So given how protective most C7 owners seem to be of their cars, I figured this would be the best place to ask .

In the past five years, I've come back to my cars missing an entire side mirror, a shattered side window (only thing stolen was a can of coke when I had a GPS mounted right on the windshield ), had to pay out of pocket when a guy sideswiped me leaving his parking spot and I couldn't prove it, and had a 17 year old girl blow a stop sign and caused 12k worth of damage (thankfully her insurance paid for everything even though she initially tried to blame it on me, thankfully a great guy who saw the whole thing was willing to act as a witness).

So ultimately, when I take delivery of my C7 one of the first things I want to slap on her is a dashcam. I plan to use it as a daily driver and quite frankly I don't have much faith in the driving ability of the average American. Unfortunately, I haven't really seen any that seem to meet all of my criteria, so hoping someone else already has!

1) Record both front and rear
2) Decent enough quality to catch license plates
3) Has a parking mode that can catch at least 8 hours of footage while parked
4) The smaller the better

Don't care about the price too much, so does anyone know of anything that fits the bill? The Scepter CCR2000 doesn't seem too bad, with the exception being that it only records front video and looks fairly massive. I found a thread recommending GoPros but they have no parking mode. Anyone using one of these things and know of a good one?

http://www.sceptre.com/Products/Othe...20MainPage.htm.

 

I have been looking at dashcams as well, the best one i think i have seen is
Front and back HD cameras, motion sensitive, and very full featured. I just picked up my car yesterday so I need to get on this... and a radar detector...

 

Mobius gets great reviews, but not sure it has a park mode. It is apparently the size of a tic tac box and shoots 1080p.

You can use the power magic pro from blackvue with any camera to prevent too much battery drain.

Check out dashcamtalk.com

 

I just the BlackVue. I have the older version that has worked great.

 

http://spytechs.com/Car-Cameras/default.htm

 

Hah, my hunch was right. Knew someone here would have found a good one by now .

Kind of pricy @ 500, but after youtubing some sample footage I'm sold. Looks like it even catches license plates decently at night, and meets all my criteria. I'll go with this one then, thanks!

 

Glad I could help.

 

go to dashcamtalk forum. Lots of good info there.

You need:
HD to read tags
no LED illumination, they are useless
no screen, makes it bigger and are useless-set it up once and forget about it
use a separate camera for front and read. The all in one will not have HD both front and back. If they advertise HD it will only be if you are using one camera.
Get a power supply for these cameras- they will shut off the camera if battery voltage gets low so you won't drain your battery. Some have provisions for 2 cameras with switches to set min battery voltage and whether you want park feature on or off.
Get built in GPS
Get Parking feature
Get knock sensor (acceleromter in various axis)
8 gig data card will hold 1 day. Get 32 data card
I have
Most of these are built in Korea.
I have ITBD HD blackbox, one for the front and one for the rear.The have been working for about 6 mths so far with no issues. Interior sound is poor but I don't need it.
Some Dashcams run very hot so check out the forum.

 

all of the above, but I would emphasize you need the park feature to capture anyone fiddling around your car when you are in shopping, at a restaurant, at the movies, golfing, etc. police like when they have pics to go on to catch a thief/vandals.

 

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