Dash cam recommendations

[Daemo]

Can anyone recommend a budget dash cam, something you have personal experience with, possibly up to £50 ish, i want to do all 3 cars and cant spend hundreds... Done a search on here but new stuff comes out all the time so i am hoping someone has something reasonable they are happy with.

Also want a reversing cam for the patrol.

 

[AlexD333]

nextbase 302G

not the cheapest but available at your nearest maplins and a name to a face if it goes wrong, 1 years warranty ect.

also the software is ace, has GPS, speed, location and flux of speed and braking ect. :thumb2

the mrs camera was a £30 quid jobbie on Fleabay, quality is just as good to be fair... :thumb2 but good luck getting that refunded to China...

 

[clivvy]

I've recently bought the one linked below. Only had it couple of weeks so cant really comment on longevity but its a superb little camera. For your money you get up to 1296p resolution, 30FPs I believe. You get GPS and software to play back video plus mapping. Its very small - mine is mounted in front of the rear view mirror. Its removable from the holder without unplugging the USB - I've got USB ports in my roof light control box so very tidy.

Its simple to use, but has a lot of nice features such as gsensor, motion etc. What I will say is with regards budget, try to avoid "Novatek" chipsets. Ive tried a lot of cameras as we sell them at work, and every novatek has been really poor. Go for Ambarella, every one has been superb. For example, when playing back footage, novatek chipsets are blurred, no matter the resolution or framerate. The Ambarellas are sharp - so if you pause the video of an oncoming car, 9 times out of 10 you can read the number plate

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171882252604?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

[Sweety]

After watching loads of video's & asking lots of Q's I settled on a Next Base 402G & been pleased with it:thumbs

 

[AlexD333]

two votes from the nextbase range :naughty

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

After watching loads of video's & asking lots of Q's I settled on a Next Base 402G & been pleased with it:thumbs

We now have 2 of the 402G's one for each car.

We bought a cheap one for the caravan, but while it looks almost identical to the Nextbase one, the quality of the picture is not even close. You would struggle to get a reg number from the cheap one, even in perfect day light.

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[don simon]

nextbase 302G

not the cheapest but available at your nearest maplins and a name to a face if it goes wrong, 1 years warranty ect.

also the software is ace, has GPS, speed, location and flux of speed and braking ect. :thumb2

the mrs camera was a £30 quid jobbie on Fleabay, quality is just as good to be fair... :thumb2 but good luck getting that refunded to China...

Surely two year, Shirley?

 

[Blocky10]

Don't bother with this.
Bought in April and already useless [emoji15] that'll teach me.....
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00P42S4FW?vs=1&vs=1

Ian

 

[Sweety]

We bought a cheap one for the caravan

We know you love your T2 but I think filming the rear of it as you drive along is taking things a bit far:lol

 

[DAN@ADRIAN FLUX]

Hi,
Just to let you know that a number of our insurance schemes do offer premium discounts for a wide range of approved in-car cameras.
Regards,
Dan.

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

We know you love your T2 but I think filming the rear of it as you drive along is taking things a bit far[emoji38]

LOL... it films out the back window just in case the lady who tried to ruin our holiday a couple of years ago, should try again...

I have a rear veiw camera on the caravan, up on the roof line, so about 8ft from the ground, which dispays on the monitor in the car and in all seriousness you would be scared silly if you saw close up some of the things people do behind the caravan, I once saw a lorry driver laying back with his feet up on the steering wheel, and another reading a news paper...

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[macabethiel]

Don't waste your money spend the money on NCB protection instead !

 

[AlexD333]

Don't waste your money spend the money on NCB protection instead !

Terrible idea, camera is indefinite proof of accident. :thumb2

 

[macabethiel]

Terrible idea, camera is indefinite proof of accident. :thumb2

So how will a camera help if they have no insurance ?

Odds are when several years down the line you need the footage it will have failed.

In our family in 50 years of accidents we have only had 4 accidents between us so a dash cam would have to work for a long long time !!

 

[briggie]

my dash cam ( £18 on fleabay ) has paid for itself many times over , after a doctor smashed into my drivers door mirror at speed and knocked it off , he was going far too fast to get his reg number and he didn't stop , but after a visit from mr plod he confirmed the details and I have been paid for the damage

 

[macabethiel]

Dash Cams

my dash cam ( £18 on fleabay ) has paid for itself many times over , after a doctor smashed into my drivers door mirror at speed and knocked it off , he was going far too fast to get his reg number and he didn't stop , but after a visit from mr plod he confirmed the details and I have been paid for the damage

Nice result for you but this is just anecdotal evidence - one Swallow does not make a Summer Briggie.

Many years ago when I lived in a flat in Derby I found my headlight had been smashed whilst parked outside my flat. The only evidence I had was a small sliver of red rear light held in my broken headlamp. I replaced the headlamp myself and put it down to "One of those things".
About a month later as I was parking my Mini further down the street my headlight caught the reflection of the grazed rear light of a 105E Anglia that had L plates displayed. I knocked on a couple of doors to find the owner and he admitted causing the damage and paid for the new lamp. No dash cam in those days ! Of course this is just anecdotal evidence so can be discounted. lol

 

[don simon]

No dash cam in those days ! Of course this is just anecdotal evidence so can be discounted. lol

I think things have changed quite considerably from those days. the standard seems to be that you deny everything, even in the face of evidence, then shout as loudly as you can in order to blame the victim.
so, in your example I'd be saying that you'd parked your car in a dangerous place and you'll be hearing from my solicitor (I've seen their adverts on daytime tellly) in order for me to claim damages and injury and phsycological trauma...

I have a huge internal fight regarding dashcams. We shouldn't need them, full stop!
But while we have them, the Police don't have to waste scant resources on minor traffic offences, but equally there are too many on road vigilantes who are happy to wave a camera in your face in order to prove something....
They're not calibrated, something we demand that speed cameras are.
But as they become more common place I can't help thinking that fire should be fought with fire. Sad.

 

[macabethiel]

I think things have changed quite considerably from those days. the standard seems to be that you deny everything, even in the face of evidence, then shout as loudly as you can in order to blame the victim.
so, in your example I'd be saying that you'd parked your car in a dangerous place and you'll be hearing from my solicitor (I've seen their adverts on daytime tellly) in order for me to claim damages and injury and phsycological trauma...

I have a huge internal fight regarding dashcams. We shouldn't need them, full stop!
But while we have them, the Police don't have to waste scant resources on minor traffic offences, but equally there are too many on road vigilantes who are happy to wave a camera in your face in order to prove something....
They're not calibrated, something we demand that speed cameras are.
But as they become more common place I can't help thinking that fire should be fought with fire. Sad.

Sadly what you say is true !

 

[emjaybee]

I've kept out of this discussion so far...

...okay, now for my two pence worth!

I drive a large white Transit van daily. It is my vehicle, not a "Company Vehicle", I do property maintenance.

It is getting to the point that on a daily basis, someone does something really stupid around me:

Overtaking on a blind bend/hill,

Cutting in just as I get to a junction/roundabout,

Texting on their phone,

Rifling through their glovebox,

you get the picture.

As I said, this is getting more common. My gut feeling is that sooner or later , one of these turnips is going to doing something that is going to result in damage to my van or something similar which will cost me time and therefore money. I don't get paid if I don't work.

I do have protected NCB, but that doesn't mean my premiums won't go up if the insurance company can't prove it wasn't my fault. If having a dash cam can stop my premium going up and enable me to recover my policy excess, then so much the better. It also may mean that I can recover lost income if I am off the road, or injured.

I don't really want to go down this road, but with the overall standard of driver ability plummeting like VW shares I feel that I may have to get one.

 

[Daemo]

my main reason for wanting one is the crash for cash scammers I am constantly hearing about, I just prefer the scum to get caught out by having a camera and evidence, I too agree we shouldn't need one and after being in new Zealand for 10 years it was a total shock to me, we didn't need anything like that there but then again certain categories of people are not allowed to just walk in and do as they like with no consequence.
I guess its just moving with the times and just how it is now, no point remembering how it used to be, its how it is now that counts and safe guarding as much as you can...