In about 2013, when driving on a main road past a building site, a truck in front of me shed a half brick off the top of its load. The brick skittered along the road and hit the front skirt of my Audi. £120 worth of damage, and while I had the registration of the truck, there was absolutely nothing I could do about it without proof.
At that point, I decided I would never own a car without a dashcam again.
I bought a little Mobius camera for something like £80 all in which I fitted in the Audi with USB power coming from the 12v lighter socket. The sense of security it brings is wonderful and I recorded some incidents with it like this one:
Of course, there was no evidence if someone ran in to the back of my car, so I bought a second Mobius and mounted it at the back.
And there was still no evidence if someone damaged my car while parked, so when I bought my first EV, the Hyundai Ioniq, I got a Thinkware F770 and had it professionally fitted.
I chose that particular model because it has front and back cameras linked to the one unit, is full HD for both the front and rear camera recordings and has good reviews. It's been superseded since 2017 and if you want to research which model to get, then DashCamTalk is a great resource.
Now I have the security of knowing that if someone damages the car while parked, there is a good chance that there will be video evidence.
In the more than 3 years that I've been driving the car, I've never needed the video as evidence of damage, but I have recorded plenty of interesting and alarming incidents on the road.
For those people who don't have a Tesla (like) sentry mode in the car, I highly recommend having a dashcam fitted.
A professionally fitted front and back dashcam with parking mode is not going to be cheap, but in my opinion, is absolutely worth the investment. I speculate that it will pay for itself if you have just one case of your care being damaged.
At that point, I decided I would never own a car without a dashcam again.
I bought a little Mobius camera for something like £80 all in which I fitted in the Audi with USB power coming from the 12v lighter socket. The sense of security it brings is wonderful and I recorded some incidents with it like this one:
Of course, there was no evidence if someone ran in to the back of my car, so I bought a second Mobius and mounted it at the back.
And there was still no evidence if someone damaged my car while parked, so when I bought my first EV, the Hyundai Ioniq, I got a Thinkware F770 and had it professionally fitted.
I chose that particular model because it has front and back cameras linked to the one unit, is full HD for both the front and rear camera recordings and has good reviews. It's been superseded since 2017 and if you want to research which model to get, then DashCamTalk is a great resource.
Now I have the security of knowing that if someone damages the car while parked, there is a good chance that there will be video evidence.
In the more than 3 years that I've been driving the car, I've never needed the video as evidence of damage, but I have recorded plenty of interesting and alarming incidents on the road.
For those people who don't have a Tesla (like) sentry mode in the car, I highly recommend having a dashcam fitted.
A professionally fitted front and back dashcam with parking mode is not going to be cheap, but in my opinion, is absolutely worth the investment. I speculate that it will pay for itself if you have just one case of your care being damaged.
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