Hi,

Does anyone with a 65 plate Focus onwards have any advice on the best place to put a Nextbase 512GW? Behind the rear view mirror is a pretty bulky black casing which means it cannot go behind the rear view mirror itself. I just have it at the bottom of the casing at the moment, but looking to get it hard wired and don't really want it in that location.

I tried to the left of the casing but you get a section of it when the dash cam is recording.

Any pics of where you guys have yours placed would be great.

Cheers

I don't have a new focus but this might help.

https://www.briandorey.com/post/nextbase-512g-low-profile-mount-mod-for-ford-focus

The 512GW is a particularly bulky model and I had trouble mounting my 412GW, which is the same size, in my Mk3. It looks to be impossible to meet the criteria of not intruding more than 4cm into the wiper swept area. I had it tucked as far as possible behind the mirror using the supplied self-adhesive mount, which is a lot less bulky than the suction mount, but it then obstructed the auto-dimming sensor. I now have it to the left of the mirror using the suction mount. I'm just living with the auto-wiper/autolamps sensor casing intruding into the image. There's no way you can position the cam to avoid this without intruding a long way into the swept area. I took the precaution of removing the cam from its mount before the MOT to avoid a fail on this requirement.

The other problem I have is that the mount doesn't provide enough adjustment to cope with the extreme rake of the Mk3 windscreen. It just about gets away with it due to the wide-angle optics but I'd prefer to have it angled a bit further down to exclude more of the sky. I contacted Nextbase about this but they weren't able to offer any alternative mount.

I had a dashcam which was a similar shape to the 512 and ditched it in favour of a "wedge" cam. It's much more discreet (less likely to be spotted and stolen) and is easier to mount with all the other crap in the way around the rear view mirror.