Best budget and premium Dashcams available in India with company fitting services

I bought by car in March 2022, Dashcam was bought in Feb 2022. So yes, you should have got a dashcam like yesterday. Please don't wait.
I have NOT done hardwiring of dashcam in my car and it is connected to the socket in front of car. I have the 70mai 500AS something which is 2 dashcams for front and rear. Have been using for more than 2.5 years and works fine.
The wires from front middle (where socket is) goes from passenger side below the carpet to the door and then along the side of door to the top and then to the middle of car windshield where we usually have IRVM.
Then my 2nd cable goes from front dashcam to one at the rear with the cable being stowed under the roof on the side of the car.

It is one time setup (until camera is working) and there are no ugly cables almost anywhere.

for the best ones, you need Starvis 2 sensor and preferably one that's powered by a capacitor battery and not lithium ion (summer temps are not good for lithium ion batteries specially since the dashcam would probably be exposed to direct sunlight even when parked).

unfortunately, only dashcams that fit the bill for these and have good reviews are the viofo ones which are really expensive, rest you have your usual pick but just dont compromise on the capacitor battery

If you're driving in the night, starvis 2 is a must. Otherwise the sensor gets washed out because of headlights resulting in very poor evidence (number plate readability).

The 70mai A510 is a good camera but is now nearly a year old, so 70mai might decide to give it a refresh. Nonetheless it is an excellent camera.

It is offered in both front and front+rear variants.

The one con the camera has is that it is battery powered and not supercap powered. I've only fitted it recently, so I am yet to see the effects of temperature on the battery.

Rear cameras are advisable, but not essential.

If you're not fitting a rear camera, the wiring is easily concealable.

From the windshield, under the headliner, all the way to the A pillar, through the A pillar, under the glovebox/steering console onto the centre console. The first few CM from the camera to the headliner and the last few CM from the centre console to the USB socket are the only visible points of wiring.

A point to note is that if your car has A pillar airbags, you will want to run the wire in the factory harness itself and never across the airbag.

Why?

Because you don't want a snapped wire hitting you at 300 miles an hour when the airbag deploys.


If you're doing a rear camera setup, the setup is similar all the way to the A pillar. Once you reach the A pillar, if your car doesn't have side/curtain airbags (the ones that detonate from the pillars), you can run them across the side of the roof tucking it inside the headliner.

However, if your car does have curtain airbags, the best choice is to run it along the botton of the door frame.

Check out these youtube channels:

Travel Tech for Camera Recommendations.

Chris Fix for fitting the dashcam.

Even if you're not confident of doing it yourself, watch the video and you can now supervise the guy who fits it and tell him exactly how you want it. Left to them, they will do it the easiest way possible which might not be the right way.

Some useful info here as well -
Perhaps merge the threads..

unless your car has airbags in the A pillar, wiring a single channel dashcam is easy, especially if you are planning to use the 12v socket. Plenty of youtube videos out there.
I have a Qubo dashcam. It's not the best, but does ok. As others have mentioned the 70mai stuff is generally the best

My 70mai dashcam bought in June'2018 (through gearbest.com) is still going great. In between, car changed but dashcam remains same.

Highly recommended brand. I am powering it through 12v socket.

70 Mai A510, comes with Starvis 2 sensor. It is important to note that the SD card you buy should be endurance version meant for dashcam, surveillance etc otherwise it will conk off fast, also get the CPL filter to filter the reflection and glare. Links to all three things:



https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07P4HBRMV

I also got the hardwiring kit as wanted it installed this way:

I have no affiliation with this youtuber but I thought it will be useful here.

Redtiger has recently launched a 4k + 4k dual channel dual starvis 2 dashcam. Its on a premium end. Based on the reviews the UI and app are user-friendly:
Goes quickly out of stock though.