Front Dash Cameras

Honestly, most of our customers end up buying front and rear, and if you're undecided that's the safer purchase. Rear-end collisions are the ones you can't argue your way out of, and parking lot damage usually happens at the back. Front-only makes sense for a second vehicle, a garaged car, a short lease, or a tighter budget. If you're buying once and keeping the vehicle for years, add the rear camera now — retrofitting later costs full labour a second time.

For reading plates, yes. 1080p reliably shows you what happened; 4K is what lets you read the plate of a car that didn't stop. If your goal is evidence for an insurance claim where both parties exchange details, 1080p is enough. If your goal is identifying someone who drove off, spend the difference.

It matters more than most people realise, and almost nobody mentions it. A plate on an oncoming car at highway speed crosses the frame fast. At 30fps you often get two motion-blurred frames; at 60fps you get four, and one of them is usually sharp. Our Viofo A329S is the only front camera we stock that records 4K at 60fps.

Every camera on this page supports parking mode, but it needs power from somewhere. Some include a hardwire kit that runs it off your vehicle's battery with a low-voltage cutoff; where one isn't in the box, we show the cost on the card so the price you see is the price to actually use it. For longer coverage, a dedicated battery pack keeps your starter battery out of it entirely.

Some include one, some don't, and the spec is on each product page. Use a high-endurance card designed for continuous recording — a standard card will fail in months under a dash cam's write load.

Behind or beside the rear-view mirror, high on the windscreen where it sits inside the wiper sweep and out of your sightline. When we install, the cable runs up the A-pillar and along the headliner so nothing is visible.

Every camera we sell uses a supercapacitor rather than a lithium battery, and that's deliberate. A car parked in July can reach 60°C inside, and lithium cells swell and fail under that heat — it's the single most common reason cheap dash cams die in their second or third summer. Supercapacitors tolerate the temperature range a vehicle actually sees, from a −30°C winter morning to a baking parking lot. It costs more to build, which is why budget cameras don't use it, and it's a large part of why we stock a handful of front cameras rather than fifty.