HI all,
Due to being involved in the car accident recently (non-fault), and due to covering quite a lot miles as business travel etc. started to think about dash cam.
I need something which is:
- not too expensive but don't want any cheap cr*p;
- is good at night;
- have fairly wide angle;
- constant recording (overlapping)
- small enough to hide behind the mirror;
I need front and rear, so maybe some packages ??
What do you recommend guys ?
Any good deals out there as its Black Friday (dont get it personally but maybe there are some good offers)
Cheers,
Chris
Comments
The image quality is stunning and it ticks all the boxes you've mentioned. Day/ night.
It won't fit behind your mirror but I've used a suction mount from Day 1 -- basically the time it takes to stick it to your screen is less than 5 seconds; similar to take it off and hide it in the glove box.*
This dash cam has already saved my arse once. Worth its cost for that alone. Not the cheapest but it works day in day out.
PS I use a 32Gb card which gives you about 5 hours before overlapping.
Hope that helps.
And if I wanted a rear view one I'd just get another one of these. They're independent so the data just gets stored on the card.
*cos no one would ever look there!
It loops, has gps logging the journey, not that i ever use it, full hd, timestamps and everything.
Its good and has served me well.. but the inbuilt battery is kak. I left it attached a few days in the summer and that was enough to kill it dead. It still worked, as I have it hardwired in, but when I shut the ignition off, it would just die insantly, thus not saving the final 3 minute segment of video.. which is most likely to be the only part you’d want!
Halfords replaced it easy enough, but a year later I’m seeing signs that its internal battery is going again.. so maybe they arent the best..
So got me thinking: Dash Cam theft due to soar in coming months...!