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Thanks for this post! It prompted me to get a similar camera, which was really easy to install, and now works without me having to think about it.
One odd question. The Ebay ad for my camera mentioned the ability to bring up the footage on the Mercedes Comand screen. That seems miraculous and impossible to me -- and my hunch might very well be correct, since I sent a question to the seller and the answer was vague and not very helpful. Has anyone found a way to get a wi-fi signal to show up on the car's display screen?
Also: it seems like it would be awesome to also have a rear-view camera, although I'd prefer it to be attached to the back of the car, and not shooting through the cabin. Is there a little camera that could attach to my license plate frame that would use a micro SD card to keep a looped recording? I suppose I could buy another front-view model and adapt it to work with power from the trunk and install it in the bumper. But maybe there's a ready-made solution for this?
I liked the dash cam so much, I rstill egretted not having ordered one that had a rear-facing camera as well. So I ordered a second, identical camera, and chopped it apart to make a rear-facing model that I installed right inside my rear bumper and powered it off of the rear fuse block.
'Cut into your rear bumper,' you say? Well, in my case my rear bumper is all scratched up and also damaged from someone hitting me in a parking lot. I have a new rear bumper skin, but haven't installed it yet. So I didn't feel I was risking much by drilling into my (old) bumper.
To cut the camera itself out, I unscrewed it, cut all the front-C300 stuff from the casing that I didn't need, and then hot-glued the remaining piece of plastic to a rectangle-shaped hole filler. It's been working great for a couple of weeks, now.
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