Dash Cams

We'm thinking of getting a dash cam, so any recommendations please, good and bad
thinking of spending £20-£40 as i seen something happern which wasn't nice but i was laffing by head off

There's so many out there it gets confusing with some reveiws with very good and very bad reveiws for that camera

 

Delighted to hear no one was hurt (Didn't want anyone to mistake my laughing rating as inappropriate).

 

I had a Chicken called Dash once

 

Daughter's boyfriend has a fleet of lorries and he has done loads of research on dash cams. I have asked daughter if she knows good makes and she has asked what you want the cam for ie is it to record any serious incident that might happen and you need to be able to record the number plate of another vehicle? As a dash cam is mostly recording moving objects it needs to update constantly, very cheap dash cams aren't able to give a clear picture, they are grainy and stuttered.
She thinks it isn't likely to get anything which will produce a good clear picture for your budget unfortunately. The ones her boyfriend bought for the lorries he got from Halfords and were in the region of £80 /£90 she thinks. If you want her to find out what make/model they are let me know. You can evidently rig up your phone to work pretty much as a dash cam. I haven't the faintest about this but maybe you could find out about how on the net. By the way daughter has a class 1 driving licence and drives refrigerated artics all over Britain so has had quite a bit of experience of dash cams and agrees it's a bit of a minefield trying to work out which are good and which aren't.

 

Thank you all
Thanks JWK for your post with the E-prance will have a look later, just a tad over the money i would like to spend but if good then will find the money

 

@silu
It's just in case something happerns, i to have class 1 been all over uk and over the water but things are getting worst out there and when somethings are starting to happern in the middle of nowhere, like we are, then things must be bad very bad on the roads, 2 bangs and a road rage here in the last 6 months (not me)
i can remembor Number plates no problem

 

You are right things are getting quite a bit worse hence why daughter's BF has bought dash cams for the lorries! Glad that daughter has only ever been "over the water" to Ireland. I would have been horrified if she had had to run the gauntlet to the likes of Calais,. She's met many trampers who were getting threatened/ lorries damaged at the Channel ports in France long before the situation hit the headlines.

 

never been there, but France,Gemary,Belgium,Netherlands,Danmark,Sweden and Finland

I stoped driving just before it was getting worst, so i'm happy and i would even want to do that run now, not even for £1000000

 

I have a cheapo dash cam from fleabay - it's actually quite good.

Ended up in Halfords yesterday - seeking a new car battery - some of their high end dash cams are on sale - £99.

If I get another dash cam - I'll shell out a few more quid and get one that has GPS - so location and more importantly speed is recorded on the video.

I have this irrational fear that at some time in the future I'm involved in an accident and I'm accused of going too fast. If the video evidence shows that I was driving too fast, I just won't mention the video - if it shows I was driving slowly then I will mention it.