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

Renegade

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I have been meaning to get a dashcam for my car since a long time, mostly motivated by the scary Bangalore road rage videos, but could never narrow down on one. Mainly because I get cold feet looking at those exposed wires and the thought of taking it to the local accessories shop who may mess something up. I like my car completely stock and unmodified. How I wish all manufacturers offered dashcams as stock.

Nevertheless, now that I intend drive a lot more, I am fairly certain of getting one now in the foreseeable future. So requesting suggestions for a good dashcam which can record number plates during night, record good quality travel videos and most importantly the company provides professional services for fitting the dashcam much like say an Air Conditioner post purchase.

Should there be any other considerations while choosing a dashcam?
 
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.
 
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How are the Qubo ones? I read somewhere that their empaneled technicians come and install the dashcams. Have heard good word of mouth for their video doorbells but no views on the dashcams.
 
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.
 
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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
 
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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.
 
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