Dash cams, what to get and where to get it (Q&A only)

Alanstrainor · 09-07-2015 1:04pm

The quality looks great for the price tbh!

AndyBoBandy · 09-07-2015 2:24pm

Haven't actually used it at night yet!! Haven't really had the chance to use it at all other than the little test I did up and down to tesco that day!

I might be over to the U.K. next week, and will hopefully get a proper test of it, but for something like €17 all in (free shipping from Amazon), you can't really lose!!
It's just something I can throw in the laptop bag and take with me, and if it ever gets broken? meh! €17

OldMrBrennan83 · 18-07-2015 4:10pm

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AndyBoBandy · 18-07-2015 5:34pm

I'd avoid this one anyway, if getting an E-Prance, at a minimum, get an E-Prance mini 0801, compact, reliable, cheap and excellent quality.
0803, 0805, 0806 if you want to spend a little more for the updated models.

The mobius is quite popular too, but it doesn't have a playback screen like the mini series

Axel Lamp · 18-07-2015 5:58pm

Wow, a 91% reduction in price from £399 to £37, surely a no brainer

OldMrBrennan83 · 18-07-2015 6:03pm

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Masala · 19-07-2015 11:07am

Put one in my Amazon basket but haven't pulled the trigger on it yet. The discount caught my attention but still don't know if it's suitable for me. Seems quite big for a winscreen???

Should I hold off for something smaller.... Is it really worth 300 quid????

BohsCeltic · 19-07-2015 11:18am

I have that one, quality is good. I do get some interference on my radio though, tried it in another car and it was fine.
I use a class 10 32g card with it aswell.
Sometimes when i go back and look at footage there can be some missing when it loops.

PeteK* · 19-07-2015 5:25pm

Are there any car manufactures that have built in dash cams as an optional extra?
There are lots of cars with cameras all over them.. but are they recording and stuff?

JamboMac · 19-07-2015 5:36pm

I don't believe their is any recording facility yet, I wonder is their a way to connect a hard-drive some way.

sunnysoutheast · 19-07-2015 11:16pm

None that I know of.

Would be fecking great if a manufacturer offered a USB socket at the front of the interior light unit, so you could connect a short cable without having to route it all through the car.

OldMrBrennan83 · 20-07-2015 9:22am

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vex · 24-07-2015 9:15pm

I have an 805 in my car. very good quality recording in both day and night. The only thing i have noticed is that it does get a bit warm when recording, also I think mine is slightly out of focus. Its easy enough to fix but I'm too lazy to take the device apart

kirving · 24-07-2015 9:22pm

They don't no, currently just as a driver aid. In time though, it's conceivable that this will be added in.

OldMrBrennan83 · 25-07-2015 9:59am

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Irish Stones · 27-07-2015 7:41am

A 32GB card stores about 5 hours, so you should have 10 hours recording. Is it enough for you?

vex · 27-07-2015 8:07am

I have the unit with GPS and no internal memory. From what Ive read I think you can only record to either the internal memory or to the SD card not both ( if the 8 gig is full it wont start recording to the 64 gig card). Depending on the resolution you set the footage to record at and how many trips you do you would be able to get a day or so's recording out of it.

I would recommend the application register viewer (Google is your friend) to view the footage. E-prance has a built in application for view footage when the unit is connected to a PC, but it is a bit flaky and will sometimes not display all your footage

OldMrBrennan83 · 27-07-2015 8:24am

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AndyBoBandy · 27-07-2015 8:56am

The trick is (for me anyway) is to have 2 SD cards of equal size, that way I can take one into the house to review/copy footage, and have a spare to put back into the camera immediately.
Also with this, If I'm going on a long days driving (5-6 hours), I'd bring the spare sd card with me, and if I did see something I'd want to review later, I can swap out the card at the next opportunity. I'm not a big fan of locking the clips while I'm driving, as it's just a distraction, and the incident could have happened over 2 3 minute loops.

Irish Stones · 27-07-2015 9:03am

If the incident involves your car the dash cam should lock the clip itself because the G-sensor activates the lock.

AndyBoBandy · 27-07-2015 9:10am

I have it disabled.

In the event I am involved in an incident, I doubt I'd be driving an additional 5 hours to allow the camera to go back and write over the original clip before having the chance to store/save the clips of the incident.

diomed · 27-07-2015 12:30pm

My dashcam buy post was in # 460 above.

Six months ago I was cut in by an overtaking car. The contact was minimized as I saw him coming.
The next day I brought the dashcam video at the nearest Garda station, five screenprints, and showed the car damage.
He denied contact, wasn't on that road, my word against his, and all that.
The Garda showed him (and his father) the proof. I got beautiful pictures of his car reg.

micks_address · 29-07-2015 10:32pm

Ok folks looking at the eprance dashcams 806 seems hard to source? How is the 801 in comparison?

AndyBoBandy · 30-07-2015 11:39am

I have both, the 0801 is brilliant, reliable, it's now in my rear window, replaced up front by an 0806, which is technicially better than the 0801, but as I'm sure you'll read, there are/were teething problems with it, but once overcome, it's great.

I believe the 0803 & 0805 are better than the 0801, and more reliable than the 0806, but not having them, I can't say.

overall though I'd say the 0801 is better value for the price paid for it compared to price paid for the 0806

(I got my 0801 from amazon, the 0806 from gear best)

OldMrBrennan83 · 30-07-2015 9:43pm

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micks_address · 30-07-2015 9:49pm

Where from?

OldMrBrennan83 · 30-07-2015 10:29pm

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OldMrBrennan83 · 31-07-2015 7:43am

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vex · 31-07-2015 8:24am

That looks like the same packaging i got. You can tell if its not an 805 if it has less than 5 resolution settings to choose from.

more info:

https://dashcamtalk.com/mini-0805/

OldMrBrennan83 · 31-07-2015 8:32am

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vex · 31-07-2015 8:33am

not too long I'm afraid. 2 - 5 mins at the most.

OldMrBrennan83 · 31-07-2015 8:40am

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vex · 31-07-2015 8:47am

one of the fun things to look forward to when installing a dash cam:D . I drive an octavia and found it fairly easy to hide the cable/ install a secondary cigarette socket . Might be a bit more easier / harder on different models of cars.

OldMrBrennan83 · 31-07-2015 8:53am

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vex · 31-07-2015 9:09am

My cam is mounted behind the review mirror. I mounted mine slightly down from the mirror so I can see the LED. Its just for my piece of mind that the cam is recording etc.

Irish Stones · 31-07-2015 9:16am

If your question means "how long can the cam work without power cable", then in my case, a mini0801, it lasts a bit more than one hour.
I was amazed whent I did the test!

AndyBoBandy · 31-07-2015 9:39am

You can buy the hardwire kits on eBay for about €10-€12, I have 2, pity I haven't gotten them installed yet!!
But the supplied cables are both long enough to go around and under, and both terminate at my centre console, where I have a socket, and I use a multi adaptor to get them all plugged in.

OldMrBrennan83 · 31-07-2015 1:39pm

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Hal1 · 31-07-2015 1:44pm

If you hold down the up arrow button it will let you into the settings menu. From there you can adjust the length of each recording.

There is a sub folder on the root of the camera. Inside of it there is an executable file that is used to review footage from the cam.

OldMrBrennan83 · 31-07-2015 1:48pm

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Damien360 · 31-07-2015 2:12pm

No. You just pressed the up arrow. Hold it down. Then it will go to sub menu. I have 0801 and it is same menu. Change recording to continuous .

Damien360 · 31-07-2015 2:18pm

I should have also said, press the ok button first to stop recording before trying to get to the sub menu

OldMrBrennan83 · 31-07-2015 2:31pm

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Hachiko · 31-07-2015 10:51pm

I have that Motion detect off, It will keep recording at lights etc, power is still going to the camera.

I got the 0806, these are good cameras and you get the updates on the site here - at least for 0806 models.

http://www.mini0806.com/update.html

OldMrBrennan83 · 02-08-2015 10:17pm

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MarkAnthony · 03-08-2015 8:36pm

I was going to post some tool overtaking on hatching coming up the Howth road but the 0803 hasn't recording anything since June - Any ideas? Card has 500Mb on it but not recording anything.

EDIT: Note to self - plugging it in helps.

04-08-2015 5:38pm

I've settled on the Nextbase 402G pro!
Had the mini 0806 before this and whilst is good, I still find the Nextbase sharper and easier to view stills and registrations.
One big issue I had with the 0806 is the uneven focus on the lens!
There is some DIY instructions for fixing this but I wouldn't attempt it, they are so fragile most users would destroy it!
Night driving on the 402g is excellent!

OldMrBrennan83 · 04-08-2015 5:43pm

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Gumbo · 04-08-2015 11:27pm

Just on a side note, my möbius stopped recording this year also. Turns out the memory card was just fecked. I put it down to it reaching its max amount of record, delete and record again cycles.

Dash cams, what to get and where to get it (Q&A only)

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