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Dashcam

3.6K views 6 replies 6 participants last post by  Hobekhnu  
I (and a few other participants here) have installed the FitCamX. Mine is front-facing only, but I believe they do make a combo unit now. There are a few reviews and discussion about this unit here:


The selling point for me is how stealthy it is. Unless you really look for it, you don't realize there's a dashcam.

I still plan to put something else in the back and I see no advantage to integrating them. Again, I'd want something inconspicuous.

Funny thing about a dashcam, is you never know when you'll need it, so it's great to just have it there for you all the time. My neighbor's house was burglarized, and there was a ~2 hour window in which it could have happened. My husband's car was parked on the street in "parking mode" (it's a dead-end so we don't get much traffic). The cops were here taking the report for our neighbor, asking us if we saw anything (we didn't) but we thought, "hey! maybe there's something on the dashcam" and sure enough, his dashcam had picked up the motion when a car---the only car in the 2-hour period---drove by. The cops ran the tag # and after a whole lot of good detective work and search warrants, they busted a ring of burglary/fraud/cell phone scam that crossed 3 states!

Whenever people are reporting crimes on Nextdoor or Ring and they're trying to find out if anyone saw anything, I'm always chiming in with, "tell people to check their dashcams!"