Dash Cams

[Booth11]

Mine stays in the car permanently -  for me the whole point of choosing a camera that has Parking mode and is hard wired in to facilitate such a feature - is to record incidents occurring whilst it's parked.  I've had 3 lots of damage (all fixed) to my car whilst it's been parked up and one of he reasons I got both front and rear dashcams.

I think a rear cam is a must.  The hit and run incident was to the rear of the car, as was a parking scuff and if I'd had a rear dashcam both would have been recorded.

The Blackvue DR650S 2CH I have had GPS cam but have disabled the speed recording.  It has motion detection (for Parking mode) but I have that turned to a very low setting otherwise it picks up every tiny movement.  Instead I have the G-shock sensor setting set high which is the sensor that detects an impact and records it. 

I use a high capacity 128mb high speed micro SD card but mostly use the Blackvue app or cloud to view the recordings but nice to know I can download the contents of the SD card should I want to. 

All in all very glad I got a dashcam and IMO an essential piece of kit in today's driving world.

[phope]

All in all very glad I got a dashcam and IMO an essential piece of kit in today's driving world.

The truth, sadly

[Pixwix]

Thanks for the reply Booth11, I didn't get a rear camera. The whole thing was a sort of impulse purchase when I realised the garage were taking off the pillar trim to try and cure my rattle. Thought I might as well get hard wired camera fitted at the same time by the garage to save the possibility of another rattle appearing if I had that done by someone else later.
I've taken it out tonight but I do feel I probably won't bother in future as I already have to fuss a little more due to the extra security measures I use now, don't want another car disappearing into the night....but then also don't want someone smashing the window to nick dashcam....dilemma.

[Finglonga]

Stupid  question alert...do you leave dashcam in your car overnight or not..just had one fitted today and don't know whether to put it in parked mode and leave in or take out.

Mine has been sitting in my cars screen permanently, but it has a permanent mount and not a cheap cop out sucker mount as they are thief magnets due to them looking like GPS mounts. Not sure why they still sell those terrible mounts, they look like a cheap afterthought IMO.