Solaris
New Member
Hi,
I'm looking for a dash cam with an integrated rear facing camera designed to capture the road behind the car, rather than the interior like a lot of the units I have found seem to do (so called taxi cams).
My car is a soft top convertible so mounting a separate rear camera on the rear window is out of the question. When down the roof doesn't retract into the body of the car which also rules out mounting something on the back headrests/seats as it would be obscured when the roof is open.
So far I have come across the Nextbase 3/4/522 models with add the option of adding on a telephoto rear facing camera, however I have two small concerns. Firstly there seem to be quite a few teething issues with the new Nextbase models, especially with the add on camera modules. I expect this will be fixed in time with firmware updates, however it isn't encouraging. Secondly the add on module seems to be located on the right hand side of the camera, making it hard to tuck behind the rear view mirror on a right hand drive car. It would either be quite off centre to the left of the rear view mirror on the passenger side, or slightly in the way on the drivers side blocking a sensor on the rear view mirror and, potentially getting in the way of the 'don't place items in this part of the windscreen' rules in the UK, although in practice I have no idea if this is an actual real issue or would be fine in reality.
Does anyone have any experience of the above? I'm wondering if there is an alternative product out there I may have overlooked or if the Nextbase is the only option apart from going for just a front facing camera.
I'm looking for a dash cam with an integrated rear facing camera designed to capture the road behind the car, rather than the interior like a lot of the units I have found seem to do (so called taxi cams).
My car is a soft top convertible so mounting a separate rear camera on the rear window is out of the question. When down the roof doesn't retract into the body of the car which also rules out mounting something on the back headrests/seats as it would be obscured when the roof is open.
So far I have come across the Nextbase 3/4/522 models with add the option of adding on a telephoto rear facing camera, however I have two small concerns. Firstly there seem to be quite a few teething issues with the new Nextbase models, especially with the add on camera modules. I expect this will be fixed in time with firmware updates, however it isn't encouraging. Secondly the add on module seems to be located on the right hand side of the camera, making it hard to tuck behind the rear view mirror on a right hand drive car. It would either be quite off centre to the left of the rear view mirror on the passenger side, or slightly in the way on the drivers side blocking a sensor on the rear view mirror and, potentially getting in the way of the 'don't place items in this part of the windscreen' rules in the UK, although in practice I have no idea if this is an actual real issue or would be fine in reality.
Does anyone have any experience of the above? I'm wondering if there is an alternative product out there I may have overlooked or if the Nextbase is the only option apart from going for just a front facing camera.
