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Howdy! Didn't find a tutorial here before I started wiring up my dashcam in the usual way last week, figured I'd add some photos showing the process and what not. Few things to keep in mind compared to most cars I've worked on in the past:
- The interior fuse box is not behind the glovebox on the passenger side. It's behind the steering column trim panel that houses the headlight switch.
- I originally tried using fuse #3 because I figured the side mirror controls were on switched power -- they are not switched. I instead used fuse #2 despite there being a 10A fuse there. Typically you want to add-a-fuse to a matching or close to matching slot already in use, so up to you all where you feel best adding your accessories.
- Start by locating the interior fuse box -- it's behind the steering column trim panel. Grab the panel like so, making sure you don't also grab the metal support structure right behind it. If you pull down on that metal support structure, you'll have a bad day
Pull down where my hand is with decent force, sharply, being careful to not break the replaceable blue clips holding the panel in place
- Once you've pulled the panel down, you'll see the fuse panel back and to the left. Here's a photo with some annotations of how I wired up my dash cam: the red circle shows my add-a-fuse tap in fuse slot #2 for reasons mentioned beforehand, the blue circle shows where I chose to ground this accessory (the black bolt above it did not provide a reliable ground connection, YMMV), and the yellow arrow shows where I routed the cable that goes to my accessory.
- The reason I chose to route the accessory's cable the direction that yellow arrow is pointing is because there's an access hole in the metal support structure between the steering column trim panel and the side trim panel. Feeding the wire through this access hole allows you to cleanly route the power cable without crimping it between any of these trim panels when you close them back up. Gently pry off the side trim panel shown below so you can access the power cable while you route it through the hole from the fuse box.
- The hardest part is complete! The rest is simply pressing gently on the various trim panels and headliner so you can wedge the power cable behind them and cleanly hide them from view. If your power cable is too thin to be wedged cleanly behind the trim panels (especially the headliner which has a lot of play), use some electrical tape to wrap around parts of the cable to thicken it a bit. This will make it easier to wedge into place. Follow the blue arrows below for an easy route up to your destination.
- All that's left is cleaning up your work! Make sure you secure all of the wires you added in the fuse box area -- I chose to use zipties to secure the new cables to the pre-existing headlight switch cables so they don't come loose and get tangled up behind the trim panel. Please take care when doing this, because your steering column is not very far away from the fusebox itself. Don't leave any loose cables laying around!
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