I recently got an email reminder to pay for a toll via an e sticker thingamabob on my car.
Problem: My car got stolen over a year ago.
Why do they only have one working car port anyway?
Most cars, especially older ones, only have one cigarette lighter. How many cigarettes could you possibly need to light?
All of them.
The cigarette lighter port is not a great connector because of how big it is, and it’s pretty inconsistent when it turns off between cars (never does in 2007 Škoda Fabia). I replaced the dashcam adapter’s contacts with wires and installed it in the fusebox (accessible when driver door is open), branching off the headlight adjustment servo fuse. No loose cables anywhere.
And the port switch off when contact is off, plugged in the fuse box you can have it on while parked and some dashcam has parked mode which consume less energy and record some frames
As I wrote, the lighter socket in my car stays on forever so it’s not ideal for me (it’s primarily an action cam with no accelerometer, GPS or motion detect so it can’t tell it’s parked and would run the battery flat and put wear on the SD). You can choose various circuits in the fuse box to tap into.
Both of my dash cams came with a dual port adapter
The better question is why were they using the car port? Most dashcams come with power adapters to plug into a standard fuse box and can be very easily routed through interior panels with basically no tools, no permanent modifications, and absolutely no expertise required.
Absolute worst case, a local garage will almost definitely do a fitting for less that £50 and it’s worth it to avoid this exact thing happening.
Yay! There are dual USB adapters. And the system puts out lots of wattage
“lots of wattage” is debatable
Probably for the best - since the accident was probably little bro’s fault.
Well if they’re lucky then their idiot brother won’t be making that mistake again.
Yeah, what idiot blocks the charging port (cigarette lighter) and doesn’t give an alternative? That’s expected behavior if you think about it at all.
Literally the first accessory I got with my dashcam was a lighter plug with 2 ports so both can be running at the same time.
Narrator: They weren’t lucky.
As bad as this is, just be glad that the last word of the greentext isn’t “vape”
Should have given him a phone charger
Anons brother was at fault in the accident n deleted the footage so he wouldn’t get in trouble… Assuming this isn’t fake, and / or…
This is why you hardwire the dashcam.
Anything expensive, a kid should earn. No way to appreciate value otherwise. First car? Kid has to earn it. Doesn’t matter if it’s a sweetheart 0% interest loan - they need to make payments.
Yep. My fam does the same thing.
Who else had a older sibling buy a car for them (You) ?
My parents bought mine, which I inherited from my older siblings (we shared the third car). It was a pile of crap and was older than all of us kids. In fact, after the first and second ones died (never drove the first, only drove the second for a few months), the third (the one I used the most) cost $150…
My siblings helped me with them though, so I think it counts.
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