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Integrated Dashcam + Rear Dashcam VW Golf MK8 Estate
"So before purchasing both the integrated dashcam and rear dashcams with the GPS tag, I contacted Mercylion to confirm the front to rear cable would be long enough as the car is an estate. They were quick to confirm, also I like the service where you send them photo's and they confirm the dashcam is correct for the car before ordering. It was about 7 days for delivery from China to the UK so good. It took me around 70 minutes to install them both, very easy to route the cable and just tuck under the edge of the headliner. I found using two plastic pry's for opening mobile phone cases, worked great on the existing VW plastic housing, this made it easier for making the gap open ready for the larger pry tool supplied, no broken clips hooray. I also found a 2mm terminal screwdriver to lever the rain sensor plug from the right side easily pops it out for the splitter to be fitted. As I purchased the rear cam as well along with the GPS tag, there is a far bit of cable to hide in the headliner above the integrated dash cam but its possible, just something to bear in mind when re-fitting the housings. I did find when connecting the Mercylion app on Android that it kept disconnecting, this turned out to be the VW Connect and you have to temporarily disable auto connect or it knocks off the connection to the dashcam, even if you answer the VW Connect request as 'No'. The app feels basic, if I'm honest I don't see me using that unless i need to alter any settings, its easier to pop the SD card and view on a PC. The SD places files in two folders, GPS Data folder - Txt files with the GPS tracker data. Novatek folder - This has three sub folders, EMR, Movie and Photo, the first would store footage if the G-Sensor activated in a bump or crash, the 2nd folder stores everyday footage and the last for any screen captures taken. (I set the recording to to 5 minute blocks). The captured footage is good, clear enough to be useful if ever needed, hopefully not. So why 4 stars 1) If you download footage using the app, when played it should show the route taken on a map, this does not work for me, the map just opens at its default location in China. I've tried two phones and an emulator on a PC and could not get this to work, my guess is its not linking the footage to the GPS txt files - like I said above I'm unlikely to use the app anyway, the GPS coordinates and speed are burned into the footage that I can view on my laptop. 2) Although the footage for the front and rear cameras burn the speed, comparing these I can see the speed recorded are both in MPH, however for some reason the rear camera details this as KM/h even though its MPH - There is no way to alter this in the settings which is a shame. 3) I have found that random footage ends in the EMR folder as well as the Movie folder even though the G-Sensor should not have activated, as an example following a recent drive I had 26 * 5 minutes files (13 for the front camera and 13 for the back, four of these which were part router ended up in the EMR folder) - odd, but not an issue as longer as its captured and I know where to find them if ever needed. Also something good to know if your car is right hand drive, you wont be able to see the LED indicator to see if the camera is working as these are on the left side."
