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Customer Review
mavirek
4.0
Capacitor, OBD2 port ready, and 3-channelsReviewed in the United States on August 14, 2021
Between the overhyped leaders and the overhyped knockoffs, there is an undersold (in the sense of widespread praise) contender worth your hard-earned dollar--Vantue's N4 3-ch Capacitor/OBD-ready dash cam.First, a word about OBD-ready dash cams. It is utterly insane that dash cam manufacturers advertise Parking Mode--knowing full well it won't work out of the box; and then push consumers wanting to use Parking Mode to hardwire the dash cam into the vehicle fuse box. The fuse box can get you electrocuted and fry your vehicle's electronics. IT IS NOT A DIY PROJECT. AND IT IS PARTICULARLY INSANE WHEN they could just provide the plug-n-play experience consumer's expect by providing a cable to the OBD2 port. Vantrue walked a fine line: while they too lead with fine print telling you some features require hardwiring to the vehicle's fuse box, they did design their dash cam to work with the OBD2 port and sold separately the cable to for that. It is because I learned of the OBD2 port option from AutoFun (on YouTube), that I went looking for a OBD-ready dash cam. And IT WORKS.So in a nutshell, if you're going to have suffocating heat burn through your windshield, then you need a capacitor because a lithium ion battery might fail catastrophically. If you're going to use Parking Mode, then you're going to want an OBD2 port option. And if you're going to install a dash cam at all, then you need 3 channels: one to record who brake checked you; one to see who nudged up behind you; and the interior cam to prove you had your seatbelt on and who walked up on your vehicle to key it.Vantrue's N4 checks all those boxes.What it is missing is an app: to avoid clicking through it's annoying menus; and to receive alerts. But those are luxuries in contrast to the capacitor, OBD2 port option and 3-chs.
