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Customer Review
Esteban Botwin
1.0
BUYER BEWARE! Great picture quality, but will not record when you're counting on it the most.Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2019
I ordered this camera on January 20th, 2019 due to the fact I was considering driving uber in my spare time. The dual camera was a must for doing rideshares, and the parking feature gave me added piece of mind for vehicle damages in random parking lots since I drive a fairly nice vehicle. These days even private citizens have to always be concerned with liability, we live in a litigious society.*Note that I also purchased the Vantrue Hard-wire kit(to take full advantage of the parking feature, and I didn't want visible wires) as well as the GPS suction base (gives the function of adding vehicle speed readouts on the footage).Pros: After installing the camera and having about a couple of days worth of footage I was very impressed with the picture quality when playing back on my PC. Even video at high speeds was crystal clear and *fairly* easy to read license plates on screen grabs. Night time exterior camera is decent, about as well as you could expect from a dashcam without forward facing infrared. The interior camera is fairly solid, and independently adjustable on a vertical axis. It captures nearly the entire cab of my crew cab truck, especially the passengers, and as an added bonus it sees out the back glass (10% Tint) for decent bed coverage as well.CONS: This is where the dealbreaker is. Since I purchased this dashcam 11 months ago there have been 4 instances as to where I needed to review the footage (1 road rage incident, 2 near-miss-accidents, and most recently 1 motor vehicle accident). The first 3 just didn't have a video file for that 5 minute segment of footage saved --- everything else was there, and nothing was placed in the "EVENT" folder either (which honestly never gets any footage saved to it other than when the wind lightly blows shrubs or it rains). The most recent one, I was involved in a motor vehicle accident where another vehicle entered my lane --- and I was ecstatic that I had dashcam footage of it to provide the insurance company and to my family/friends only to find out the specific 5 minute segment of video that contained the lead up to the wreck and the accident itself was "corrupted" and has been unplayable by every video player we've tried for corrupt files. I was not at fault in the accident, the other party was even issued a citation --- however when you have a dashcam on your windshield and you are in a wreck, at least in my case, the police were quick to mention the dash cam and request footage. Looks pretttttty shady when you call back the following day and tell them it didn't record. Talk about an embarassment.TL;DR - Great picture quality, cool looking compact camera. Just don't expect it to ever record anything important that you may or may not need. You'll get hours and hours of the breeze blowing though, so if nature watching is your thing this might just work.
