Dash Camera

[Phil White]

Not really Aygo specific but does anyone use a Dashcam?

Thinking of buying one and seen quite a few choices. Those that are built into a mirror type look ok but not sure about the quality

I could do with something that's capable of running on its own Battery for about an hour as I don't want to be routing cabled if I can avoid that.

Any ideas anyone?

[petesellit]

I looked into this when I wanted a reverseing cam & in the end found having it fitted & wired was the best route to go down in the end.

[Heidfirst]

depends how permanent an installation you want or if you can live with just plugging it into the lighter/aux socket. I don't know of any that are designed to just run off Battery for any length of time although they may exist but that would make them bigger/heavier.

Another thing to take care with is that there are rules regarding where you can fit it in terms of intruding into the wiper-swept area of the windscreen & also security of mount.

[Mutt08]

I use the Mobius Dashcam, Just mount it on the windscreen using one of a variety of mounts then plugin into the cigarette lighter & forget about it.

It starts to record on start up & then shutsdown once the engines turned off, loops over old recordings on the sd card.

Have a look at the video:

[Wiz201]

I use one. As I'll only have my car for another year on pcp finance I just live with the cables coming down the centre of the dashboard to the cigarette lighter. But after being blamed for knocking down a pedestrian I couldn't see and not having a dash cam to back me up, I can live with a cable or two rather than losing my ncb again.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mercurymall%C2%AE-Camera-Recorder-Vision-G-sensor/dp/B00ST67AXM/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1451145131&sr=8-9&keywords=car+front+and+rear+dash+cam

I find having a rear camera does make people back off because they can see it. I leave the camera in all the time.

[dustyjoe]

I have set up a dash cam on my daughters car. Plugged in to the cig lighter socket. I ran the cables behind the roof and door trim.

You can see it on this link, not intrusive and looks neat and smart.

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpl1/t31.0-8/12377767_10154391062979018_4305958494172562178_o.jpg