Has anyone managed to pick up a decent dash cam at a good price with all of these Black Friday sales going on at the moment?

Really wish I had bought one a while ago after some wood falling off a lorry on Thursday morning on the M56 which hit our Tiguan smack bang in the middle of the windscreen which obviously shattered it and destroyed the wipers in the process.

The lorry carried on as if nothing had happened and my wife didn't get the registration as it was dark, pi55ing down with rain, she was doing around 70 mph at the time and the motorway was chocka as usual with cars all around her that she didn't want to collide with.

Time for a dash cam!!

 

I have a MiWitness in my everyday Golf, which also has a rear camera, because not all incidents happen in front of you. The cameras are hard-wired, and have a "parking" mode which is movement activated, via a gizmo which monitors the battery voltage and will sleep if the battery drops below 11.8 volts. This setup cost somewhere north of £300, but is still cheaper than my insurance excess.

I have an Eprance 0805 in the S2000, which cost around £60 and has better definition than the MiWitness.

There's no point in having a dash camera that isn't hard-wired. You need it to be active at all times, and not have to remember to switch it on/plug it in to the fag lighter. Because, inevitably, you'll have an "incident" and the camera won't be recording it.

 

Although I fully understand most peoples motivations for getting a dash cam, the one issue that puts me off them is the inevitable obsession with other peoples driving that seems to go with ownership. Every minor incident becomes note worthy, and ends up on YouTube as a stick to beat other road users with, especially cyclists and motorcyclists.

That being said, it could save you a headache of a insurance claim or provide us with amusing incidents involving Evo drivers. I'm surprised at the number I see left in cars in public places, and I'm not surprised the criminals haven't started helping themselves much like they did with sat-navs in the early days.

 

No, to avoid that happening, all you have to remember is 'don't be a c**t' - problem solved. It's perfectly possible to have, use it and never have the footage anywhere but on the camera.

 

I've used the footage twice to make a third party fess up in two different cars and once to threaten the repair company over their 'approach' to my vehicle by the 'repairer'.

Dashcams change the playing field entirely. Get one and you'll see when you have cause to use it.

 

Over 2 yrs I've had mine and not down loaded any footage too any where . It sits there behind the mirror ,totally out of sight and mind .

 

Most people will happily do the same and they certainly do have a use in an age when people are too chicken to man up and admit it was their fault. So I guess my issue is with peoples lack of honesty, and not so much with the cameras themselves. It's a solution to a problem, that shouldn't exist.

Back "in the good old days" there would never have been a need

Could the Police solely use this video footage along with a witness statement to do someone for jumping red traffic lights for example?

 

People have been done purely on dash cam footage . However ,is this a bad thing ? With the gradual falling of driving standards due , in part, to lack of policing and the rise of improperly trained / licensed drivers I'm all for anything that that gets these people off the road .

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-34933345

Watch the video. This bloke (who owns a dash-cam company) has clearly gone out trying to provoke trouble (by driving slowly down the middle lane) so he can film it and promote his product.

 

why was he driving at 50mph with his hazard lights on ,in the middle lane