Dash cam advice

Alanp

I had a mi witness cam, it failed a week before we were due to go on holiday to Cornwall, they no longer seem to be in business so I had a nextbase 522 front and rear cam installed by Halfords, the young lad who installed it made a very good job, I also had it hard wired, it performed ok, but initially it ran hot, I mean VERY hot, so much so I thought it was going to melt, but if you turn off the screen it runs cooler , picture quality was ok, lots of help on the dash cam talk forum , there’s no such thing as the perfect dash cam they all have their little foibles, I now run a blackvue 900s front and rear dash cam and am very pleased with it but it’s very expensive but no fault with the picture quality ( better if you download it to your phone) , I’d recommend having front and rear cameras, as well as having it hardwired which ever cam you go for... 

VFR

Checkout DDPai dash cams, very good IMO

spacey2012

As said above, be aware that in the event of any motoring offence, the police will seize the camera as evidence under PACE and use the contents against you.
They can calculate speed from FPS and distance.

They currently get far more people in to trouble than out of it.

Car_54

spacey2012 said:

As said above, be aware that in the event of any motoring offence, the police will seize the camera as evidence under PACE and use the contents against you.
They can calculate speed from FPS and distance.

They currently get far more people in to trouble than out of it.

I think you mean "might" rather than "will". Can you provide examples of it actually happening?

[Deleted User]

Serves them right for driving like idiots if their own dash cams get them into trouble. 

egyptiancotton

I thought to resurrect this thread than to start a new one. Halfords have the 522GW front & rear bundle on offer for £179 (or £234 fitted), which I'm tempted to go for. What are people's experiences with this dash cam?

oh_really

I spend most of my day on the road, all types from motorways, arterial roads and inner city. I have a nextbase recording to the front and a stand alone smartwitness mounted on the rear screen.

The nextbase camera is good, however I have found on a couple of occasions it powers on but isn't recording, needs a wee bit of faffing to encourage it to record.

The rear facing one captures some scary moments of idiots flying towards me at points when I'm stationary (had one zoomer last week on Glasgow), one wonders how so many other drivers get away with holding a license (if indeed they ever held one) if what I'm recording is indicative across the UK.

Given the traveling I do and the incidents I capture I'm considering uploading them to a web channel.

Catherine_91

I bought one on Amazon for about £20 in 2019. The only thing I've really used it for was to show my insurer the footage of a scrape I had in a car park. Even if you never have an accident yourself, it could provide witness footage for someone else's accident!

EssexExile

A recent incident my rear Mobius caught:
https://youtu.be/ScS5mXwJ5LA

oh_really

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Deleted_User said:

Another idiot motorcycle rider. 

So the guy reversing in 4x4 was not at fault ?

Only be being on the road at the same time as an idiot. Would the motorcyclist have attempted this manoeuvre if he were driving a car, I doubt it. On a bike, the rider will always come off second best, he wont see many more birthdays doing this.