Garmin Dash Cam 67W, 1440p and extra-wide 180-degree FOV, Monitor Your Vehicle While Away w/ New Connected Features, Voice Control, Compact and Discreet, Includes Memory Card - 010-02505-05

Update October 2023:*****To the other reviewer with the CarPlay issue in their Jeep 4xe****- I have the same car you do not need to completely unpair your phone to connect to the garmin app. All you need to do is click into your device manager by tapping the CarPlay icon on the bottom nav bar and tap your phone to disconnect bluetooth between the two. Then you can connect to the garmin app with no issues and when youre done just tap your phone in the device manager again to reconnect.This dash cam is F***** AMAZING. I cannot believe that this thing is still working like it did day one out of the box. I've never had a dash cam work so well even a year later. Every few months when I turn on the car, it will ask if I want to reformat the sd card to make sure files can continue to save properly and the camera itself can do that. That's awesome! Less human interaction, less human error overall for this, which I believe is also the reason other dash cams start to fail as most users don't even know they need to reformat the sd card let alone know how to or have time to. Most dash cams DON'T do this.It still gets confused with my electric mode when its toggled on (I have the 22 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe), and also when my car will continue to power itself as I walk away and when I walk back up due to the fun tech that registers I'm near (and it starts itself up) so that sometimes screws up parking mode but in the times I've been away and something shook my car it would record and save it. It even would register large movement like the times I'd open the garage door to go take trash out and save it as motion detected.Unfortunately, its not high def enough to catch most plates (but otherwise its quite high quality!), but the one time I really needed it I clicked the save video button and yelled out the state and plate numbers. It caught what I said! Speaking of the microphone I listen to music WAY to loud, and this thing manages to somehow turn down my audio in the recording but still pick up my voice clear as day. Absolutely fantastic. Will be buying a second one for our Jeep Rubicon and off road adventures.I am still confused to this day how it knows my exact coordinates and what speed I'm going... maybe it uses my phone I'm not sure, but it records where you are and your speed and the time, which is great if you ever need it. Honestly might buy a second one just to put it on my back window of my SUV if I can figure out how to get power back there for it. I mean, the app lets you have multiple connected at once, I gotta try this out now that this thing has proven it can last.---------------I have only had this dashcam for at most a week now, so I will come back to update if this dashcam fails me.I've used around 5 or 6 different dashcams in my 8 years of driving and I have to say I've learned a thing or two about what you want to look for when purchasing one after being burned so many times. I've used a few top sellers on amazon, which turned out to be crap. I then tried Vantrue, which also ended up corrupting all my files and never saving them after only a few months. Then I got on the OwlCam train, and got really burned by it. Not to mention, too expensive for such a piece of crap machinery.Now this dashcam I put a *lot of thought* into before buying. I can't stress enough how many times I've been burned. I decided to look based off of the following features:1) is the company that made it real? Like real with their own website?- Most of them aren't, but Garmin has been in the game for a while with car products, so I figured hey give them a try.2) Can the dashcam connect to an app/my phone? If yes, look that app up, see it's reviews in the app store.- This camera as of writing uses the Garmin Drive app, and this app has 4.5K reviews and 4.7 stars on the iPhone App Store. No other app I could find connected to any dashcam had so many and such high reviews. This gave me hope.3) What is the actual recording resolution of the camera? Some companies lie, and it's not actually 4K or whatever they say. Look at youtube reviews with proof of the file format.- Garmin, they did not lie to my knowledge. I can see it. I can't read license plates, but let's be honest. None of the dashcams you can find will. Maybe some in some bizarre cases, but no - don't expect to be able to catch a plate. If something happens, just yell out the plate State and Number so you can hear it in the recording later. Also, don't be stupid, get UNDERinsured driver insurance AND UNINSURED driver insurance. From experience, this saved my sister's literal life.4) Can I have a Live connection to the camera somehow?- NexarOne and Owlcam both have these options, but fail horribly at them. Garmin has a different version of live, and given that this dashcam checked enough of my other boxes, I said fine to this. Better not to be forced to pay some subscription fee anyways. Their Live option just requires some internet connection, so I connected mine to my house wifi, as it sits in my garage. Those who park outside/away from wifi would just have to let it use their phone's data when they are near it instead (which is nice when you are away from home if something happens).Here's my experience so far with this camera:- Placement in the windshield -> I placed it in the center, directly behind my review mirror. I can't see the screen of the dashcam because of where I placed it, but I don't care personally. It blends in with the black interior of my car, you wouldn't know it's there unless you look hard. This is great to not attract as many thieves. It's also SO TINY I am amazed.- Recording--> After trying the different resolution options, I picked the 1440p one. It's the highest def. I also am amazed at the 180° view. You can really see the sides of the car, if someone came in to t-bone you I am sure the camera would catch it.--> It starts recording as soon as I turn on the engine, and I noticed in the video recordings that it ironically records my speed as soon as I throw it into drive. I don't know if this is coincidence or not, but I like that it records my speed.--> I like the feature that tells you "Traffic is in motion". Sometimes I zone out at long red lights, and this feature is also on my Subaru, but it won't be on my new car when it gets here, so the fact that the dashcam does it is a huge plus to me.--> It has a feature that beeps quickly at you if you cross a solid line. I think it was created to alert drowsy drivers, but I personally don't mind it going off. It's so quick, it only takes your attention for a second or two.--> It also has a feature to yell at you if you're tailing someone to close and it could result in a bad accident. Mine has never gone off, but I also don't tail people. I think it might annoy someone, but at that point don't drive like an ass LOL.- The App & My Phone--> Now I don't know if this thing has a battery in it. I am assuming by it's size that it does not. My car is newer, so it turns off all the ports after I shut the engine off. This camera uses a USB (i have usb ports in my car, it works with those) and comes with an adapter so you can use it.--> I don't have to have the app open, unlike Nexar for example, for the dashcam to work. The dashcam basically works on its own, and has a great integration with the app. You have options to use it basically (whether you want the app or not). I personally prefer the app, as it is easier. I make sure to leave my car in electric mode before I turn it off to double check that the footage was recorded. It's so nice, you just connect to the dashcam via it's "wifi" signal, and then you can view the footage on the memory card (or you could plug it in to your computer really easily, but I haven't found a need to do that).--> On the app, you can choose a video that was recorded and upload it to the "Vault" from the memory card in it where if you have a "free" subscription it will delete in 24 hours. You really don't need footage unless you were in a wreck, so the only way I could forsee someone being screwed over is if the camera footage is only accessible via the app for some reason (maybe the camera was nearly destroyed in a wreck or something) and the driver was unconscious and couldn't get the footage before being taken away. Then again, I could see how you could still get the footage back later, because the dash cam won't overwrite footage that's been labeled "accident detected". You're just screwed if your car is robbed and they take the camera with it.--> *AN IMPORTANT NOTE* is that the dashcam will show you lower resolution footage in the app, but if you "export" the video, it will compile the actual higher definition footage to which you can easily push it to the "vault" (cloud) or to your phone's storage (so the Photos app on iOS).- Things that I didn't expect but love--> This dashcam is the *first* that I've had that can handle how loud I put my music and bass. It doesn't mess the volume up at all. It just lowers the music volume in the recording, but my voice is still loud and clear. AMAZING.--> How tiny it is, so easy to hide. Tuck the wires for it into your side panels, super easy.--> that it uses USB, not hard-wiring. Now when my car is in the shop, it will still record what's happening instead of needing to be unplugged to do data updates and smog tests.--> that you can connect multiple cameras to your account on the app. If this camera holds up well for 3 months, I will buy another and put it as my back camera. They can sync in the app to give you a two in one video with both angles.--> that it doesn't use a suction cup but rather a strong tape, so it won't fall off the window on you. You *can* buy a suction cup attachment for 15$ from garmin if you want--> garmin's website has an interactive manual, which is super nice and easy to use.TLDR: I did my research, so far it's paying off. I hope i don't have to come back and give a negative review in a while when I've been putting it through wear and tear. This dashcam has worked the best out of all I've used, but I am a Computer Scientists, so tech comes very easy to me. I want to say it's fairly simple for non-techy people to catch on to though.

I like the camera (67W) - It's pretty simple to use if you don’t run into the issues I had, the image/audio quality is great, the 140d wide angle lens captures a lot and after about a year of use, the camera has had no problems recording video/audio on a 256GB micro SD card (extreme environment version). The file retention @1440p with audio is about 2 weeks.I live in the southeast, so it's pretty hot during the summer. The camera started falling off the windshield with the included foam mounting tape at around 8-9 months. I ended up buying some good 3M high strength outdoor foam mounting tape, cut it to size, and replaced what came with the camera. The camera mount I chose was the hexagonal piece of steel that attaches to the windshield with the foam tape, and the camera has a hexagonal cup with a strong magnet it in it. The dashcam is pretty light, and they do include enough mounting/cable length to mount this where you'd need it.The Garmin drive setup software can use some help as the pairing process is very manual, and if you are not paying attention, and you miss hitting pair on both the phone and camera at the same time, you will need to reset the camera to factory defaults, and then remove the botched bluetooth connections in your phone. The bluetooth pairing process doesn't explain that you will have two different bluetooth connections for the one camera, so pay careful attention to the pairing process - Both bluetooth connections will be DC-67W and the other is DC67W-#####-BTAside from this, I ran into a very difficult issue to solve after a few months of usage, but eventually figured it out - VPN apps in iOS will disrupt your ability to connect to the dashcam's WiFi connection depending on the VPN app settings. Basically VPN applications can become a middleman between your phone's wireless adaptor and the wireless connection or "SSID". These VPN settings can alter IP addressing/routing, and will prevent you from connecting to the camera with your phone/app to export or even watch the footage on your cameras SD-card. This is because the Garmin drive app is very simple in that when you try and view footage on your dashcam, the drive app actually tells the dashcam via bluetooth to "enable wireless", essentially making your dashcam a wireless access point, then the drive app connects your phone to the cameras SSID, enters in the wireless password for you (this is happening behind the scenes), and then allows you to manage the footage, update the firmware of the camera, etc. It is during this wireless connection process that VPN apps can enable itself to protect you and will basically change IP information of your phone, which then stops your camera and phone from communicating with eachother.I suspect this is because the dashcam only knows about the network 192.168.0.0/24, where as your VPN app may force your wireless adaptor to be on a different private network to basically hide your phone from untrusted WiFi SSIDs. I'm sure there could be more variables, but this is what was happening in my case. Disabling VPN was my resolution to this issue. If you have the option to set your VPN app to disable itself when connecting to trusted WiFi connections, that might be an easy fix.Garmin needs to streamline the software, and pairing process to help avoid having users that don't have I.T. or networking knowledge, getting stuck dealing with these types of connectivity issues. Garmin should include additional pop-ups in the app for when things aren't working or during setup like "please disable VPN connectivity when connecting to the camera's wireless connection", or "You must accept the bluetooth pairing prompts on both the mobile device, and on the dashcam at the time of pairing", etc.Other than the above, I do recommend this dashcam.