Hi, I'm Steve and new to the forum and dash cams in general but it's been great fun reading all the info over the last few days, this is a great resource for new users.
I have been looking in particular at the Viofo A119 series of dash cams as they look good value but also seem high quality based on what I've read here. I am going on a road trip through Europe in June and I want to record our journey along the way so ideally want a cam that can take a large memory card, for example 256GB and I read somewhere on here that the Viofo A119 has been tested to this size. I plan to download the footage to an external HDD along the way at each stop also.
I previously bought a £32 cam off amazon branded orskey that was ok and I managed to get it working with my 256GB card but it only recorded up to 148GB worth of footage and didn't have a GPS. I guess it would be regarded as junk on this forum? That's when I started looking for advice and found here.
I ordered a Viofo A119S V2 on amazon which was a warehouse deal that looked like a bargain. £66 for the cam with GPS. Now it's turned up and it is missing the GPS part. The cam looks in good condition apart from this and I know I can get a GPS off ebay as a fix but now I am questioning whether I should just return it or not. I have read a lot over the last week and I went for the A119S because I will be driving mostly in day but there will be some night time driving which I also don't want to miss out on.
I guess I'm looking for advice on whether I should return this cam to amazon because it didn't come with the GPS but also whether I should change my mind and go for the A119 or the A119 pro as an alternative. Is the difference between them really that great? I read custom firmware can make a difference also. Has anyone else done a similar trip across Europe and filmed it using any of these cams? I'm travelling from UK to Bulgaria via Paris roughly 3 days of driving up to 12 hours or so each day. I will be doing it over 6 days stopping for a day in each stop. I'm really interested in any advice people can give.
I have been looking in particular at the Viofo A119 series of dash cams as they look good value but also seem high quality based on what I've read here. I am going on a road trip through Europe in June and I want to record our journey along the way so ideally want a cam that can take a large memory card, for example 256GB and I read somewhere on here that the Viofo A119 has been tested to this size. I plan to download the footage to an external HDD along the way at each stop also.
I previously bought a £32 cam off amazon branded orskey that was ok and I managed to get it working with my 256GB card but it only recorded up to 148GB worth of footage and didn't have a GPS. I guess it would be regarded as junk on this forum? That's when I started looking for advice and found here.
I ordered a Viofo A119S V2 on amazon which was a warehouse deal that looked like a bargain. £66 for the cam with GPS. Now it's turned up and it is missing the GPS part. The cam looks in good condition apart from this and I know I can get a GPS off ebay as a fix but now I am questioning whether I should just return it or not. I have read a lot over the last week and I went for the A119S because I will be driving mostly in day but there will be some night time driving which I also don't want to miss out on.
I guess I'm looking for advice on whether I should return this cam to amazon because it didn't come with the GPS but also whether I should change my mind and go for the A119 or the A119 pro as an alternative. Is the difference between them really that great? I read custom firmware can make a difference also. Has anyone else done a similar trip across Europe and filmed it using any of these cams? I'm travelling from UK to Bulgaria via Paris roughly 3 days of driving up to 12 hours or so each day. I will be doing it over 6 days stopping for a day in each stop. I'm really interested in any advice people can give.