Lots of these on the market now, in all shapes and sizes and varying capacity to drain the battery overnight.
Noticed some have a small battery pack that can be installed in the glovebox, which also eliminates the ugliness of a power cable plugged into the cigarette lighter.
Anyone have any recommendations, either for or against, for ease of mounting, hiding cables around the windscreen trim, having a battery pack in the glovebox, etc.?
Thanks.
All my cars have dash cams. You can hot wire or run the cables around windscreen trim then route it under floor mat. You can even get dual front back dash cams, all of them allow you to rotate camera when you need it.
It is an important safety item to have, in my 20 years of driving experience I only had one bad encounter with jealous hater. Sometimes people don't know the behind scene work required to have nice things.
Dash cam also makes people think twice before carrying out stupid acts on the road. I once accelerated past another car within speed limit, but car was loud and I was expecting a thumbs up when she pulled next to me to ask me to roll down the window. She just said smile asshole you are on camera.
The lady then tried to followed me home. I stopped a few blocks away after I noticed she was following. She was a middle Eastern lady and immediately she started cursing in front of her boy and said you need to go back to your country. Kinda ironic as I am US citizen and this is my country.
Not a good example for her son. If the kid was not present, I would not had been so nice. I waited there with her until police showed up. First thing police said was why didn't you just ditch her, you can easily do it with your car? I just said there are crazy people out there, last thing I want to do it put my family in danger. After that I just never want deal with 2 sides of story scenario. Having dash cam, you can drive with a lot more security.
After that incident I no longer drive without a dash cam
