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The usb supply power lead/cig lighter fitting is approx 3.4m long, I'm going to cut it and connect to a switched live feed on my fusebox so it starts filming when my ignition is switched on.
Don't forget about the whole 12v down to 5v thing (I'm sure you haven't, but I wouldn't want you to fry your cam)going to cut it and connect to a switched live feed on my fusebox so it starts filming when my ignition is switched on.
I have a 5v feed out of a separate 12v - 5v feed into fuse box as I've previously wired in two usb sockets for my iPhone & stuff and a socket in the rear of the van for recharging stuff, I'll take my live feed from that as the supply is rated at 8000 mAh or thereabouts.
I think the majority of drivers should have dash cams..and volcano insurance.
Not for me, unless I was doing silly miles professionally or had a habit of close misses.
S.Manchester drivers? Don't drive in Trafford park, full of commuters in a rush to get out of Manchester!
Easy to tuck wires behind trim panels. Airbags WILL NOT go off unless you apply a voltage to the connectors. The risk is (in theory) that this could be a static charge from your clothes. But only if you unplug and handle it. There is zero risk tucking wires behind panels that may also have airbags somewhere nearby.
Whilst I do agree with you, I would caution that manufacturers often advise against this, presumably because they perceive a risk of wires getting tangled up in airbags as they deploy. My handsfree kit is mounted with the wires tucked into the A pillar, though. I suspect it's fine unless you go shoving a few yards of excess wire in there.
Just wondering, could you not take a feed from the courtesy lights? Would save removing A pillar trim in many cars.
Its ok fitting wires in the side pillars, just dont run the wire over the top of the air curtains or it will inhibit there operation when needed.
My cam turned up today and it seems ok (better than nothing). I don't think I will use the rear cam. I need to purchase one of those piggy back cables to hard wire it in.
There's a roundabout near my work that the cash for crash artists hang out at, this is why I've got one.
flying ox, you linked to [url= http://www.ebay.com/itm/171869526148?rmvSB=true ]this camera[/url] on page one as it has a reverse camera too. cant work out whether it will record both forward and reverse pics at same time, or you have to pick which one. sods law if you have an accident itd be the opposite end if so 🙂
v8ninety, also interested in [url= http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171979713004 ]your link[/url] ta.
im guessing the video quality would be similar, theyd both need an SD card buying too, but can anyone confirm how easy it is to get footage from it? dont want to be trying to take it down or getting to fiddly little slots to remove the card.....
do either (or any other similar priced jobbies for that matter) 'talk' to a smartphone? or even allow a phone to connect to it wired and d/load the footage?
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It records both images at the same time, the rear display is overlaid in the upper corner of the dashcam screen and you can toggle between front view only or front view + rear view in corner of screen or rear view + front view in corner of screen, to get the images from it you remove the card and slot it into a usb card reader thingy.
My dad has a Transcend dash cam (£90ish on amazon) and that can play images to his iPad with the Transcend app if needs be.
Cashcam? FFS why? Next we'll all be walking round town with GoPros on our heads, just incase someone else does something we don't like. Worlds gone mad!!!
It's not a great situation but I can absolutely see why people want video evidence when insurers are keen to treat every knock as 50:50 plus issues with uninsured drivers leaving the scene or folk doing crash-for-cash scams.
what is your solution agent007?
mine arrived as well today from ebay.. cheapo piece of SHTT 👿 going back straight tomorrow to the seller... I will fight tooth and nails to get this back to the seller, thats how bad mine is when I tested it earlier.. cannot even read plate number a meter away 😡 VGA, 720p 1080p .. all same quality and not a single pixel difference.
back to square one, I will have a look in currys tomorrow and get a proper one.. maybe that Transcend thingy
what is your solution agent007
How about we all learn to drive a bit better and be more considerate towards each other instead if trying to pin the blame onto someone else every time something goes wrong?
Personally I object to people filming me without my permission when I'm out and about. CCTV everywhere is bad enough but now every Tom, Dick and Harry has a dashcam, seemingly ready to 'dob in' or post the mistakes of others online for all to see. Get a life FFS !!!
@wolfenstein The same one as this? [url= http://www.ebay.com/itm/171869526148?rmvSB=true ]cam[/url]
I tested mine and I played it back on my Chromebook saves as .mp4 (handy) and it was fine. The way I see it is that it's better than nowt!
@agent007 unfortunately the standard of driving + the cash for crash gits are making them a necessity to keep your no claims!
@monkeychild .. its [url= http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390649643022?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT ]this[/url] one.horrible!
I got the one in my link and it's ok IMHO.
@agent007 unfortunately the standard of driving + the cash for crash gits are making them a necessity to keep your no claims!
Absolute bobbins - if you're properly observant and leave sufficient space between you and the car in-front then why would you ever fall victim to this sort of thing? Perhaps that Cashcam money would be better spent on some extra driver training which might stop you having an accident in the first place?
Yep extra training will help when the car goes from parked at the side of the road with the door open and left hand indicator on into the side of your passengers door, then claims you were overtaking them while they waited to pass the vehicle in front.
Their word against ours and the insurance went with them. A dash cam would have shown them to be lying out their arse.
I fitted a dash cam after that and a few near misses with people pulling out of junctions and round abouts at stupid times. People must be too busy surfing facebook or something to actually drive.
Okay great so it seems we're all more than happy to use dashcam footage to 'sue the arse' out of anyone else who makes a mistake, yet none of us is prepared to take extra training themselves to make the roads a safer place?
if you're properly observant and leave sufficient space between you and the car in-front then why would you ever fall victim to this sort of thing?
So, for example, you stop behind someone at the traffic lights. They reverse into you and then claim you hit them. Your word against theirs and default position of insurers is to pay out as your fault.
Okay great so it seems we're all more than happy to use dashcam footage to 'sue the arse' out of anyone else who makes a mistake,
I don't think anyone on this thread has suggested anything of the sort?
As dash cams become more popular the general standard of driving goes down, and more aggressive drivers become. I find that odd.
Is it just a perceived benefit as plod don't take the footage seriously?
Correlation != Causation
That clearly explains why people are [s]spending[/s] wasting money on these cameras, thanks.
I obviously think that they're a total waste of money.
Is it just a perceived benefit as plod don't take the footage seriously?
Haven't there been numerous cases of the polis investigating various incidents as a result of dashcam/helmet cam footage?
Oh and as GrahamS said, correlation =/= causation. More likely that plummeting driving standards (if they are plummeting) and people like eg trail-rat above feeling let down by insurance companies who can't be bothered to fight their corner as knock-for-knock is easier have caused the increased use of dashcams.
Or was your dashcams = plummeting standards a troll? 😕
Or was your dashcams = plummeting standards a troll?
Not a troll, I see some appalling driving on a day to day basis and yet the perpetators don't seem to be put off by the possibility of being caught on camera. In a few cases there might be some merit. But in general, no.
So you're maintaining that dashcams cause plummeting standards and that polis don't act on footage of (serious) incidents? Sorry...just trying to work out the point you were making.
So you're maintaining that dashcams cause plummeting standards
Now who's trolling? That's nowhere near what I said.
The question is why bother spending money on a dashcam if they serve no purpose?
Steady on fella - I'm only trying to work out what you meant when you said:
As dash cams become more popular the general standard of driving goes down, and more aggressive drivers become. I find that odd.
The question is why bother spending money on a dashcam if they serve no purpose?
Oh right, have we established that they serve no purpose?
Going to wade in again.
My dad was hit head on by an vw lt35 van in france last year.
He was riding his motorbike. Blind luck he is still here with us even if he is still suffering
Mr french man got out his van and said to the gendarmerie. English man was on the wrong side of the road- and they were prepared to accept this when they started questioning my dads mates accusing them of lying.
They then cracked out the helmet cam (wit gps speed data showing they were cruising at 30)footage from their bikes and showed a van careering across the road onto the wrong side of the road and wiping out my dad head on and sideswiping the following bike. - the police took the van driver off in cuffs
The french insurance company then started pushing back saying the same thing as mr van driver despite charges. Again - camera foootage was deployed.
How does extra training prevent that and he subsequent lying.
Basically too many self serving ****s in this world you gotta look out for number 1
That clearly explains why people are spending wasting money on these cameras, thanks.
Oooh snarky. Okay let me be clearer then. You said "As dash cams become more popular the general standard of driving goes down" - that's suggesting causation, but all we actually have is correlation.
It is just as likely that the causation works the other way and dashcam popularity is increasing in response to a perceived drop in driving standards. Or that there is no real link and they just happen to correlate.
why bother spending money on a dashcam if they serve no purpose?
What makes you think they serve no purpose? Several people on this thread have reported success stories.
Well I want one in my Van and I dont care what the Paper shop drivers think.
Several people on this thread have reported success stories.
We see a few instances where culpits have been caught, which is good. But in my experience, and I have plenty, I have never needed a dashcam and in answer to the OP I don't have one and will not as long as I have a choice in the matter.
If you feel that you have to try and convince me otherwise, knock yourself out. My advice is that you save your time.
Perhaps that Cashcam money would be better spent on some extra driver training which might stop you having an accident in the first place?
Does driver training give you ESP???? Not sure if obvious troll is obvious.
I always leave a 2 second gap when driving and plan ahead. This doesn't stop other twunts doing stupid overtaking manouvres, pulling out of junctions when it's not safe or my favourite today driving down the middle of an A road.
This shows their worth IMHO [url= http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/232185-firby-in-traffic-collision/ ]Ouch[/url]
If you feel that you have to try and convince me otherwise, knock yourself out. My advice is that you save your time.
Says the man who joined a thread about buying dashcams specifically to try and convince everyone that they are a waste of money. 😆
🙄Says the man who joined a thread about buying dashcams specifically to [s]try and convince everyone that they are a waste of money[/s] introduce their own opinion in the chat forum.
My apologies for going against the grain.
introduce their own opinion in the chat forum. My apologies for going against the grain.
Well if you feel that you have to try and convince me that they are pointless then knock yourself out. My advice is that you save your time. 😀
Well the OP question was, Do you have a Dashcam? So feel free to join in.
I felt I needed one tonight on a 25 mile drive home. 3 Lemmings tried to be my bonnet mascots.
Poor little darlings must have been tired after looking at there Monitors all day long 😯
Honestly it sounds like half the people on here can't drive! Other cars do unexpected and stupid things - you should expect and plan your driving around it, not rely on a Cashcam to simply apportion blame should the worst happen. With proper observation and anticipation then there's very little out there on the road that should be unexpected. If you find you're getting surprised all the time then you're either not concentrating, perhaps lack driving experience or might simply benefit from some more training.
It's the thin end of the wedge, where does it stop? Should I record myself (and those around me) all of the time doing everything just to prove in every situation that I'm not to blame for whatever happens around me?
There's too many cameras now monitoring what people do - it's getting ridiculous and the last thing we want is for those cameras to be in the hands of incompetents or those self serving militant types who are out to prove a point as seems to be the case with a lot of Cash/bike cam footage posted online.
Gigs are filmed on phones now for watching on a laptop later (rather than watching it live with your eyes in the first place). CCTV is everywhere, monitoring your every move. We had a drone hovering over our back garden around Xmas time. You can't go biking or snowboarding any more without someone recording the whole damn thing on a GoPro to bore their mates with their average riding at the bar afterwards. For god's sake give us a break!!!
^lol
Other cars do unexpected and stupid things
Plenty of examples of stuff that has happened to people where a collision is unavoidable. Hint: that's why "accidents" happen. They're not [i]all[/i] the result of both parties being at fault, sometimes it just takes one person to do something stupid. Added to that, all your ninja skills won't help when somebody is wilfully causing the "accident". I think you actually realise this in actuality and are just doing the usual driving-god-troll shtick you enjoy so much before straw-manning about CCTV and gigs...but hey...knock yourself out.
Interesting thread. Dashcams are for catching out liars and/or insurance co's who are trying it on. FWIW my car was scuffed in residents car park and drievr from next door denied it despite paint from my car on his - fortunately cctv showed the incident and his wife and her friend getting out if their car to look at mine 😯
I'm very tempted especially by sensor ones which could detect parking / vandalism incidents too, being very open one's with gps would need ability to switch that off.
[url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11844317/Aston-Martin-keying-Silly-Hackney-father-admits-damaging-100k-car-outside-Tesco.html ]Here's a nice case of a guy who was caught on dashcam causing £8,000 of damage to an Aston Martin while it was parked outside Tesco. [/url]
Though obviously the owner could have avoided this by driving better. 🙄
personally ive got no problem with cameras all over the town/roads, watching my every move if they so wish. they can only help me if i need to prove something, theyll never catch me causing a fight in the street or burgling a house. and if mine/someone elses dashcam did prove it was me thats done somethings daft, id have no problem with accepting blame.
Holy tin foil hatsbat man. Jivehoneyjive has another login.
I wish i could post my dads video actually ( pending court case) id like to see how ninja skills would avoid the van.