Most of the fuse locations on the passenger fuse box is permanent live there is only two that are a switched delay fuse 52 and the seat occupant sensor circuit which I wouldn't tap as it could make the airbag fail to deploy in an accident.

Fuse 52 shuts down when the car is locked or around 5 minutes when the ignition lock activates when the engine is switched off.

DEG5Y wrote:

If your delving into the fuseboxes then you must have a certain amount of 'nouse' about you. So can I suggest something I did;

I bought one of these from ebay.


soldered two wires onto one end and added a short usb lead ,with correct connector for the camera, to the other. A bit of heat-shrink over it to stop it coming apart and to insulate it.
Then by removing the interior light, you can access the switched live feed and the return for the rear view mirror. These need to be separated and bared so you can solder the wires to them. Re-insulate with tape and tuck it all out of the way.
All you need to do now is feed your plug wire out behind the mirror, plug it in, stick cam to the top of the window and you end up with a very inconspicuous installation. No wires on show.

Glad to have been of help.

Funnily enough though, I revisited mine only the other day to change the short interconnecting lead for a different dash cam.

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RazMan wrote:

DEG5Y wrote:

If your delving into the fuseboxes then you must have a certain amount of 'nouse' about you. So can I suggest something I did;

I bought one of these from ebay.


soldered two wires onto one end and added a short usb lead ,with correct connector for the camera, to the other. A bit of heat-shrink over it to stop it coming apart and to insulate it.
Then by removing the interior light, you can access the switched live feed and the return for the rear view mirror. These need to be separated and bared so you can solder the wires to them. Re-insulate with tape and tuck it all out of the way.
All you need to do now is feed your plug wire out behind the mirror, plug it in, stick cam to the top of the window and you end up with a very inconspicuous installation. No wires on show.

Genius ! I ordered one of those little modules (about £2 if I recall) and picked up power and ground from the interior mirror feed as suggested (ignition feed is violet and ground is black/yellow) and the whole job took me less than an hour to complete - looks very tidy too