Hello,, New Member,,, Do all dash cams suck? Or am I expecting to much out of China and Korean Junk?
So let me start out with a good dashcam given to me as a gift five or 6 years ago. Some no name china junk that worked great! Video was clean day or night,, plenty of detail. Parking mode was great be it motion or impact. Plug it into a power port, hide the wire and forget about it. Then it quit working a few months ago.
So I buy a new car,,, Nothing fancy just a 2018 Ford Fusion for daily grind work. I drive 90 miles a day round trip in the car or on the Harley. So I think,,, lets get a dash cam for the car and some action cams for the bike. It's getting quite harry out there now days. I haven't a clue how most drivers now days even qualify to get a drivers lic. It's evident they haven't a clue how to drive.
So the first cam was a YI Smart Dash Cam. Great video quality, Simple,,, does what they claim. Then dead in 3 hours. Well so much for YI,, won't be buying any of there action cams. China junk #1 down.
I guess it's time now to do more research. Waist hours and hours reading, watching videos. I mean a insane amount of time going into this research. Maybe I'm not very smart. So I order a Viofo A119S and a A119 Pro. If I like one or the other or both I will put one in the front,, one in the back. Lets just see? They both were trash. Out of focus, hot pixels, Complete garbage. So more China junk goes back for a refund.
So I do more research,,, does it really have to be this hard? So frustrated I went to Best Buy and bought a Thinkware F800, F800R and there way over priced hardwire kit. I turn myself into a pretzel installing the hardwire kit. Stuff cables and stick the cams up and it's installed. Update the firmware and off I go into the absolute worse wifi, hotspot and cloud setup I have ever seen in my life. It's all slow, clunky and very amature. It hasn't over heated yet in the hot Okie sun. And it seems to have at least passable video and as slow and horribly done as the interface is,,, it sort of works. For $420 or so dollars including tax it's really a let down. I'm going to keep the junk because my time is worth far more than the time needed to pull all the cams out and all the cabling and return the junk. I will never buy another Thinkware product again.
At this point I don't think I will very buy another dash cam again.
Looking in on this industry from the outside,,, it's just a bunch of over priced pacific rim crap!
So let me start out with a good dashcam given to me as a gift five or 6 years ago. Some no name china junk that worked great! Video was clean day or night,, plenty of detail. Parking mode was great be it motion or impact. Plug it into a power port, hide the wire and forget about it. Then it quit working a few months ago.
So I buy a new car,,, Nothing fancy just a 2018 Ford Fusion for daily grind work. I drive 90 miles a day round trip in the car or on the Harley. So I think,,, lets get a dash cam for the car and some action cams for the bike. It's getting quite harry out there now days. I haven't a clue how most drivers now days even qualify to get a drivers lic. It's evident they haven't a clue how to drive.
So the first cam was a YI Smart Dash Cam. Great video quality, Simple,,, does what they claim. Then dead in 3 hours. Well so much for YI,, won't be buying any of there action cams. China junk #1 down.
I guess it's time now to do more research. Waist hours and hours reading, watching videos. I mean a insane amount of time going into this research. Maybe I'm not very smart. So I order a Viofo A119S and a A119 Pro. If I like one or the other or both I will put one in the front,, one in the back. Lets just see? They both were trash. Out of focus, hot pixels, Complete garbage. So more China junk goes back for a refund.
So I do more research,,, does it really have to be this hard? So frustrated I went to Best Buy and bought a Thinkware F800, F800R and there way over priced hardwire kit. I turn myself into a pretzel installing the hardwire kit. Stuff cables and stick the cams up and it's installed. Update the firmware and off I go into the absolute worse wifi, hotspot and cloud setup I have ever seen in my life. It's all slow, clunky and very amature. It hasn't over heated yet in the hot Okie sun. And it seems to have at least passable video and as slow and horribly done as the interface is,,, it sort of works. For $420 or so dollars including tax it's really a let down. I'm going to keep the junk because my time is worth far more than the time needed to pull all the cams out and all the cabling and return the junk. I will never buy another Thinkware product again.
At this point I don't think I will very buy another dash cam again.
Looking in on this industry from the outside,,, it's just a bunch of over priced pacific rim crap!