"F it, it's just plastic" Tiny modification to trim for dashcam wires

[clavicus]

I kinda avoided doing this for a while even though I knew I should... just cut out a little bit of the black plastic BLIS camera cover trim to get my dashcam wires out of sight. Very tiny modification but I thought it would be nicer to have the wires gone. My drill bit jumped a tiny bit in my feeble attempts to be accurate while making the cutout.

I started out with the drill press which actually worked pretty well to cut the general shape of it. Then a round file to eat out the extra plastic, but I realized the file was a bit larger diameter than I wanted, so I tried to carefully use a dremel with a cutoff wheel at a slow speed, but that was kind of unwieldy... then tried free-handing with a drill bit in a cordless drill. Went back to the file and just committed to the file diameter even though it was larger than I was going for. Cleaned it up with some high grit sandpaper.

5/10 job visually, but success

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[KenC]

Are you using a power source behind that plastic for your dash cam?

 

[clavicus]

Are you using a power source behind that plastic for your dash cam?

I did a whole thing of running a power cable from the fuse box up to the cavity above the dome lights. I did not like the idea of tapping into the power used by a safety system, so I opted to use unused system fuses #1/2 (Micro3 fuse) and #24

Way more info than you want probably :
https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/f...-video-hardwire-front-and-rear-dashcam.10624/

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