COOLtry DUAL LENS CAR Dash Cam

AS technology advances so prices are falling and with a product like this you have to ask yourself 'How can they make it for this price?'. At one time it would cost over £100 for a dashcam that was anywhere near decent but here is a dual-lens camera for less than £30. But is it any good?

Packaged in a large and colourful mid-market product box aside from the front camera there is also the small rear camera with cable set and mounting kit, rear view mirror mounts, car power adaptor, and User Guide. The User Guide, unlike most, was very well printed, easy to read and but poorly translated. I include a copy at the end of my unboxing video, switch to full screen and pause as needed to read it. Unlike with many more expensive rivals, there was no SD card or USB cable and the user must supply their own. Be sure to use a good quality high-speed card of no larger than 32GB.

Most dashcams are single camera units but this system is supplied with a second small waterproof camera that is attached by cable to the front camera and can be positioned in the back window or above the rear licence plate to continuously record activity behind the car in addition to the forward picture recorded by the main camera. The rear camera is connected by a lengthy cable to a socket on the main camera. The video from the rear cam can be viewed on and is recorded by the front camera. The front camera has an F1.8 170-degree angle of view according to the User Guide, but we are not told the specifications for the rear camera. The second camera takes power from the front camera, however, if you wish to use the option to have this as a reversing camera then a connection must be made to the reversing light power supply.

Fixing the camera to the mirror on my Toyota Aygo was easy enough and the cables were easily long enough for both cameras. The front camera is built into an extra large mirror which clips over the existing rear view mirror with a 4.3" LCD screen incorporated into it. The front came..