Hello all,
I've recently got into dash cam after realizing its usefulness. Unfortunately I did not do as much research as I should the first time around since my ebay-bought G1W crapped out on me just after a few months. So now I am in need of a replacement.
As I was reading stories of people catching unscrupulous dealerships/repair shops/etc. doing things to people's cars while getting recorded on dash cams...it seems they are getting wiser. I'm now reading stories of people saying that the repair shops/dealers/etc. are now turning off the dash cams in customer cars before they drive/work on the car.
So most dashcams have a cigarette power plug (easily taken out, are there "locking cigarette power adapters?"), or a power button on the camera body that may be used to manually turn off the camera.
So what can be done to eliminate others who may have to drive your car (repair shops, dealerships, valets, friends/family, etc.) from manually turning off the camera? I am also going to look into hard-wiring, of course, but not sure about if there are cameras that cannot be manually powered/button-ed off? (at least not too easily...)
I've recently got into dash cam after realizing its usefulness. Unfortunately I did not do as much research as I should the first time around since my ebay-bought G1W crapped out on me just after a few months. So now I am in need of a replacement.
As I was reading stories of people catching unscrupulous dealerships/repair shops/etc. doing things to people's cars while getting recorded on dash cams...it seems they are getting wiser. I'm now reading stories of people saying that the repair shops/dealers/etc. are now turning off the dash cams in customer cars before they drive/work on the car.
So most dashcams have a cigarette power plug (easily taken out, are there "locking cigarette power adapters?"), or a power button on the camera body that may be used to manually turn off the camera.
So what can be done to eliminate others who may have to drive your car (repair shops, dealerships, valets, friends/family, etc.) from manually turning off the camera? I am also going to look into hard-wiring, of course, but not sure about if there are cameras that cannot be manually powered/button-ed off? (at least not too easily...)