To use a parking mode feature to its fullest, you'll need to hardwire the dash cam to your car battery. You'll either need to hardwire the dash cam yourself or get a professional to do it (ask your local garage or the store where you bought the dash cam). Additionally, some dash cam brands sell this cable separately, so you'll need to factor it into the overall cost. A) If you are using a Rear Camera Module and a Dash Cam you need to ensure that a U3 SD card is used inside the camera. It is important to note that our 32GB U3 microSD Card will record approximately 4 hours of HD footage before the Dash Cam overwrites the oldest recordings, or 2 hours if using a rear camera module.

Yes, we recommend formatting your SD card every 3-4 week for regular every day users; and 2-3 weeks for heavy users. A) Years of research and development have led to the creation of an SD card that has superior capabilities to ensure it works with a Dash Cam, where other SD cards don’t have such capabilities. Dash Cams have greater technological requirements from an SD card than a mobile phone or computer, for example, thus the larger price tag. It all sounds impressive, but we'll reserve judgment until it's been through our rigorous testing. Cars with integrated dash camsA) Formatting your SD card wipes the SD card entirely to free up space for new recordings. Note: all our Dash Cams loop record which means the oldest footage is overwritten by the newest footage. However, after a while the SD needs formatting so it can keep doing this. If you experience any of the faults listed above, we strongly recommend that you replace your SD card with a Nextbase one. All our dashcams are tested using Nextbase branded SD cards, therefore we cannot attest to the compatibility of other manufactures We’ve seen over the past few years that some car manufacturers are adding dash cam technology into their cars.

It’s all well and good to have a dash cam set up, but if you discover the footage isn't up to scratch after an accident, it's money down the drain.here for the compatible SD card storage sizes – 128GB is the maximum for our Dash Cams, the minimum varies depending on the Dash Cam. Your Dash Cam’s full manual will contain this information. Nextbase have designed an SD card specifically to fulfil the needs of our Dash Cams. We work directly with the factory to ensure consistency of the SD card quality. Nextbase have spent years testing, trialling and developing SD cards to optimise their performance with our Dash Cams. Due to the differences in technology an SD card that works with a mobile phone or computer won’t necessarily work well with a Dash Cam. The main difference between all SD cards are the READ speed and storage size (32GB, 64GB, 128GB). U3 means the SD card has a minimum WRITE speed of 30MB/s as opposed to a U1 SD card which WRITES at a slower 10MB/s. READ speed isn’t too important when it comes to Dash Cams, as a Dash Cam WRITES data to the SD card when recording. Our Nextbase SD card controller and Firmware on the SD card achieves the requirements from our Dash Cam, where other SD cards cannot. Due to the continuous recording and overwriting of data, the SD card needs to be a high-endurance card, otherwise the card may develop faults after a period of time; if a lower-capability card is used, certain features on the camera will not fully function due to being unable to re-WRITE and record. Symptoms of a non-compatible or corrupted SD card can be freezing, audible alerts, missing footage, gaps in footage and non-functional screens/buttons, as well as more. Dash cams don't just record when you’re driving; most can also monitor your car when it’s parked. However, dash cams have only a small battery that usually lasts just a few minutes after you turn your car off.