Looking for reliable dashcam

[casualdriver]

Hi,
I am looking for good, reliable dashcam. Most important part - wont corrupt any files or stop to record. Apparently thats a problem with Nextbase. Would be nice to have automatic syncing with phone and loop recording - but I believe its standard? Budget - I am willing to pay for quality cam, obviously I will prefer older model as I don't need 4K for - god forbid - insurance claims or some bells and whistles.

[CarCrazyDad]

Nextbase does all that... we have 2x Nextbase cameras in the car and never have any issues with them failing to record (that we are aware of)

I believe most of the issues are to do with poor quality SD cards, you need high speed cards and most of them from Amazon are wrong , too low spec or counterfeit

[hellorent]

Likewise I've had a basic next base model for about 4 yrs & never had a problem I use a Integral card in it.

[vikingaero]

I've got a myriad of dashcams in all our family vehicles - about a dozen vehicles with Blackvues, Viofos, Garmin Mini for rear view and Yi.

Most NextBases have been binned because of file corruption and internal battery failure.

I have the original Yi Dashcam (the £30 one sadly no longer available) in 3 cars and it is utterly stable - oldest one is around 5 years old. My favourite dashcam at the moment is the Yi Nightscape dashcam - currently £53 on speshal offer:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=yi+nightscape+dash+ca...

It has enhanced night mode, as good resolution as the £3-400 Blackvues and the icing on the cake is the capacitor rather than a battery. As each older cam fails, I'm replacing them with Yi's.

Edit to add that I only buy memory cards from Amazon if says sold and fulfilled by Amazon. If it says sold by jesgfkjgf and fulfilled by Amazon it's probably a 1Gb card with a fake root file pretending to be 128Gb.

Edited by vikingaero on Monday 11th April 14:02

[joropug]

vikingaero said:

I've got a myriad of dashcams in all our family vehicles - about a dozen vehicles with Blackvues, Viofos, Garmin Mini for rear view and Yi.

Most NextBases have been binned because of file corruption and internal battery failure.

I have the original Yi Dashcam (the £30 one sadly no longer available) in 3 cars and it is utterly stable - oldest one is around 5 years old. My favourite dashcam at the moment is the Yi Nightscape dashcam - currently £53 on speshal offer:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=yi+nightscape+dash+ca...

It has enhanced night mode, as good resolution as the £3-400 Blackvues and the icing on the cake is the capacitor rather than a battery. As each older cam fails, I'm replacing them with Yi's.

Edit to add that I only buy memory cards from Amazon if says sold and fulfilled by Amazon. If it says sold by jesgfkjgf and fulfilled by Amazon it's probably a 1Gb card with a fake root file pretending to be 128Gb.

Edited by vikingaero on Monday 11th April 14:02

Massive backer of Yi - I too have the £35-40 camera - 4 years old and hasn't missed a beat, same SD card, can download via wifi straight to phone via their app which works great. Picture quality decent in all light too.

Think I have created 5 or so other sales of that camera via recommendation and everyone is really pleased with theirs too.

Was gutted when I needed one for my Wife's car that they had stopped making them, got an Apeman flush style one which looks great and almost OEM but trickier to download footage. Looks like the nightscape one will be next on the list when either of the current ones go.

[TAHodgson]

Never had any issues with Thinkware or Blackvue. Both have various budget options, right the way up to 4k Live view things.
Currently using Thinkware U1000 F&R.