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Is a dash cam a must or a waste? I paid $120 for one and it already paid off.
Got in a fender bender last month on I-35 in Austin. Some guy swerved into my lane and claimed I hit him. Cop asked if I had a dash cam. I did. Showed the footage, he got the ticket. That $120 saved me from a higher insurance bill and a headache. But my buddy spent $80 on one and it fried in the sun after three months. So is it worth it for everyone, or just lucky people like me? What do you think?
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the_elizabeth24d ago
Oh man, that's the thing nobody talks about - the heat factor. Most cheap cams just can't handle sitting in a Texas summer, but the good ones (like your $120 one) have better capacitors instead of batteries that swell up and die.
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carr.lee24d ago
And it's the same story with everything cheap these days, isn't it? People just focus on the upfront price tag and don't realize you're gonna pay for it down the road with bad parts and a short life. I've seen it with kids toys that break after a week, or cheap tools that strip out the first time you use them hard. It's like we've all gotten so used to buying stuff twice that we just accept it as normal. You'd think a camera would just need to work in the heat, but nope, gotta pay extra for that basic feature. The real cost is always hiding in the little details nobody wants to think about.
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