Best Dash Cam

[Islander]

Unless the person that hit you is identified, it's still your insurance footing the bill. I have accident forgiveness on my policy and uninsured motorist. Both prevent my premiums from going up should that situation happen. Not all insurance companies, or policies are as forgiving

Good point...I should check my policy

 

[securityguy]

But...if someone rams your car and does $1k× damage...would recorded video not remove any arguments from the insurance company that someone did in fact hit you and that it wasn't your fault? In my case, Park Mode is 1/2 the reason I want to get a dash cam.

Yes, the recorded video is submissible in court and insurance companies love these things as there is no denying the video and eliminates the "he said/she said".

 

[2001gw]

correct my truck my money

but you are only here to push your own company and it appears no one else is as important as you.

based on what you have posted here I would not take your advice or buy from your company even if you gave it to me for free and it came notarized.

Securityguy installed the dash cam in my 2021 1500. HE DID NOT SELL ME THE DASH CAM. He recommended the BLACKVUE DR750X-2CH Plus. He showed me where to purchase it online and absolutely would have given me "FREE" advice on how to install it (which I am guite capable of doing) but I am 76 years old and just didn't feel like getting into it. So, I asked him to install it and we made arrangements to meet at his house and he did the complete install in about 2 hours. I can see "no wires" running anywhere. All I can see is the front camera (which is hidden from my view behind the mirror) and the rear camera. Securityguy is upfront, honest and just wants to help people.

 

[GeorgiaBoy]

Thanks my friend. What you stated has always been my intention and I greatly appreciate folks like you that have recognize that. As they say..."you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink!"

You have been NOTHING but helpful! And many, including myself, really appreciate you sharing your expert knowledge!

 

[grimreefer]

You have been NOTHING but helpful! And many, including myself, really appreciate you sharing your expert knowledge!

This.

 

[n8zcc]

I DID read the entire thread!!!
that person knocks anyone who does NOT do what they want!!

Then I'm calling you out, your chance to support your claim, since you've read the thread, give us a list of the post numbers where securityguy knocks someone.

 

[n8zcc]

Thanks my friend. What you stated has always been my intention and I greatly appreciate folks like you that have recognize that. As they say..."you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink!"

No thanks needed, you have earned every bit of recognition not only from me but many others.

I've learned from life experiences to know when to grab a tool or the checkbook. I've also learned when to accept the experience of another when wading into unknown territory. And dashcams are a big unknown when it comes to performance and lifetime. I did my due diligence and went with your experiences and installed the dashcams following the information in this thread. Everything from dashcam performance to the installation was simple because of you.

So some snotty-nosed kid comes along with a wine and wants to derate you is unreasonable and unacceptable. I've read this entire thread and I know from his comments he didn't despite his claim.

What bothers me the most is I would hate to see someone like this discourage you from your valuable contributions. There are many on the horizon that will be coming to seek dashcam advice.

 

[SnowBlaZR2]

A few months ago...I saw a drunken tourist on a scooter slam into the back of a car parked at a beach parking lot...the owner of the car was in the car with the engine running but in Park...the scooter operator then got off the ground and claimed the driver of the parked car reversed and slammed into him. I was a witness and helped the driver out of that mess.

This is a perfect example of what I meant by "to keep people honest." Before I had a dashcam, I had a guy cut me off to beat me to the turning lane to get on base, then realize traffic was stopped and lock up his brakes. I was already slowing because of the stopped traffic and hit my brakes, but still made relatively light contact. I had a steel bumper on my truck and he had an Avalanche. I won. State trooper showed up and this guy says I was tailgating him and he just stopped with normal traffic. I gave my side, and it was basically my word against his. I even pointed out the tire marks (35" KM2 MT on that truck) that showed I was in the turning lane and that he was partially in the left lane. Our insurance companies just said they'd each pay for their own customer's damage. Fine with me, because I didn't have any damage. I started researching dash cams that night.

In a parking lot, people who are careless with their doors, their carts, their kids, or whatever they have in their hands are the most likely culprits and why I get a bit of exercise when I go anywhere. A dash cam is only as good as what it can capture.

In summation, people are the worst.

 

[securityguy]

This is a perfect example of what I meant by "to keep people honest." Before I had a dashcam, I had a guy cut me off to beat me to the turning lane to get on base, then realize traffic was stopped and lock up his brakes. I was already slowing because of the stopped traffic and hit my brakes, but still made relatively light contact. I had a steel bumper on my truck and he had an Avalanche. I won. State trooper showed up and this guy says I was tailgating him and he just stopped with normal traffic. I gave my side, and it was basically my word against his. I even pointed out the tire marks (35" KM2 MT on that truck) that showed I was in the turning lane and that he was partially in the left lane. Our insurance companies just said they'd each pay for their own customer's damage. Fine with me, because I didn't have any damage. I started researching dash cams that night.

In a parking lot, people who are careless with their doors, their carts, their kids, or whatever they have in their hands are the most likely culprits and why I get a bit of exercise when I go anywhere. A dash cam is only as good as what it can capture.

In summation, people are the worst.

Amen Brother!

 

[bigdodge]

Then I'm calling you out, your chance to support your claim, since you've read the thread, give us a list of the post numbers where securityguy knocks someone.

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[Ninety-9 SE-L]

I'm just going to throw this into the wind:

I bought my first dash cam in 2015, I think it was an A118. I had just bought my Frontier and about 2 months in, a 16 year old comes whipping around a stop sign and hits me while I'm stopped. Typical scene, police come to take the report, but when insurance gets involved, the kid changed his story and said that I was in the intersection. Luckily I had pictures of the damage and all of the broken parts in the road, but I still had to threaten his insurance company with a lawsuit and from that moment on, I didn't want to chance my word against theirs.

Dash cams are cheap insurance, $30 or $300.

Over the years, I've upgraded. I went 4K with an Anker, I got ones with better night vision, I got a second one for the rear, then I simply got a 2 channel one that recorded front and rear. Each new one got better and better and I've captured a lot of good stuff. When I finally install one in my Ram, I'm probably going to enable parking mode. I see no reason I shouldn't use it, and with a voltage protection circuit, I'm not worried about a low battery.

Depending on your settings parking mode will only trigger with events. It can be a little useless if it's not angled towards the event or if the damage is so minor that you never check, but IMO, it still falls under the 'cheap insurance' category. It's better than nothing.

This is the only other crash I have to report in 7 years of dashcam ownership and 135k on the Fronty:
Link

 

[securityguy]

I'm just going to throw this into the wind:

I bought my first dash cam in 2015, I think it was an A118. I had just bought my Frontier and about 2 months in, a 16 year old comes whipping around a stop sign and hits me while I'm stopped. Typical scene, police come to take the report, but when insurance gets involved, the kid changed his story and said that I was in the intersection. Luckily I had pictures of the damage and all of the broken parts in the road, but I still had to threaten his insurance company with a lawsuit and from that moment on, I didn't want to chance my word against theirs.

Dash cams are cheap insurance, $30 or $300.

Over the years, I've upgraded. I went 4K with an Anker, I got ones with better night vision, I got a second one for the rear, then I simply got a 2 channel one that recorded front and rear. Each new one got better and better and I've captured a lot of good stuff. When I finally install one in my Ram, I'm probably going to enable parking mode. I see no reason I shouldn't use it, and with a voltage protection circuit, I'm not worried about a low battery.

Depending on your settings parking mode will only trigger with events. It can be a little useless if it's not angled towards the event or if the damage is so minor that you never check, but IMO, it still falls under the 'cheap insurance' category. It's better than nothing.

This is the only other crash I have to report in 7 years of dashcam ownership and 135k on the Fronty:
Link

Same exact thing happened to me many years ago. The person was making a left out of a side street/parking lot onto a three lane road like that with a ton of traffic which is just a bad idea. The beauty is that the footage doesn't lie and you can cover yourself with a very small dash cam investment.

 

[bombaman]

My BlueSkySea one has started finally kicking the can after baking in the Sun for a few years. The incident record button just deletes the recording instead

Supprised no-one is yet making a Dash can that can tap the reverse camera for a secondary souce (ala Tesla).

 

[Islander]

I removed the third brake light which gave me easy access to the space above the headliner. I then used a flexible fish tape which I pushed through the third brake light mounting hole to the driver's side A pillar. I attached the cable to the fish tape and pulled it through to the rear window leaving enough slack to run the cable across the front of the headliner to the the front camera. There was a lot of spare cable at the back, I coiled it up and secured it with a zip tie. There was plenty of room for the coil of spare cable above the rear end of the head liner. I used a bent bracket from The Dash Cam Store to mount the camera in the center of the rear window without interfering with the sliding center section.

I hope this provides you with the detail that you requested.

Hi Jefferyrw...Sorry I know you posted the above advice almost a year ago...but have a question for you as I am thinking about how you used fish tape to run the rear camera wire ....is it possible to do this without removing the 3rd brake light? Could you somehow get inside the headliner from inside the rear cab and then snake fish tape from there...or is it too hard to do that?....Thanks in advance!

 

[securityguy]

Hi Jefferyrw...Sorry I know you posted the above advice almost a year ago...but have a question for you as I am thinking about how you used fish tape to run the rear camera wire ....is it possible to do this without removing the 3rd brake light? Could you somehow get inside the headliner from inside the rear cab and then snake fish tape from there...or is it too hard to do that?....Thanks in advance!

You can run a fiberglass fish rod from above either the drivers side or passengers side front door by removing the weather stripping to gain access to the headliner and then gently running the fish rod to the rear along side of the pano. I can understand why folks are apprehensive about removing the CHMSL due to the water leak issues many have reported.

 

[Islander]

You can run a fiberglass fish rod from above either the drivers side or passengers side front door by removing the weather stripping to gain access to the headliner and then gently running the fish rod to the rear along side of the pano. I can understand why folks are apprehensive about removing the CHMSL due to the water leak issues many have reported.

Ah OK!...thank you again for your help ...I will try that when I get the gear. Yeah a bit apprehensive of messing with that light for sure lol

 

[Ninety-9 SE-L]

Aw yea. Truck hit the dealer on the 17th, and this hit my mailbox on the 18th:

 

[securityguy]

Aw yea. Truck hit the dealer on the 17th, and this hit my mailbox on the 18th:

Nice...let us know your thoughts after install. It will be the first A139 I believe on the forum. If you need any help, or have questions, feel free to PM me and I'll share my cell with you.

 

[Ninety-9 SE-L]

Nice...let us know your thoughts after install. It will be the first A139 I believe on the forum. If you need any help, or have questions, feel free to PM me and I'll share my cell with you.

I already have the A129 Duo Pro in my Frontier and I just took an A129 Duo Pro out of the CX-5 before I sold it. It's about the 3rd or 4th generation of dash cams I've used over the last 7 years. I wanted to have the 3-channel unit for my new Ram

No complaints about the picture or clarity. I have a polarizing filter on it.
I like that the front and rear are in separate videos but with the same timestamp and file gap.
Pretty discrete for permanent mounting.
I love the Bluetooth remote control that streamlines saving videos.

My 4th compilation is almost exclusively taken from the A129s:
Video Link

 

[Islander]

I already have the A129 Duo Pro in my Frontier and I just took an A129 Duo Pro out of the CX-5 before I sold it. It's about the 3rd or 4th generation of dash cams I've used over the last 7 years. I wanted to have the 3-channel unit for my new Ram

No complaints about the picture or clarity. I have a polarizing filter on it.
I like that the front and rear are in separate videos but with the same timestamp and file gap.
Pretty discrete for permanent mounting.
I love the Bluetooth remote control that streamlines saving videos.

My 4th compilation is almost exclusively taken from the A129s:
Video Link

I'm new to dashcam tech...would an interior IR camera like the one in your Viofo also turn on and record in Parking Mode if an exterior Motion/Impact is detected? Just wondering if it would capture interior video of someone breaking into a parked car.