Primus
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Just had a new dash cam fitted, as my old one packed in, I had a mi witness front and rear camera, professionally fitted when I bought my new car about eighteen months ago, the guy who fitted it came recommended from mi witness, he swapped the unit out from my old car, I’ve had it about four years now, I first became aware that there was a problem after my wife tried to show me an incident that happened to her on her travels ( nothing serious) , the camera hadn’t recorded anything, so I re formatted the sd card and all seemed ok. Three days before I was due to travel to Cornwall for our hols, I got a voice message saying front camera not working, I tried everything, formatting the card, unplugging it and leaving it overnight, nothing worked, now, if you’re like me, once you’ve had a dash cam you feel vulnerable without one, so after a bit of research I went for a nextbase 522, with rear camera, from halfords, and they would fit it, now the young lad who fitted it, ( and did a good job) showed me photos from the previous install, the installer had spliced into the wiring loom, instead of taking it to the fuse box, (yes it did have inline fuses) but I’m sure it didn’t have the proper smart power adapter, but will have to check when I get home, there was also a wire that had just been cut and left, ( no idea why), so the lad rejoined it, also the glovebox is broken, I seem to remember that the guy said he’d had trouble removing / refitting it, so I know Halfords haven’t done it, if I’d have had more time I would have maybe gone for a Blackvue or thinkware, as I’m not keen on cams with screens, but to be fair the nextbase is reasonably discreet, but haven’t had time to play with it yet, would have gone for another mi witness but I think they’ve gone out of business as the site hasn’t been updated for ages..sorry for the mammoth post, folks, ...