norseman

Well-Known Member

• Apr 19, 2017

• #1

Hi guys - I have done a search but without success. I have been given a new good quality dash-cam which I can run from the cigar lighter in our daily, but for some strange reason the power plug will not mate with the standard lighter socket(s) in my '87 Classic. The plug goes into the socket but is like a p.... in a bucket so have such basic items changed over the years & if so has anyone come across some form of adapter? I have a hard-wire kit but am concerned about messing with 30 year-old interior trim.
Thanks in advance.

 

cooltide

sheep fancier

• Apr 19, 2017

• #2

Yes some come with adapter on nose end if it is the type I'm thinking of.

 

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pete1987RRC

Well-Known Member

• Apr 19, 2017

• #3

You probably have a metric digital plug on the dash cam and the RRC was fitted with a good old brummie analogue imperial socket.
On a more positive note the dash trim is probably a million more times stronger and much easier to strip than today's digital mounded dash boards and you can probably pick up a live by removing the panel secured by 4 screws under the steering wheel, you could try to go in the back of the fuse box but that's a fiddle.

 

norseman

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2017

• #4

Thanks for the replies guys - no adaptor so it looks like either (a) pack out the plug to improve the fit or (b) go down the hard-wire route.

 

Alan Crossley

Well-Known Member

• Apr 21, 2017

• #5

Go hard wire and do away with that long, dangling wire for ever

 

norseman

Well-Known Member

• Apr 22, 2017

• #6

Alan Crossley said:

Go hard wire and do away with that long, dangling wire for ever

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Going over to the car (not kept at home) to fiddle with the cigar plug option, but I think you're right

 

norseman

Well-Known Member

• Apr 24, 2017

• #7

Update :
Despite being a sloppy fit the plug does in fact make connection, so I have wedged it tight & the 'cam is working. Will go for the hard-wire when I have both time & courage.