Looking for the Best Front & Rear Dash Cam with Notification

[BFerman77]

Hi all,

I'm in the market for a reliable front and rear dash cam setup and would love to hear your recommendations.

I'm looking for a dash cam that ideally includes the following:

Front and rear coverage (ideally with good video quality, especially at night)

Notifications (e.g., push alerts for events or impact detection, especially while parked)

Hardwiring support (for continuous power/parking mode)

Good onboard or expandable storage (preferably support for high-capacity SD cards or cloud backup)

Solid mobile app (not clunky, decent UX, and works well with notifications/cloud)


It doesn’t need to be the cheapest — I’m more interested in quality, reliability, and usability.

Bonus points for:

Easy installation (or hardwiring kits available)

Good customer service

Well-reviewed long-term performance


Any first-hand experiences or advice would be appreciated. Happy to hear both budget-friendly and premium suggestions if they offer good value.

Thanks in advance!

[guyvert1]

No idea on budget, but take a look at these : https://blackvue.co.uk/

[gmaz]

Buy a Tesla

Or Blackvue kit that will be about £600 total if you need notifications etc. using a CM100LTE connectivity module, and Power Magic Ultra B-130X or B-112 battery

Edited by gmaz on Wednesday 17th September 14:05

[donkmeister]

No cloud services, but the Viofo A329 series of cams wins all the day and night vision comparisons that I've seen, against all the other brands.

They can write to an external SSD, meaning if you are concerned about someone pinching your camera/card and taking your footage... Well... Just find somewhere sensible to put the SSD! It also means you can have many TB of footage before overwriting begins. Parking mode is decent, I have mine set to continuously record at low bitrate and get about 12 hours before it shuts down. I'd get a lot more if I had the camera go to sleep and wake up for impacts, but I've never trusted that feature on any dashcam since an old no name one started recording a car park prang about two seconds too late. I have the power supply set to the highest shutdown voltage and no lithium pack.

Apparently there's a beta feature to upload to an FTP server when it's in range of base WiFi (i.e. your home network for most people) but I can't find it.

[donkmeister]

gmaz said:

Buy a Tesla

I'm in no rush to buy a wkPanzer but the dashcam feature is good. I've looked into adding under mirror cams to protect the sides of my car (after someone nicked a side trim... Seriously?!) but there were no good options.