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Customer Review
Galdor
4.0
Easy to Use and Good QualityReviewed in the United States on February 13, 2022
Pros:1) I found the camera easy to setup because the menus were very simple and logical to navigate. It only requires one plug with a mini usb for power and data transfer. I like this much more than having a power adapter type plug because with those you always need to have the right one, whereas the mini usb is standard.2) The picture quality both forward and back are good and the night vision is good. The back facing camera even does a decent job of catching what's happening behind my car. It's a large sedan, but this might not be true in an SUV or something.3) Transfer of data is easy by plugging the unit into a PC with the usb cable. The file storage system is simple and it's easy to find the videos you want.Cons:1) The GPS functionality only works if you get a special GPS suction mount from Vantrue. The location where the camera mounts to the base is a special USB port that transmits data from a GPS inside the base to the camera. I didn't want a suction mount so I bought a 3rd party mount that clips to the mirror. This means I can't use the GPS. I would much rather the GPS had its own standard USB so that you could hook up any GPS antenna to it and use any mount.2) Not knocking any stars off for this because it's a feature I knew I wasn't paying for, but it would be nice to have wifi on the dash cam so that I could access and copy videos from my home network instead of taking a tablet out to the car, plugging it into the USB, and leaving it to copy for an extended period. If you aren't copying files regularly, it's not a huge deal. You could also just unhook the camera and take it inside to plug into a computer.General Tips1) You might have the same situation I did when considering installing a dashcam. You don't want to deal with getting a cable run to the fuse box, but the cigarette lighter option is not very good because the lighter port is in a drawer that opens and closes in the center console and you'll have a big mess of wires. A good third option is to get an adapter to plug into your cars OBD2 port which is the diagnostic port for the car. It provides power all the time and it's often in a much better out of the way location for plugging in a dashcam. Just make sure you get an adapter that can detect that the car has turned off and turn the power off to the camera. Some have a switch that allows you to swap between modes where it will stay on or turn off when the car is off. You can find out online where your cars OBD2 port is.
