Best Dash Cams for under £100

[cigold]

Hi all,

it me again..

I'm looking to buy a good budget friendly cam for my new car please.

I have had a look at Halfords and the cams are over £100 with the cheapest front and rear camera £129 and then £80 for fitting.

I personally think it is too much, please your suggestions will be highly appreciated.

[Matt_T]

Good timing... I need advice too.

Are Garmins good:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-140-degree-Control...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-140-degree-Control...

Edited by Matt_T on Tuesday 18th February 00:04

[Andy665]

cigold said:

Hi all,

it me again..

I'm looking to buy a good budget friendly cam for my new car please.

I have had a look at Halfords and the cams are over £100 with the cheapest front and rear camera £129 and then £80 for fitting.

I personally think it is too much, please your suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Iiwey from Amazon, have various models across our fleet- all have been completely reliable - much more so than the other more expensive I have had over the years.

[Lefty]

You can get apps for your phone so for the £10 or so for a dash mount and £10-20 for the app you could have a great solution. I haven’t tried them but interested to see if anyone else has?

[vikingaero]

There are some reputable Chineseum brands on Amazon for dashcams:

70mai
Red Tiger
Viofo
Vantrue

I'd rather buy a bash-the-keyboard-named Chinese no brand than Nextbase.

[valiant]

Got a Road angel Halo bullet type.

Works well, decent app and got it for around £60 new off eBay from a store and it's been faultless so far.

Basic model but it does the job

[Bazil Bush]

Got a couple of Orskey dash cams (Amazon) for wife’s and daughter’s cars and they’ve both been pretty good .

Currently on there for £40 a pop.

Got the hardwire kits too, currently £17 each and wired them in myself (Adam and a Fiesta).

Loads of how to’s on YouTube and it’s pretty straightforward.

[Matt_T]

Bazil Bush said:

Got a couple of Orskey dash cams (Amazon) for wife’s and daughter’s cars and they’ve both been pretty good .

Currently on there for £40 a pop.

Got the hardwire kits too, currently £17 each and wired them in myself (Adam and a Fiesta).

Loads of how to’s on YouTube and it’s pretty straightforward.

The hardwire is just for power?

[fourstardan]

I bought a used Nextbase on eBay for about 30 quid, does the job for me.

[Dave.]

Lefty said:

You can get apps for your phone so for the £10 or so for a dash mount and £10-20 for the app you could have a great solution. I haven’t tried them but interested to see if anyone else has?

There was noise of Google implementing this as part of their "personalised safety" app.

Not sure what happened to it.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/17/23726967/google...

Edited by Dave. on Tuesday 18th February 21:07

[Bazil Bush]

Matt_T said:

Bazil Bush said:

Got a couple of Orskey dash cams (Amazon) for wife’s and daughter’s cars and they’ve both been pretty good .

Currently on there for £40 a pop.

Got the hardwire kits too, currently £17 each and wired them in myself (Adam and a Fiesta).

Loads of how to’s on YouTube and it’s pretty straightforward.

The hardwire is just for power?

Yes, just for power to unit.

Powers up on ignition and stops the need to be powered off the auxiliary socket (fag lighter socket if you’re old school like me).

Keeps wires nice and tidy too as you dress them into head liner.
Again not too difficult and makes it all look that bit better.

[cigold]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I shall be reviewing all and then make a decision. Thank you!

[RotorRambler]

The Garmin Dash Cam 47’s are £79.99 on Amazon at the moment.
Have one in my wife’s car already, ordered one for mine, which arrives today.
Seem pretty decent for the money.
A lot of inbuilt bings & bongs which can easily be switched off (my car does that safety stuff anyway..)
I have a Garmin Mini2, which i’ll move to the rear on mine.
Apparantly you can merge the views on the app, will try that!

Edited by RotorRambler on Wednesday 26th February 10:00