moonstone
Tyre Kicker
I had one on my RS5. It was an Audi-branded number that was hardwired in the wiring of the car. Wasn't the best to be honest. I hadn't bothered with one for the M4 but was involved in a fairly ugly road-rage incident last week when taking the kids the school and it prompted me to fit one today.
Long story short I followed the car in front of me turning left at a junction (on to a main road) with a fairly decent gap between and the next car coming along. I realised I was going to make the guy slow a bit but my rationale was that the car in front of me was doing that anyway and there was still a good 4 car lengths of a gap. Anyway the jumper-and-scarf wearing Dane Bowers look-a-like in his Mitsubishi Warrior wasn't happy and decided to make his displeasure felt by putting the foot down to close the gap until he was sitting on my back bumper. I dabbed the brakes and slowed to a crawl as I was coming up to a filter lane to that would take me on my right-hand turn to street with the kids school on it. After failing to overtake me here as I moved over the right, the guy followed me, flew past me at 40mph on a 20mph road packed with cars and kids and cut me off, forcing my car to a halt. Queue much shouting and bawling at each other and near fisty-cuffs but as the chap started to thrust his chest out and keep asking me "what was that?" in that laughably cardboard "I'm going to fight you" type way, he thought better of it and backed down before getting back in his car and driving off. Not before blocking the entire road and holding up countless parents and kids trying to get to school.
Apparently the reason from him accelerating to zoom up my backside was because he "has a truck that slides". I thought that particularly laughable...
For my part, I shouldn't have reacted to the guy zooming up my arse but what followed was wholly unnecessary and down-right dangerous. I had my previous dashcam as much for the parking mode as for actual driving and wanted the same for the M4. But immediately after this I couldnt help thinking I wished I'd had a dash-cam on this car so ordered one that day.
Problem is that dual-channel seems to be pretty tricky due to the convertible roof so I just went for a single channel Blackvue DR900X which has integrated power management (older models required a separate box called a Power Magic), is 4K quality and has cloud functionality.
BMW F80, F82, F83 Dashcam wiring fuse locations
Took me a while to find this online so just in case anyone ever searches for the above. Constant live goes to fuse 161 and ignition live goes to fuse 143.
IN CAR MI-FI
The Blackview DR900X has cloud functionality where if it detects a collision or anything else happening to your car when parked it can send an alert to your phone. Such functionality was missing on the Audi one I had previously and I'd quite like this. I'm thinking of putting an a 4G access point in the car. Anyone recommend one in particular and also any decent 12 month data-sims?
Long story short I followed the car in front of me turning left at a junction (on to a main road) with a fairly decent gap between and the next car coming along. I realised I was going to make the guy slow a bit but my rationale was that the car in front of me was doing that anyway and there was still a good 4 car lengths of a gap. Anyway the jumper-and-scarf wearing Dane Bowers look-a-like in his Mitsubishi Warrior wasn't happy and decided to make his displeasure felt by putting the foot down to close the gap until he was sitting on my back bumper. I dabbed the brakes and slowed to a crawl as I was coming up to a filter lane to that would take me on my right-hand turn to street with the kids school on it. After failing to overtake me here as I moved over the right, the guy followed me, flew past me at 40mph on a 20mph road packed with cars and kids and cut me off, forcing my car to a halt. Queue much shouting and bawling at each other and near fisty-cuffs but as the chap started to thrust his chest out and keep asking me "what was that?" in that laughably cardboard "I'm going to fight you" type way, he thought better of it and backed down before getting back in his car and driving off. Not before blocking the entire road and holding up countless parents and kids trying to get to school.
Apparently the reason from him accelerating to zoom up my backside was because he "has a truck that slides". I thought that particularly laughable...
For my part, I shouldn't have reacted to the guy zooming up my arse but what followed was wholly unnecessary and down-right dangerous. I had my previous dashcam as much for the parking mode as for actual driving and wanted the same for the M4. But immediately after this I couldnt help thinking I wished I'd had a dash-cam on this car so ordered one that day.
Problem is that dual-channel seems to be pretty tricky due to the convertible roof so I just went for a single channel Blackvue DR900X which has integrated power management (older models required a separate box called a Power Magic), is 4K quality and has cloud functionality.
BMW F80, F82, F83 Dashcam wiring fuse locations
Took me a while to find this online so just in case anyone ever searches for the above. Constant live goes to fuse 161 and ignition live goes to fuse 143.
IN CAR MI-FI
The Blackview DR900X has cloud functionality where if it detects a collision or anything else happening to your car when parked it can send an alert to your phone. Such functionality was missing on the Audi one I had previously and I'd quite like this. I'm thinking of putting an a 4G access point in the car. Anyone recommend one in particular and also any decent 12 month data-sims?
