boolves
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Hello, new here.
About a month ago I've bought a Thinkware U1000, I had an audio guy professionally hard-wire it to my 2012 Chevy Volt Hybrid.
Now, about a week or so ago. I was driving down the freeway and got Christmas tree'd lights on my dashboard and an alert that said no engine power followed by actual no power from the gas peddle even though the car turned on.
So I towed it to my shop, they pulled the codes and said the 12v battery was dead but were perplexed because they had replaced it about a year prior. However honored the warranty and put a new one in and I threw a couple dollars on top to get a better quality battery.
The day I picked it up, I put about 100 miles on it before I get the same no engine power again. Frustratingly, I tow it back to my autoshop. They tell me the codes are saying it's a bad transmission but would need to send it out.
I explained to them that I had the dashcam for a month, and they mentioned it could be causing the issuers... So we cleared the codes and I have been driving it with the dashcam unplugged for about a week and have put about 700 miles on the car almost with zero issues.
So it makes me think 2 things. Either the hardwaring was done wrong or maybe I have some sort of settings on the camera wrong. Could it be that the camera is pulling too much voltage from the battery triggering these issues and the killed battery? I thought It protected itself from these type of things? I set the cameras default threshold to 12v. Or should I just take it back to the audio guy and have him relook at the hard-wiring?
Thanks for your help
About a month ago I've bought a Thinkware U1000, I had an audio guy professionally hard-wire it to my 2012 Chevy Volt Hybrid.
Now, about a week or so ago. I was driving down the freeway and got Christmas tree'd lights on my dashboard and an alert that said no engine power followed by actual no power from the gas peddle even though the car turned on.
So I towed it to my shop, they pulled the codes and said the 12v battery was dead but were perplexed because they had replaced it about a year prior. However honored the warranty and put a new one in and I threw a couple dollars on top to get a better quality battery.
The day I picked it up, I put about 100 miles on it before I get the same no engine power again. Frustratingly, I tow it back to my autoshop. They tell me the codes are saying it's a bad transmission but would need to send it out.
I explained to them that I had the dashcam for a month, and they mentioned it could be causing the issuers... So we cleared the codes and I have been driving it with the dashcam unplugged for about a week and have put about 700 miles on the car almost with zero issues.
So it makes me think 2 things. Either the hardwaring was done wrong or maybe I have some sort of settings on the camera wrong. Could it be that the camera is pulling too much voltage from the battery triggering these issues and the killed battery? I thought It protected itself from these type of things? I set the cameras default threshold to 12v. Or should I just take it back to the audio guy and have him relook at the hard-wiring?
Thanks for your help