Dashcams: Your Questions Answered!

Two-channel dashcams are really popular. A small rear camera is attached to the back window, and connects to the front camera, with both cameras recording onto a single micro-SD card. It’s worth considering, as rear-end and tailgating incidents are some of the most common accidents on our roads.

It sure can – it’s one of our most common requests. All of our dashcams are capable of parking recording. When the car is parked, the camera is in standby, ready to record if it detects motion or shock.

In any case, it’s important that the camera is installed professionally to ensure parking mode doesn’t flatten your car battery. Read on for more information…

If you’re using your dashcam for parking recording it runs from your car battery via a hardwiring kit. This hardwiring kit ensures the camera shuts off before your battery goes flat, but that limits the amount of time your camera can run in parking mode. If your car battery is more than a couple of years old, the camera may only run for a few hours before it shuts off.

A lithium-ion battery pack can run your dashcam in parking mode for much longer periods of time with zero drain on your car battery. It recharges while you drive, and runs the camera when you’re parked. It’s worth considering if you want to make sure your car is protected all day – or night.

Many of our cams have cloud connectivity. This allows you to check on your car while you’re away from it, view and download recordings, and get alerts if something happens to your car while it’s parked, all via your smartphone.

Using a dashcam’s cloud functionality requires a wifi hotspot in the car for the dashcam to connect to the cloud. You can choose a hotspot device and a data plan from your carrier for us to install. We can help advise on which hotspot device will work best with your dashcam.

It’s best to leave new window tint for one week before attaching a dashcam. This generally only affects rear dashcams, as the front windscreen doesn’t get tinted. Keep this in mind if you’re booking in tinting and a camera in short order. If needed, we can fit the front cam anytime, and attach the rear camera a week after tinting.

We can help with Uber’s requirements with models suitable for recording your drive, as well as inside the cabin – day or night.

Absolutely. We’ve got heavy-duty commercial dashcam models and we can work around your commercial vehicle fitout.

You can! We have options for fitting a two-channel dash cam to your car, with the ability to record from a camera on the rear of the caravan when it’s hitched up.

It depends on the model of camera. While many models come with single-channel and two-channel options, many single-channel dashcams lack the connector for the second camera, so it pays to consider a single-channel versus two-channel dashcam carefully.

Being that dashcams are set up for recording, they’re independent of your reverse camera.