HonestReview
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So there's a lady I know who is an acquaintance in her 60s and not tech savvy. I told her about Dash Cameras and shown her videos from my daily driving. Well she told me how her family member convinced her to get one but she never installed it. It was a Rexing (not something I recommended).
Well, I offer to be nice and hook it up. She doesn't want the trim removed and didn't have a hardwire kit. So I simply ran wires along headliner and alongside A-Pillar and terminated into her 12V Socket. I set the resolution to 4K. I tried to tell her what Memory Card to get, but she didn't listen. Picked up 128GB card where I tried to tell her get a 256GB.
As luck has it, some guy BACKED into her car while she was exiting a parking lot. Because I had it set to 4K, it used 500MB a file. Anyway, 3 days later she says can you pull off the video....Sigh, well you know where this is going. The card had filled up and overwrote the video. G-Sensor to Medium didn't pick up impact and save the file. I'm guessing he was going pretty slow as mostly front bumper damage. But still, it was an impact.
Anyway, I changed resolution to 1080P so she has greater than a days worth of recording. I guess I should have set it to a lower resolution, but had put to highest, since you want detail if someone is hitting you!
Bummer. Luckily guy was honest and gave her his information (not sure she's verified). But the sad part, she didn't reach out to me when it happened or ask what to do (pull card or yank power) to prevent overwriting.
Ah well live and learn. Thought I'd share.
Well, I offer to be nice and hook it up. She doesn't want the trim removed and didn't have a hardwire kit. So I simply ran wires along headliner and alongside A-Pillar and terminated into her 12V Socket. I set the resolution to 4K. I tried to tell her what Memory Card to get, but she didn't listen. Picked up 128GB card where I tried to tell her get a 256GB.
As luck has it, some guy BACKED into her car while she was exiting a parking lot. Because I had it set to 4K, it used 500MB a file. Anyway, 3 days later she says can you pull off the video....Sigh, well you know where this is going. The card had filled up and overwrote the video. G-Sensor to Medium didn't pick up impact and save the file. I'm guessing he was going pretty slow as mostly front bumper damage. But still, it was an impact.
Anyway, I changed resolution to 1080P so she has greater than a days worth of recording. I guess I should have set it to a lower resolution, but had put to highest, since you want detail if someone is hitting you!
Bummer. Luckily guy was honest and gave her his information (not sure she's verified). But the sad part, she didn't reach out to me when it happened or ask what to do (pull card or yank power) to prevent overwriting.
Ah well live and learn. Thought I'd share.