Hi all,
After reading advice here and elsewhere about dashcams we have bought daughter a (hopefully) reasonable / starter one. It's primary role will be in her 01 Transit Connect and that has what I assume is just a sun visor / mesh on the inside (no heated screen), between the sun visors and coming down about as far as the sun visors when lowered.
Because she has a bulkhead in the van she doesn't have a rear view mirror so the ideal place for the dashcam would be up there, but what of this 'mesh'?
The camera (the Viofo A119) came with a GPS-mount and assuming this mesh is just a non conductive paint, shouldn't affect the GPS but if the camera is positioned low enough to look under the mesh, it's getting close to her line of sight (road signs / traffic lights etc) not helped by her being fairly tall.
So, rather than putting the camera either side of the centre / mesh, would anyone know if it would be possible to remove said mesh with say a razor blade tool, at least to make a little 'window' for the camera lens itself? Then it could be mounted as high as possible and as near the centre as possible (for what different the latter makes, other than not fouling or being fouled by the sun visors).
I haven't tried to do so yet as I thought I might ask here first (but I might give it a look tomorrow as she / the van are about).
Cheers, T i m