Dashcams!

I have been entertaining an idea of providing a fake flashing camera near the third brake light for tailgaters

Seriously though, agreed. I should get one going but would like to know what it takes to get hardwires in. The one I bought from Frys a long time ago did not belong in the 12v receptacle
 
Trunk Monkey said:
Who has one (or more)?
Brand recommendations?
Any cool videos or stories to share about them?
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Use your old cell phone sitting in that junk drawer and save yourself $100....

I have been wanting to get one after watching the videos or the nut job drivers in India and Russia.... it happens here too. My wife said no, "you don't need one", but I still want one. I was looking at the cheaper brands but found that the more expensive brands have more amenities, better picture, may come with both front and rear (to me is a must) and other neat stuff.

PS: I just looked in my Amazon account because I had several cameras I was saving for review and unfortunately, I wiped my "saved" items out a while back. Ugh.
 
I don't have one but I've also been casually shopping them for a few years now. They're never quite high enough priority for me to put them at the top of my shopping list, which I know is a sense of complacency that I should get over.

Anyway, Viofo if you want something affordable with good video quality.

Thinkware or BlackVue if you want to go with premium 2-channel (front and rear) 4K options with Wi-Fi, app control, and optional accessories like auxiliary power and idle battery drain cutoff. I've been thinking of one of these in a 2K/1440p resolution.

At one point before I understood dashcams better, I was wondering whether there was some kind of custom multi-channel front-facing setup you could put together to use as a track cam, but realistically for that, just get a GoPro or other action camera and mount it to your bumper when you need/want it. We have a tendency to believe that we'll start capturing all kinds of interesting things once we have cameras running, but the vast majority of the footage you'll collect is utterly boring and not worth keeping.
 
I have the Garmin DC47 and love it. They have new models out that are just as great. The Mini does everything you need. If you want a screen on the camera, get the cheapest one with a screen. All the new ones have polarized lenses.

I have an OBD2 dongle to power it in each car and just move it from car to car since it uses a magnet mount. I've got a 128gb SD card in the camera.

The Garmin Drive app is seamless and works perfectly. It saves G-force events and allows you to timelapse-retrieve unsaved events through your phone via Wi-Fi Direct.

If you have a hotspot in the car or park in range of wifi, it'll upload your clips to the cloud for 24h for free. It's not needed though.

Don't waste your time or money on anything else.
 
With the Garmins, you can put one in the front and one in the rear windows. You can hook two cameras into one OBD2 dongle and they sell extended USB cables to reach the rear window. They sync via the Drive app and if one is triggered then the other will too. The OBD2 dongle also hasa parking sentry mode that does not kill the battery. Works great on college campus parking lots.

On my Edge (company vehicle) I have one in the windshield and one in the rear window. Works flawlessly.
 
Kurt K said:
I've been shopping for a very long time too. I do personally know two people who's kids were saved blame in accidents due to a dash cam. I will have one installed in my kid's car before he goes to college this fall.
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Excellent idea. It's hard for kids to describe what happened when faced up against authorities. I wish I would have had one when I was a teenager.
 
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