Dashcam

[josall]

I recently had my Yeti serviced by my local Skoda dealer, I was fortunate enough for them to pick up and return as part of the service,

 

I have a dashcam fitted which plugs into the lighter plug, upon return I later found the camera had been unplugged and left unplugged until I checked the next day.

 

There was no evidence of the journey from my home up to return.

 

Now I have not raised this with the dealer yet, is there a set protocol for garage employees who drive customer cars with dashcams or anything else which I should be aware of?

 

Also if my insurance includes the use of a dashcam and an accident occurs will there be repercussion's ?

[longedge]

I flattened my battery once by leaving my Nextbase dashcam plugged in (admittedly for a fortnight whilst I was on holiday ).

[Urrell]

I suspect it was disconnected to stop it recording them.

[Sad555]

wait for the speeding ticket to arrive

[Urrell]

Hard-wire it in with a piggy back fuse connector, most use fuse 6 because its ignition controlled.

[Gizmo]

45 minutes ago, Urrell said:

Hard-wire it in with a piggy back fuse connector, most use fuse 6 because its ignition controlled.

 

I did that with my Superb and they still disconnected it.

 

So I now use another dealer.

[Guest]

Get it hard wired in. 

 

You'll be amazed/gobsmacked/homicidally raging when you see what Skoda Technicians get up to in/with customers vehicles. 

 

Not that it does you any good when you present the evidence, as they just tell you to go elsewhere. 

 

Speaking from personal experience. 

[Rustynuts]

Hardwire it in, they'll just unplug the cable from the dashcam. Or if they're determined they'll remove the memory card.

[DAN@ADRIAN FLUX]

22 hours ago, josall said:

I recently had my Yeti serviced by my local Skoda dealer, I was fortunate enough for them to pick up and return as part of the service,

 

I have a dashcam fitted which plugs into the lighter plug, upon return I later found the camera had been unplugged and left unplugged until I checked the next day.

 

There was no evidence of the journey from my home up to return.

 

Now I have not raised this with the dealer yet, is there a set protocol for garage employees who drive customer cars with dashcams or anything else which I should be aware of?

 

Also if my insurance includes the use of a dashcam and an accident occurs will there be repercussion's ?

Hi,

With regards to you insurance it would depend on what terms they have imposed on you policy. Might be worth checking it with them.

Regards,

Dan.

[longedge]

The vehicle will be covered by the dealership insurance whilst being driven by their staff surely. The days of "any driver" policies are long gone aren't they?

[Parkesie]

A lot of garages will turn off or cover cameras it comes down to a few things. Permission to record someone working and going about business. A mechanics tools can run to thousands of pounds worth of kit, they don’t want everyone knowing where and how they are secured. Mot lanes are not allowed to be recorded. 

[ernieb]

It’s much more difficult for me to fit a Dashcam to my new car, Subaru XV 2018, A’s the middle section of the screen has to be left clear. The reason being that the diver assist systems use a stereo pair of HD cameras. I can not get a feed from these.  However, reading the small print says that in the event of a crash the system does record the event prior and after, must be a loop, and can on the application of a court order be released.  So I assume that if some garage tech pranged the car the recording could be used.

interestingly, there was a BBC news item today saying that the police are reducing highway patrol cars etc., and will be very happy to take good quality Dashcam footage as evidence.