"Jeff Layman" wrote in message
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On 25/01/2021 07:35, alan_m wrote:
On 25/01/2021 03:14, Rod Speed wrote:

Not that easy with some of them and the
mount is still there with the others and
you may well be seen removing it anyway,

Sometimes the hassle is disconnecting the power whist still trying to
keep the power lead neat and hidden inside the roof lining etc.

After a while the new toy is less of a novelty and more of an annoyance
if being removed every time you get out of the car. I guess that most
people with a after market dash cam leave it there 24/365.

Except for an MOT. If it's anywhere in your field of view, it's a fail.

The first time my car had an MOT the garage phoned to say it would fail if
they didn't remove the dashcam, so I told them to take it off. The daftest
thing about this is that it is completely hidden by the sun visor! So if
that's down it blocks far more than the dashcam does. Add to that the
car's central camera/sensor console, which blocks even more from your
field of view through the windscreen, and it all makes even less sense.

And the advice for where you can legally place a dashcam only mentions
places at the edge of the screen or behind the rear-view mirror - places
which the windscreen wipers don't clear, so useless in rain. I put mine
behind the area obscured by the passenger sun visor, right at the top of the
area cleared by the passenger wiper.

At least we haven't prohibited the use of dashcams on privacy grounds,
unlike some European countries. My feeling is that anything which happens on
the road is a "public place" and you shouldn't have any expectation of
privacy.