rear camera cable to come out of the trim piece (blue arrow, trim piece would not sit flush otherwise).

 

I routed mine the same, except I used the mirror adapter for power and my rear camera is slightly different. I came out of the trim at the bottom and didn’t need to cut or trim anything. So if I remove it later, you’ll never know it was there. Couple pics of what the cameras see also. The screen shot isn’t that great, but the actual video is super crisp and clear.

 

…I came out of the trim at the bottom and didn’t need to cut or trim anything…

I tried that initially, but my rear cable is chunky so the trim didn’t sit flush and it bugged me. Looks like a good setup.

All things said… really wish Kia just let us use the built in cameras to record. It’s stupid that the hardware is mostly there, just not allowed.

 

I went a slightly different rout. I got the Wolfbox G850 rearview mirror dashcam. It said to install it on the outside of the car so I put it under the spoiler. It definitely eliminates the blind spots with a small window. Hopefully the 3M tape lasts.

 

I went a slightly different rout. I got the Wolfbox G850 rearview mirror dashcam. It said to install it on the outside of the car so I put it under the spoiler. It definitely eliminates the blind spots with a small window. Hopefully the 3M tape lasts.
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Interesting you put your rear camera off to the side. I have the Wolfbox T10 and placed the rearview as far back as i could in the middle to make it a bit less noticeable.

As for the 3m tape, if they use the same ones, that thing will hold for decades. I've removed and remounted mines so many times and that tape is still sticking like brand new.