Hello all!
I asked a very similar question to this on reddit a couple of days ago, but I want to get some advice from this forum as well.
I been wanting to have a dashcam for a while now to record car events I attend, but being a college student makes it seem to be an unneeded expense for me. However, I was recently involved in a very small accident which I was blamed for, even though I wasn’t at fault. Because I have no evidence this is being considered a word for word situation and I might have to pay for my car damage out of my pocket. This has infuriated me and to attempt to avoid a similar situation in the future I’m looking to purchase a dashcam for my car.
What I’m looking for is a decent dashcam and the lower the price the better, since of course my budget limits me. I was expecting to spend no more than ~$80, but it seems that the cameras recommended in that price range like the G1W-C, and the A118C all seem to have a fair amount of bad rep or can’t sustain themselves in high/low temperatures. I live in a place where winters are fairly cold, but barely ever go below 0 and summers go as high as 90F. I read about the G1W-C and it seems that the capacitor allows it to hold itself in the cold weather, but I’ve heard many problems about memory cards, the weather still affecting it bellow 0 and a lot of stories about buyers receiving fake cameras.
So what would you all recommend for me? I know this is somewhat contradictory, since you get what you pay for, but I’m hoping for something with low rates of failure and hopefully good service from the vendor in case I need to return. Again I don’t want to spend too much money on this, but am willing to go a bit above my budget to invest in a decent dashcam.
Thanks for any advice given!
I asked a very similar question to this on reddit a couple of days ago, but I want to get some advice from this forum as well.
I been wanting to have a dashcam for a while now to record car events I attend, but being a college student makes it seem to be an unneeded expense for me. However, I was recently involved in a very small accident which I was blamed for, even though I wasn’t at fault. Because I have no evidence this is being considered a word for word situation and I might have to pay for my car damage out of my pocket. This has infuriated me and to attempt to avoid a similar situation in the future I’m looking to purchase a dashcam for my car.
What I’m looking for is a decent dashcam and the lower the price the better, since of course my budget limits me. I was expecting to spend no more than ~$80, but it seems that the cameras recommended in that price range like the G1W-C, and the A118C all seem to have a fair amount of bad rep or can’t sustain themselves in high/low temperatures. I live in a place where winters are fairly cold, but barely ever go below 0 and summers go as high as 90F. I read about the G1W-C and it seems that the capacitor allows it to hold itself in the cold weather, but I’ve heard many problems about memory cards, the weather still affecting it bellow 0 and a lot of stories about buyers receiving fake cameras.
So what would you all recommend for me? I know this is somewhat contradictory, since you get what you pay for, but I’m hoping for something with low rates of failure and hopefully good service from the vendor in case I need to return. Again I don’t want to spend too much money on this, but am willing to go a bit above my budget to invest in a decent dashcam.
Thanks for any advice given!