Cheap EBay suction cup mount FTW!

leebutts

leebutts

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First Name
Lee
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2001 Golf GTI
Grabbed a ~$40 camera mount off EBay - it seems to hand on pretty good!

...and just to keep Tim(ygoslo) happy, there's heaps of star wipes :D


cheers

Lee
 
Search ebay for "suction cup camera mount" and you will find a fair few.

LEe did you stick that ot the outside of your car? Cheap camera?
 
Is that the same one as I borrowed off Christian on the last cruise?
 
They hang on pretty good. My vid's were done with the camera mounted on the outside of the drivers side door about half way down. I looped the shoulder strap over the side mirror in case the the mount gave way. It held on well enough, more so than the camera which turned itself off, to protect the hard drive, whilst driving down a nice long back street, which was very rough. I was doing about ???km/per hour at the time.

My biggest problem was trying to mount it up on the front inside window facing forward. I eventual mounted it upside down and flipped the video over so it was right side up.
 
Peter_D said:
My biggest problem was trying to mount it up on the front inside window facing forward. I eventual mounted it upside down and flipped the video over so it was right side up.
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Same problem here (when using Christians), I'm looking into a different one for about $70 that might fix that.
 
Man, what an awesome video.
I love the sound of the spool up on that clip - it's so clear and audible.

When you mounted it at the front, did you have the camera sitting in one of those boxes that help muffle the wind noise? Because there's hardly any wind noise on your video at all!

PS: Love the grumble of your exhaust - sounds sweet :D
 
dimi_108 said:
When you mounted it at the front, did you have the camera sitting in one of those boxes that help muffle the wind noise? Because there's hardly any wind noise on your video at all!
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No, it was sitting on the front bumper right in front of the mitsi logo. It must have some kind of wind filter that works when the camera is horizontal but not vertical (like when it was hanging off the side)

cheers

Lee
 
naughtika said:
at least the $30 ones work right?!
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Yours works really good, I'm considering buying one myself. I'm just looking into if I can get one that will mount on the front windscreen the right way up without having to angle back with the glass. It might be that such a product does not exist.

If you haven't seen the footage from the Cruise, apart from some poor quality footage and alot of mucking about with mounting, I'm really happy with how it came out.
 
so busted .. ran a clearly yellow light and speeding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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