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Sept 30, 2016 11:02:25 GMT
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Thinking of buying one. They range for £10 up so what's the difference? Anyone got one?
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taurus
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Sept 30, 2016 11:25:11 GMT
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I had a cheap one just to try them out, it lasted a few months but then died. Quality wasn't good.
I then bought a Mio MiVue which has been excellent. I know there on folks who are against them because of the self-righteous brigade who delight in playing keyboard cops - but I've found mine useful when there's been an incident as it resolves any issue who did what. The last time mine paid for itself was a taxi that changed lanes without indicating or looking and side-swiped me. As soon as I pointed to the dashcam the driver stopped being a dick and dealt with it.
Buy a decent one that has good picture quality and has GPS. The only gripe I have is that the MiVue lifetime updates seem to have stopped.
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rude
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Sept 30, 2016 16:32:32 GMT
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I've been quite happy with the transcend £100 model. Nice and small so doesn't stick out like a sore thumb. The 'emergency recording ' doesn't like my lows and goes off all the time, so I've turned that off, never used the WiFi thing on it and it doesn't have GPS which you'd probably want it you're road policing.
I got mine for a bit of a laugh as I'm astounded by other drivers stupidity and get off on watching things like that but it did prove itself more than a few times by recording kamikaze cyclists who had left their brains in the toilet. There's a lot and it's a shame the real cyclists get thrown in the same box, but that's another debate.
I also have my best pals funeral procession recorded, that was accidental but quite novel to have.
I also accidentally caught the time a rogue 'live' wire touched the metal behind the dash on a Bedford truck I was working on and proceeded to melt half the wiring loom in a hideous plume of toxic smoke.
Unfortunately I can't be arsed clipping it in and attaching the cable every day even though it's properly wired in to the car, so it just sits in a bag doing nothing. I have plans to convert it's use to CCTV which will probably never happen.
Maybe I should use it properly again, you never know when it might save your skin!
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I've got cam front and rear both hardwired in so they come one with the ignition, they are Halfords ones can't remember the model but cost about £80 each and have a Memory card that records for 4 hours on a loop.
Luckily I've not had cause to view the footage but did recently just to check it was recording okay. No GPS as I didn't see the point of paying the extra for that, all it need to do is record whats happening.
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BT
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My work vehicle has a halfords special. Again wired into the fuse box so it always comes on and it is very handy. This one we have has GPS for location and speed as well as a front and rear camera. Cost around £300 from what o remember.
I keep meaning to get one but am struggling with what to go for. I do have a cheaper one, but unfortunately at night you may as well not bother.
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ianmk2
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Got two, a Nextbase 512 in the front and a Nextbase 312GW in the back. The 512 is heinously expensive but the quality is outstanding, the 312GW is perfectly adequate and much better value. Both have GPS.
Not interested in road policing, or posting vids of crappy driving on facebook for likes, but in the event someone goes into me or some cash for crash knobend tries it on, I want the best chance possible of nailing them to the wall. No "50/50" here tyvm.
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Oct 10, 2016 21:20:05 GMT
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Like ianmk2 I have no interest in posting on FB or youtube they are there for my own protection, when a workmte saw mine he said 'oh you are on them them are you?' implying that I a wannabe traffic cop so I told him why I had them, a month later someone hit hic car and drove off before he could get the reg number and he wasn't even sure what car it is and had to pay himself for the damage, the cost was far more than the cost of a dashcam
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Last Edit: Oct 14, 2016 22:45:14 GMT by Deleted
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Oct 11, 2016 15:31:36 GMT
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Cheers ianmk2 - know which one(s) I'm going for. IdiotUKDriversExposed has a flash sale on right now if it helps anyone, shop available here |
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ianmk2
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Oct 11, 2016 15:54:18 GMT
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If its the 312GW then its a good choice, I got mine from ebay off this listing - item no. 291856776120
I've bought off this seller a couple of times and they're spot on (its not me, honest!)
Makes it roughly the same price as IdiotUKDrivers sale, but you can combine it with other items and get discount on them, I got a case and a hardwire kit and it came to about £100 in total.
The hardwire kit is great and dead easy to fit, the only word of caution is if you have a car with DAB, then fitting the 312GW in the back did kill the DAB signal. I don't know why, it just cuts out as soon as you plug the powered mount in. Using the ferrite core supplied in the hardwire kit and plugging the power directly into the dashcam rather than the mount seems to have resolved it, but it means you have to plug/unplug it every time you take it in/out of the car. Its no hardship really. If you look online it seems to be quite a common problem with all dashcams, not just nextbase.
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ianmk2
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Oct 11, 2016 16:02:15 GMT
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Also...and I've only had the rear one a couple of weeks so evidence is only anecdotal, but since having the 312 in the back, incidence of tailgating do seem to have dropped.
I'm sure most people that have driven on a road recently have witnessed the fact you can't go 2 miles without some impatient mouth-breather right up your trumpet, well, now quite often i'll see them approach and adopt the standard half cars length following distance with the DRL's burning my retinas out, but then all of a sudden they'll drop back considerably and stay there.
In my mind it means they have seen the cam and don't want to be the star of the next fb sensation, or they might think I'm a crash for cash scammer and have the cam there for evidence, or it might be nothing to do with it, either way if it carries on then good.
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