I feel that running my 70mai dashcam wire over the airbag in the A-pillar would be a concern.
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I recently bought the 70mai A810 dashcam for my Jeep Compass Model S (AT) 2022 and in my research to route the wires for the front dashcam, I found a few posts where the A-pillar has a part or whole of the airbag in some cars. This forced me to inspect the A-pillar. On pulling the top of the A-pillar out to peek, I could see that the airbag does come partly down and any wire across will run on top of the airbag.
I am not 100% sure but running the wire across does look like a concern. My plan was to remove the A-pillar cover entirely but not knowing if I was doing it correctly, I could not gather the courage to pull it out. You can run the wire in the existing wire housing if you can manage to remove the entire cover (I could see the clips).
Next, I removed two covers from the side of the dash as mentioned at 2:10 of this video.
Next, I pushed the cable down the A-Pillar first from the USB C side of the wire to check if it went through which it did, and then from the USB A side.
Then you can internally route it from below the steering column to the front center console. Extra wire can be stored behind the long panel on the side of the dash. I have yet not started with the rear dashcam installation.
I had also tried getting the wire from behind the Airbag and then to the rubber beading but that created a gap in the cover and also I felt that the rubber was not the best place to route the wire through.
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