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I bought my Apeman C860 1440p & 1080p Dual Dash Cam two weeks ago and after opening the box was quite impressed with the build quality. I’ve already had experience with Apeman products/service which I’ve always found very good. The only shortcomings have been understandable sometimes not perfect English translations. That is easy to forgive, when they respond very quickly to any queries. I’ve never had any product problems which inspired me to get the C860. As I’m excitedly impatient when I get a new toy, I proceeded to install the C860 with barely a glance through the instructions. I have a new Hyundai i30, similar in size to a VW Golf, so a medium sized car. I decided to work out the cable route for the front camera first. From experience, I know this is the hardest part of any wiring job, so a bit of thought beforehand is well worth it. I ran the cable from the 12v socket in the centre armrest compartment. This was far easier than getting the cable into the forward 12v socket, as it has a door that means holes would have to drilled to have access whilst the door is stilled closed. Having chosen this position, all the cable is concealed apart from about 30cm which is somewhat hidden by the side of the passengers front seat. So a very neat solution. As my car has rain sensitive automatic wipers, I couldn’t mount the front camera behind the interior mirror as the space is taken up by the rain sensor. I therefore mounted it about 20cm from the passengers side windscreen pillar, as close to the roof lining as possible. This is well out of the normal field of view for the passenger, so works well by narrowly missing the sun visor when in the down position. The unexpected advantage being that it doesn’t restrict the drivers view whatsoever. The wiring run to the rear camera was far simpler, just going inside the edge of the roof lining all the way. Overall I was completely happy with the aesthetics. Initially I was going to use a 64gb MicroSDXC card but wasn’t given a formatting choice for FAT32, only exFAT. An email to Apeman help, got an answer about 2 hours later (saying use exFAT). However in my impatience I switched to a 32gb MicroSDHC card and formatted it to FAT32. I inserted it into the C860 then proceeded to make the clock/date etc settings. As I said before, I’d only glanced through the instructions, but I managed the setup quite easily because there’s only 4 buttons and the design is quite intuitive. As far as using the C860, there’s really nothing needed. It starts and runs automatically as soon as the ignition is turned on or off. Brilliant. After a few days of use, I took the memory card out and viewed the recordings on my PC. They were 3 minute long H265 files with an A or B easily distinguishing the front from the rear camera. The quality was amazingly high, easily good enough to use for keepsakes of any nice scenery. As far as being useful as evidence in an accident, the quality made reading a number plate very easy. It’s early days with the C860, but the first impressions are very good. I would certainly recommend this to others that want high quality at a very reasonable price - 5*.Read full review
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The mounting of camera via the adhesive pad, whilst ensures a firm fixing, also makes for difficult removal / re-alignment. The image quality is hampered through tinted windows, a little more dark than expected, unless this is because of my mounting position.
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