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?
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
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.
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.
As bad as this is, just be glad that the last word of the greentext isn’t “vape”