Cheap dashcam recommendations

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

What's a good cheap one that people recommend? As much as I'd love to get another Blackvue and go full bore, they're a little pricey from what I can see.

[The_Penguin]

I'm still happy with the old faithful G1WC.

[dj_rice]

My G1WC has been working flawless for the past 3-4 years. No issues.

[Mitsu3000gt]

There are many sub-$100 dash cams on Amazon (including th G1WC) that have hundreds of near perfect reviews. I would start there and you have 30 days to return it if you don't like it.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01N3TS5OS/ref=sxnav_sxwds-bovbp-i_m_2?pf_rd_m=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&pf_rd_p=6730270682817753526&pd_rd_wg=byE6p&pf_rd_r=JQ1GSTZQK1W5QKVW8ECS&pf_rd_s=desktop-sx-nav&pf_rd_t=301&pd_rd_i=B01N3TS5OS&pd_rd_w=dvupc&pf_rd_i=dash+cam&pd_rd_r=43074175-0d6e-4c4c-83d3-d93e0baefe91&ie=UTF8&qid=1533226307&sr=2

https://www.amazon.ca/Spy-Tec-Recorder-Dashboard-Authentic/dp/B00KZ0J452/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1533226325&sr=1-2&keywords=g1wc

[Asian_defender]

If you're handy with a soldering iron and want to solder in an RTC go G1WS, my sister uses this without an RTC as she drives her car everyday
they have them for $30 on amazon right now

https://www.amazon.ca/Recording-Recorder-G-Sensor-Capabilities-NT96650/dp/B01N6M7G9Q/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1533227218&sr=8-4&keywords=g1ws

otherwise go for the YI
https://www.amazon.ca/YI-1080P60-Dashboard-G-Sensor-Recording/dp/B01C89GCHU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1533227283&sr=1-1&keywords=yi+dash+cam

[tonytiger55]

Have any of you had issues with the G1WC working on cold start when its -25c..? Mine says memory card error until the cabin temperature goes up a little..

[The_Penguin]

Have any of you had issues with the G1WC working on cold start when its -25c..? Mine says memory card error until the cabin temperature goes up a little..

Haven't noticed. Could it be the card?

[Tik-Tok]

There are many sub-$100 dash cams on Amazon (including th G1WC) that have hundreds of near perfect reviews.

LOL, Amazon reviews are useless for Chinese sellers. If you give a mediocre or bad review, they bribe you until you change it. I'm being hounded weekly because of a 3 star review I gave of a cheap shitty Bluetooth mouse.

[R-Audi]

Viofo A119 has been great for me..

[Mitsu3000gt]

LOL, Amazon reviews are useless for Chinese sellers. If you give a mediocre or bad review, they bribe you until you change it. I'm being hounded weekly because of a 3 star review I gave of a cheap shitty Bluetooth mouse.

Do you honestly think every Anker, Aukey, Yi, etc. etc. item has all fake reviews?

I have about 20 multi-item orders per month from Amazon, I literally buy everything from them. All kinds of products and sellers, I don't discriminate. I don't doubt it happens occasionally but I have never once been asked for a fake review and I have left a lot of mediocre or 1-star reviews. Based on my experience anyway, I don't believe it happens to the extent you are suggesting when some items from Chinese sellers have hundreds, sometimes thousands, of positive reviews. Sometimes a product is just good - I've yet to be let down by something that has a high number of positive reviews.

Here are some Chinese sellers, do you honestly think they hound thousands of people into leaving 5 star reviews?

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerLine-Micro-USB-Smartphones/dp/B012VZ7MUM/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1533237710&sr=8-4&keywords=anker+cable

https://www.amazon.com/YI-1080P60-Dashboard-G-Sensor-Recording/dp/B01C89GCHU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1533237754&sr=8-3&keywords=yi+dash+camera

https://www.amazon.com/Rexing-Dashboard-Recorder-G-Sensor-Recording/dp/B00X528FNE/ref=sr_1_3?s=car&ie=UTF8&qid=1533237787&sr=1-3&keywords=dash+cam

[dj_rice]

Have any of you had issues with the G1WC working on cold start when its -25c..? Mine says memory card error until the cabin temperature goes up a little..

No issues with mine. Could be your card. I have a Adata one in it.

[tonytiger55]

I think it could be. Worked fine in the first few years. This last winter when it was super cold it would happen for 5-10 minutes until the car warmed up slightly.

[R-Audi]

I have been offered refunds if I remove poor reviews...

[k1l4m]

I have been happy with my Thinkware F50. Decent quality for $99, nice and compact too which I like, similar size to BlackVue.

[relyt92]

A118/A119 if you can get it on sale. I've run an A118C in my car and in the girlfriends for a couple years, both were bought in the ~$60 range on a sale. Great low profile cameras. I'd hate having any of these suction cupped ones on my windshield.

[Boosted131]

Can someone recommend a good quality reasonable priced dash cam? Might get the parents one for Christmas.

[Thaco]

Can someone recommend a good quality reasonable priced dash cam? Might get the parents one for Christmas.

the voifo 119s is good, amazon prime for $130, will be here for xmas

[Kijho]

I tested the Voifo A129 Dashcam this week, and put it up side by side against my Blackvue DR900S (4K). I believe this is the first 2 channel Voifo (front/ rear). Setup is quite easy (you will need an extra fuse tap and some modifying to hard wire though)

https://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Voifo+A129

I'll post some example footage by this weekend here in this thread and you can see some quality, and I'll show some of the same trip of my DR900S.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

I tested the Voifo A129 Dashcam this week, and put it up side by side against my Blackvue DR900S (4K). I believe this is the first 2 channel Voifo (front/ rear). Setup is quite easy (you will need an extra fuse tap and some modifying to hard wire though)

https://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Voifo+A129

I'll post some example footage by this weekend here in this thread and you can see some quality, and I'll show some of the same trip of my DR900S.

What's your written review?

[Kijho]

Written TL;DR (BUT TO BE HONEST) is it's awesome, super awesome, like personally I would go with a Voifo cam over a really expensive cam ($600+) just based on my personal budgets. We used a CPL Filter on it too which made it even nicer. I haven't looked close at all the footage yet but from what I could see on the phone app viewer it was very impressive

That being said, I think it's like $250 (but that's because you get 2 cameras, 1 for the rear). If you just want front, I'd go A119. I've never owned one but I've just seen lots of footage of it and it's really good for the price.

[msommers]

Thanks for the feedback. Been telling the GF and Mom to get one of these, and at $250 or less it makes sense. Hard to seriously suggest these 500+ ones.