[Privatedoc]

So many numpties cut you up every day on the roads that I was thinking of installing a dash-cam

There seems to be loads available, from bloody awful to expensive and good

Has anyone any experience of these? been looking at 2 in particular, the transcend Drive-Pro 200 (cheap and ok) and the Roadhawk HD (expensive and fully featured)

with my mileage of 25k+ miles a year, thought it might be a good thing to record everything on a loop




open to all advice, recomendations etc

cheers

PD

 

[Supermegamonkee]

I have the giz pro unit in my car. Power is fed down the internal rubber seal and then goes into the 12v. At some point I will get it hard wired but this work fine. As soon as you switch the car on it starts recording and when you switch off it stops. Film is stored on a micro sd card and will overwrite old footage when full. For £50 it's good value. I don't rate the LCD screen on it, but it's not needed. It's video footage is good for the price.

 

[Supermegamonkee]

http://www.gizpro.co.uk/in-car-camera/dp-r23-hd-model.html

 

[Supermegamonkee]

That transcend Unit looks good. Might look at it for the mrs car

 

[OrpheusRocker]

I just got one of these
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111084581517?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649


and it seems to work pretty well. Has a rechargeable battery meaning no cables. Battery last a couple of hours or so. Takes reasonable video. Comes with a host of cables to connect to computer or TV. The 1080p resolution sold it for me.

 

[Miserable Git]

A 21st Century black box for cars; and an equally double edged sword.

 

[Privatedoc]

Ok Folks, ordered the transcend drivepro 200 , will report on how good it is.

dashcam

 

[Supermegamonkee]

Ok Folks, ordered the transcend drivepro 200 , will report on how good it is.

dashcam

It's excellent, got mine fitted yesterday. Mrs had my old one

 

[Privatedoc]

arrived this morning...this really is an excellent bit of kit, video quality is fantastic and so easy to use, esp with the ios app.....great value for money £87 at amazon


highly recommended !

 

[Supermegamonkee]

Bit bigger than my old one, but a lot easier to remove from the car.

 

[grooveclip]

How did you get the power to the camera? I'm currently stuck with it looking like this:

 

[Supermegamonkee]

Go the other way and use the rubber to hide the cable

 

[grooveclip]

Is the trim different on the other side? Will have to look tomorrow.
I was concerned about the cable ending up near the pedal's if I routed it the other way, is there a panel I can hide the cable behind on the drivers side?

 

[Supermegamonkee]

The rubber that's under the pillar, that's where I have run mine.

 

[shakotanVIP]

I have this in my car, it has the bonus of having two cameras, once placed in the rear window, so it records both to the front and rear at the same time.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HD-1080P-In-Car-Vehicle-Dual-Lens-Dashboard-Camera-Video-Recorder-DVR-CAM-/351035675883?pt=UK_In_Car_Technology&hash=item51bb5b54eb