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I’ve been enjoying my 2024 Trailhunter for about a month now, and one of my first priorities was installing a dashcam. I initially bought a Dongar Pro after seeing it heavily recommended online. It’s a great product, but it’s not fully compatible with VIOFO cameras, which I wanted to use—specifically, it doesn’t support their built-
in parking mode. I still wanted a clean install, so I started exploring alternatives that didn’t require tapping into the fuse box, which seems to have limited space.
**If you just want to power a camera and don't care about parking mode, use the Dongar adapters. If you want to add a parking mode to a camera that doesn't have a built in one then go with the Dongar Pro. If you have a camera with a built in parking mode and want to use it, read on.**
Here's what you'll need:
A dashcam. I like the VIOFO A229:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MRVP2PX
A hardwire or fusetap for your camera. This is the one for the VIOFO A229
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MRVP2PX
A plug for the OEM dashcam power (90980-12366). Get the female plug with the wires already pinned, trust me. I'm an electrical engineer and thought I would be slick by pinning it myself and it was a huge pain and I gave up after pinning just one wire. You can use a wire tap/splice if you would like but I did not want to cut into the wire harness:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806039270154.html
Some sort of crimp or solder connector and whatever related tools you need to connect the wires on the plug to the wires for the hardwire kit.
Here's what you'll need to do:
1. Connect the wires from the plug to the wires for your hardwire kit. Black is ground, red is 12VDC constant, and yellow is 12VDC accessory. Wire them as shown in the photo. You can cut the other wires short.
2. Remove the dome light. Pull straight down on the front on both sides. There are 2 red clips that hold it in. I was unlucky and broke one after removing it a few tomes. You can buy them on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGPHRJ8T
3. Plug it into the OEM dashcam plug that should be present on all 2024+ models. Maybe not SR, but I'm not sure. I'd recommend testing it first before mounting and wiring everything in.
ALL DONE! That's it. Pretty plug and play, the only hard part is crimping the wires and waiting for the slow boat from China to deliver the connector.
Some notes on cable routing. The space next to the dome light is fairly cavernous and you should be able to stash most of your excess wire up there.
The clip for the visor comes off with a quarter turn counter clockwise and it lets you pull the headliner down a little to tuck cables and do the final wiring.
If you have a rear camera I would recommend starting from the back and stashing any excess in the headliner once you get to the front. Otherwise it's pretty standard, follow the headliner around to the door seals and then go from door seal to pillar to door seal to pillar in the rear and then tuck the rest into the headliner in the back.
in parking mode. I still wanted a clean install, so I started exploring alternatives that didn’t require tapping into the fuse box, which seems to have limited space.
**If you just want to power a camera and don't care about parking mode, use the Dongar adapters. If you want to add a parking mode to a camera that doesn't have a built in one then go with the Dongar Pro. If you have a camera with a built in parking mode and want to use it, read on.**
Here's what you'll need:
A dashcam. I like the VIOFO A229:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MRVP2PX
A hardwire or fusetap for your camera. This is the one for the VIOFO A229
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MRVP2PX
A plug for the OEM dashcam power (90980-12366). Get the female plug with the wires already pinned, trust me. I'm an electrical engineer and thought I would be slick by pinning it myself and it was a huge pain and I gave up after pinning just one wire. You can use a wire tap/splice if you would like but I did not want to cut into the wire harness:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806039270154.html
Some sort of crimp or solder connector and whatever related tools you need to connect the wires on the plug to the wires for the hardwire kit.
Here's what you'll need to do:
1. Connect the wires from the plug to the wires for your hardwire kit. Black is ground, red is 12VDC constant, and yellow is 12VDC accessory. Wire them as shown in the photo. You can cut the other wires short.
2. Remove the dome light. Pull straight down on the front on both sides. There are 2 red clips that hold it in. I was unlucky and broke one after removing it a few tomes. You can buy them on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGPHRJ8T
3. Plug it into the OEM dashcam plug that should be present on all 2024+ models. Maybe not SR, but I'm not sure. I'd recommend testing it first before mounting and wiring everything in.
ALL DONE! That's it. Pretty plug and play, the only hard part is crimping the wires and waiting for the slow boat from China to deliver the connector.
Some notes on cable routing. The space next to the dome light is fairly cavernous and you should be able to stash most of your excess wire up there.
The clip for the visor comes off with a quarter turn counter clockwise and it lets you pull the headliner down a little to tuck cables and do the final wiring.
If you have a rear camera I would recommend starting from the back and stashing any excess in the headliner once you get to the front. Otherwise it's pretty standard, follow the headliner around to the door seals and then go from door seal to pillar to door seal to pillar in the rear and then tuck the rest into the headliner in the back.
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