Car Dashcam recommendations ?

[Arjimlad]

I run cameras front & rear on my bike but now need one for the car after a BMW shoved our car onto the pavement to get out of its way when coming round a bend on the wrong side of the road, and an Audi smashed our wing mirror in similar circumstances, all in the last 7 days.

Any recommendations ? There seem to be a lot out there with loads of good reviews for £25 or so...

Thanks !

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Also interested, particularly to install in daughters car, whilst she's on 'P' plates

 

[Adam4868]

Nextbase do some decent dashcams.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I use a Nextbase 212, the base model and it has been faultless. It cost £70, there are various models up the range with the facility for an additional rear camera if you want to fit one.

Avoid cheap Chinese crap from ebay, despite their claims to be HD the video quality on a lot of them is poor. The cameras record three or five minute sectors at a time. when they get to the limit of their storage they delete each of the oldest sectors in turn. The transition from one recording sector to the next on the Nextbase is seamless, when you get to the end of each three minute sector the next begins exactly where the previous one ended. On many of the poorer cams there is as much as a ten or fifteen second gap with no footage, and sod's law being what it is that will be just when you needed it.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I have a Nexbase something or other. Decent value and ok software. Won’t necessarily repel idiots driving German engineered cars though.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

As above nextbase, just get the hardwire kit and fit + forget

 

[Arjimlad]

I have a Nexbase something or other. Decent value and ok software. Won’t necessarily repel idiots driving German engineered cars though.

We're baffled at a bumper scrape from our son driving in the BMW incident, and it would help my wife to see she was properly on her own side of the road for the Audi incident. We'd already thought to get one for his driving. The Nextbase 212 looks a good bet & has been ordered.

 

[PeteXXX]

I used an old contract phone (Sony Xperia) and an app, Daily Road Voyager from the android Playstore. It cost £2.50 if memory serves me correctly.
I now have a Nextbase that I have to move from truck to truck every shift.
The cheaper cams are reasonable during daylight, but poor quality at dusk and at low light levels..

 

[PeteXXX]

@User9609 that time lapse function is a handy feature. I'll see if my Nextbase has it

 

[Jody]

Any recommendations ? There seem to be a lot out there with loads of good reviews for £25 or so...

Thanks !

I would spend a little more having tried a few around the £25 mark. They all seemed to suffer software malfunctions and were no good within months of purchase. As others have said the Nextbase are a good budget camera. Up to now its been trouble free, fit and forget.

 

[spen666]

I use a Nextbase 212, the base model and it has been faultless. It cost £70, there are various models up the range with the facility for an additional rear camera if you want to fit one.

Avoid cheap Chinese crap from ebay, despite their claims to be HD the video quality on a lot of them is poor. The cameras record three or five minute sectors at a time. when they get to the limit of their storage they delete each of the oldest sectors in turn. The transition from one recording sector to the next on the Nextbase is seamless, when you get to the end of each three minute sector the next begins exactly where the previous one ended. On many of the poorer cams there is as much as a ten or fifteen second gap with no footage, and sod's law being what it is that will be just when you needed it.

This post is sponsored by Nextbase

 

[glasgowcyclist]

For some thorough testing and honest (unsponsored) reviews, go to http://www.techmoan.com/what-is-the-best-dashcam/ .

 

[Drago]

I got a cheap Chinese one rear facing, a Nextbase front facing. The rear one is fine, no gaps between segments, very high quality picture, good image at night. I don't think it was even a tenner. It's c.2 years old now, still working perfectly.

 

[night cycler]

If you can read a review on one it is a big help. I got the mobius 2 and it has a good review on YT by techmoan. Great for the bike. Will take a super capacitor in place of the battery if you want it for the car.

Not all Chinese stuff is bad.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfFBCuzoG-U