kamkar
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- 10 years, many dashcams
So after having been testing cameras for years in my car, i have had a substantial number of cameras attached, not least in the prime center spot on the dotted area in front of my mirror.
But lately the residue left behind when i have taken them off have caused some problems for mew cameras staying in place, so today i decided to do a spring cleaning of that dotted area and also the top L corner of the windscreen where i put GPS antennas.
So my tools of choice for this was my trusty old Kent - Speedy 500 solvent.
And then a old Nike T shirt i got in Singapore in 1990 as a rag, plus my pocket knife to scrape off the worst of the residue.
First i attacked the upper Left corner where the glass are plain, i also removed a old inspection sticker, this area was pretty uneventful, just wiping with the T - shirt ( the sleeve part soaked in the Speedy 500 )
After removing what i could with my knife blade the APPROX 2 Sq inch of old sticky pad residue was gone after a few minutes wiping back and forth with my solvent.
I then proceeded to the dotted area, where in the following pic you can still see a not cleaned section right next to where my DR camera would be mounted, as you can see there some times there are a lot gunk left.
Other times the pad come off like it was never there, i can only assume this is due to the kind of pad used.
Anyway attacked in the same order as in the corner, but here on the dotted or actually holed area, well getting into those holes proved to be more problematic, and to be honest after 30 minutes of rubbing and re-soaking my rag as the speedy 500 evaporate fast i called it quits.
Even if the stuff was not completely gone, and at least with my eyes pretty easy to see where the pads have been ( 3 of them on the dotted area towards the left side )
but my phone camera actually look okay clean, but trust me it is not, at least not visually as seen with human eyes.
Anyway after a few minutes i put the main unit of the A139 system on the windscreen on the dots where i have just cleaned it to the best of my patience, so now to see if the damn thing will stay in place,,,, but i feel good about this.
The dotted area or as you can see in my case holed area, well it is baked onto the inner side of the windscreen, but even scraping with my knife i did not ruin any of it.
But it do hamper cleaning somewhat, but maybe even stronger solvents would be better, i just had Speedy 500 around so i used that.
Anyways as you can see by my picture, even if it lie a bit, then it can be done and people should not fear sticking cameras to the windscreen.
But lately the residue left behind when i have taken them off have caused some problems for mew cameras staying in place, so today i decided to do a spring cleaning of that dotted area and also the top L corner of the windscreen where i put GPS antennas.
So my tools of choice for this was my trusty old Kent - Speedy 500 solvent.
And then a old Nike T shirt i got in Singapore in 1990 as a rag, plus my pocket knife to scrape off the worst of the residue.
First i attacked the upper Left corner where the glass are plain, i also removed a old inspection sticker, this area was pretty uneventful, just wiping with the T - shirt ( the sleeve part soaked in the Speedy 500 )
After removing what i could with my knife blade the APPROX 2 Sq inch of old sticky pad residue was gone after a few minutes wiping back and forth with my solvent.
I then proceeded to the dotted area, where in the following pic you can still see a not cleaned section right next to where my DR camera would be mounted, as you can see there some times there are a lot gunk left.
Other times the pad come off like it was never there, i can only assume this is due to the kind of pad used.
Anyway attacked in the same order as in the corner, but here on the dotted or actually holed area, well getting into those holes proved to be more problematic, and to be honest after 30 minutes of rubbing and re-soaking my rag as the speedy 500 evaporate fast i called it quits.
Even if the stuff was not completely gone, and at least with my eyes pretty easy to see where the pads have been ( 3 of them on the dotted area towards the left side )
but my phone camera actually look okay clean, but trust me it is not, at least not visually as seen with human eyes.
Anyway after a few minutes i put the main unit of the A139 system on the windscreen on the dots where i have just cleaned it to the best of my patience, so now to see if the damn thing will stay in place,,,, but i feel good about this.
The dotted area or as you can see in my case holed area, well it is baked onto the inner side of the windscreen, but even scraping with my knife i did not ruin any of it.
But it do hamper cleaning somewhat, but maybe even stronger solvents would be better, i just had Speedy 500 around so i used that.
Anyways as you can see by my picture, even if it lie a bit, then it can be done and people should not fear sticking cameras to the windscreen.