Dash cams

[prestonchipfryer]

Does anybody here use a dashcam? The small camera mounted on a car windscreen to record journeys? If so what would you recommend? Thanks.

[Pigmy Pony]

'Which' magazine's Best Buys tend to be made by NextBase. We have one, also a 'Best Buy', model 312GW (I've just been to the car to check). I bought it for the missus for her birthday a couple of years ago, and she reckons it's great. I think I paid about £90 for it.

With the increasing reliance upon traffic cameras to 'police' the roads, with a corresponding reduction in actual police, these dash cams are our only reals defence against knobhead drivers.

[Parcelmonkey]

Does anybody here use a dashcam? The small camera mounted on a car windscreen to record journeys? If so what would you recommend? Thanks.

Yes a Nextbase because they work well. I bought the 2 camera front & rear one. Get a large SD card and tell your insurance company and you'll likely get a discount which pretty much pays for itself in a couple of years.

Without one I'd be looking at a best case scenario of 50/50 knock for knock and a slap on the wrists [long story] and because I owned one; with the evidence the police had at the roadside I was a non fault winner.

Wouldn't drive without one now as far too many dickheads on the road. Albeit I'm on the road a lot!

Police tend to be reliant on video evidence these days... (lazy) so it will help in any insurance cases enormously if you are not at fault.
You can get it professionally and discretely hard wired by high street fitters for under £30 as well which hides that wire hanging down in your windscreen.

[walpurgis]

I find dashcams a bit of a pain. You can't leave one on show if you're away from the car, as it's an invtation for somebody to break in, which means you have to either take it with you or find space to stash it out of sight. The only time my cars get dinged is when they're parked up anyway.

[GrahamS]

Does anyone use one with a "Park" feature, which uses motion sensor to protect the car while parked? We have a lot of vandalism going on in our area and I'm thinking of getting a dash-cam with this feature.

[aquapiranha]

I have a Nextbase 312G and it has saved my bacon on a couple of occasions, for example when a 'lady' rolled backwards into me at a set of lights and then proceeded to accuse me of driving into the back of her. Despite me telling her several times that I had it all on camera she was about to call the police when a bystander who had seen the whole thing told her what he had seen and she just got back in the car and was away, no apology!
I would recommend everyone has one, I bought it as I drive over 40k miles per year.

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[walpurgis]

I drive over 40k miles per year

More than ten times my mileage. Had my car four years and up to 15k miles now and my ten year old blke has 4k on. :)

[aquapiranha]

More than ten times my mileage. Had my car four years and up to 15k miles now and my ten year old blke has 4k on. :)[emoji16] the DATS may arrive tomorrow...

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[walpurgis]

[emoji16] the DATS may arrive tomorrow...

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Digital Action Tracking System?

[aquapiranha]

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Digital Action Tracking System?Sorry posted on the wrong place! It is a speaker analysis device for measuring TS parameters btw... [emoji16]

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[Minstrel SE]

They are pretty much becoming essential with an increased amount of cars on the road.

With the amount of roadrage and bad driving out there we should all be filming each other and it may actually calm some of the idiots down if they know virtually every car is filming.

They should be built in as standard with an option to turn it off if it is my fault :)

[prestonchipfryer]

They are pretty much becoming essential with an increased amount of cars on the road.

With the amount of roadrage and bad driving out there we should all be filming each other and it may actually calm some of the idiots down if they know virtually every car is filming.

They should be built in as standard with an option to turn it off if it is my fault :)

I think that may be the way forwards. There are so many poor drivers nowadays. It's feckin' unbelievable what some of them get up to behind the wheel.

Makes no difference it seems as to the type of vehicle being driven either from car to HGV I have seen some truly atrocious manoeuvres.

On the dual carriageway just last week I was overtaken, at a speed in excess of 70 mph (it had to be as I was on cruise set to 70 mph) by a van driver who then decided to take the slip road exit immediately. Bloody stupid and extremely dangerous as he had to cut right across in front of me.

This sort of driving is why I feel the need for a dashcam. :)