Looking for one for my wife's car, maybe mine too. Looking for something easy to use, we are not techie people.

Recommendation?

I've been rear ended 3 times and side swiped once in the last three months. Two different vehicles and my dash cams caught none of this. They did at least show I was driving appropriately when hit.

Also, due to the long hood and height of my truck relative to regular cars, the dash cam in it doesn't get license plates all that well.

I'd look at front and rear cameras. My dash cams are two years old now and there's newer models out I have no experience with. I have a Street Guardian in my Focus ST and a Viofo 119S in my F350.

Blackboxmycar.
I have Thinkware for my Tacoma- front and rear.
Rio for Prius.
Check out website. Very informative.

Second nod for Blackbox my car. I’ve given them a fair amount of business. Thinkware and Blackvue are the two best IMO. I’ve had good luck with both.

Front and rear needed IMO.

I put the Viofo 129 in the wife's car. Hardwired, after reading previous advice on the forum here. It is set to run even with the car is parked... it monitors the car battery voltage and if the voltage drops enough to endanger starting the car it shuts it self off. With a big healthy battery in her car I don't think it ever shuts off.

Just last week as she was picking up a grandkid at school another kid ran up to him unprevoked and punched him right in the side of the head! He wasn't hurt, just kid play it seems, but I wanted to see if it was caught on the dash cam as my wife said it it happened right in front of her. It didn't... she had driven the truck that day instead of her car

I guess I need to buy a couple more!

Street Guardian. Get it off amazon. I’ve been very happy.

https://dashboardcamerareviews.com/

My Garmin DriveAssist 50 has been flawless.

For ease of use the Garmin dashcams are hard to beat.

Another Street Guardian fan here.

I ended up with Thinkware in my work trucks. Aside from video quality, I was also looking for a few specific features. I'm sure others do it as well, but I can transfer video to my Iphone in seconds. This allows me to save it separate from the camera, e-mail it, etc.

I have the Viofo A129 GPS Dual Lens Dash Cam. It's the #1 recommended budget dual camera on DashCamTalk.

One of the reasons that I upgraded to a unit with both front and rear cameras (previously had a StreetGuardian front only camera) was to increase the chance of recording someone sideswiping me (other is to record someone rear ending me).

Viofo here as well. Mine are older so don't have front/rear coverage.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
Street Guardian. Get it off amazon. I’ve been very happy.

https://dashboardcamerareviews.com/

+1 for Street Guardian.

It's not the cheapest dash cam around, but I've had several now and it is, by far, the best.

-Rob

Another vote for BlackBoxMyCar

Been using Blackvue dual camera dashcams for about 10 years with good results. I have an extra bettery backup installed so mine will run 48 hours after you turn the key off without tapping the car battery. Keeps recording when I am parked.

I just helped my buddy set one up in his car. He bought a Nextbase 522 from Bestbuy. We set it up on the temporary mount and wiring just to get a feel for it. It worked fine. It shoots one minute incremental videos until it fills the SD card. It then overwrites the oldest files. It synced with his iPhone and will also work with Alexa but we couldn’t get that set up correctly. It has a few other features but I’m not sure how it compares to some of the others mentioned here. The video looks good when played back on his MacBook. ETA: It supports an optional plug in rear facing camera.

I've had a few models over the last few years. I finally decided I really wanted to have a dual camera setup front and rear but not the rear that looked into the interior but rear out the back - and have been using the Rexing V1P Front and Rear and am loving it. The app works like a champ and you can even connect and see the camera from the app real time. Its wide angle as well for the front so I had to move it away from the bulky rear view mirror mount in the Grand Cherokee but other than that its working well. The rear view camera has an excellent picture in the day but night time unless its pretty well lit doesn't pick up much (and I'm okay with that based on where I drive)

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Originally posted by tiwimon:
I've had a few models over the last few years. I finally decided I really wanted to have a dual camera setup front and rear but not the rear that looked into the interior but rear out the back - and have been using the Rexing V1P Front and Rear and am loving it. The app works like a champ and you can even connect and see the camera from the app real time. Its wide angle as well for the front so I had to move it away from the bulky rear view mirror mount in the Grand Cherokee but other than that its working well. The rear view camera has an excellent picture in the day but night time unless its pretty well lit doesn't pick up much (and I'm okay with that based on where I drive)

Just goes to show you... I loved my Rexing V1 too... until it failed. Then I loved the replacement unit they sent me.... until it failed. Then I loved the second replacement unit they sent me... until it failed.

They were very friendly and responsive - great customer service each time, and just as quick (although disappointed) to refund my original purchase price when I told them I wasn't interested in trying a 3rd replacement unit.

That's when I bought my Street Guardian (for 3x the price) and haven't looked back.

YMMV.

-Rob

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Originally posted by BurtonRW:

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Originally posted by tiwimon:
I've had a few models over the last few years. I finally decided I really wanted to have a dual camera setup front and rear but not the rear that looked into the interior but rear out the back - and have been using the Rexing V1P Front and Rear and am loving it. The app works like a champ and you can even connect and see the camera from the app real time. Its wide angle as well for the front so I had to move it away from the bulky rear view mirror mount in the Grand Cherokee but other than that its working well. The rear view camera has an excellent picture in the day but night time unless its pretty well lit doesn't pick up much (and I'm okay with that based on where I drive)

Just goes to show you... I loved my Rexing V1 too... until it failed. Then I loved the replacement unit they sent me.... until it failed. Then I loved the second replacement unit they sent me... until it failed.

They were very friendly and responsive - great customer service each time, and just as quick (although disappointed) to refund my original purchase price when I told them I wasn't interested in trying a 3rd replacement unit.

That's when I bought my Street Guardian (for 3x the price) and haven't looked back.

YMMV.

-Rob

Yikes! I sure hope that doesn't happen to me as I just bought another one recently for wife's car. Hopefully, your two were just back to back bad luck cause I really do like these. Besides it has a good rating on amazon right now and that is the only real measure these days for a purchase, right?!

I have a Rexing V1 on my truck, have it set up to come on and go off with the ignition. Easy install, and so far has been dead reliable. I would buy another one if doing it over.

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