ghpalias
New Member
This is my first foray into the dashcam world and I'm interested in a decent quality dash cam-would prefer dual but that's probably out of my price range at the moment. I'd really like a dash cam that has a good-to-great parking mode because I park daily in a garage with extremely narrow spots and have gotten many scratches of varying intensity as a result. I'd like something that will record if someone opens their door into mine, side swipes my car when pulling out, etc. I can back into the spots so just having a front camera should be fine, but I'm concerned that the lower-level cameras with parking mode have a lag that wouldn't capture the offending person/car. It seems like buffered parking mode would be the way to go but again, not sure if any exist in my price range (hopefuly $120 or less). I don't need CPS or a screen.
I'm also not especially tech- or car-saavy so I'd consider buying a separate battery for running the cam when in parking mode so I don't have to hardwire it into my car (this seems very complicated and I remember how much trouble my ex-boyfriend had installing just a simple front-facing camera on his car, and he was very tech- and car-saavy). I'm sick of people scratching up my car and not leaving notes (it seems to be common practice in this garage; I'm not the only one who deals with this). Any recommendations for particular cameras and/or whether the separate battery makes sense for my purposes? Thanks very much.
I'm also not especially tech- or car-saavy so I'd consider buying a separate battery for running the cam when in parking mode so I don't have to hardwire it into my car (this seems very complicated and I remember how much trouble my ex-boyfriend had installing just a simple front-facing camera on his car, and he was very tech- and car-saavy). I'm sick of people scratching up my car and not leaving notes (it seems to be common practice in this garage; I'm not the only one who deals with this). Any recommendations for particular cameras and/or whether the separate battery makes sense for my purposes? Thanks very much.