SanjeevMahen

After seeing Arun's post and reading up on the review link, I also bought this cam for USD52.00 in Jan'14. Got it in delivered securely in about a month. Ordered a 64GB Micro SD card from a separate seller, which also came in about the same time. Both worked fine right away but then within a few days started giving issues: - Says memory error and would not record. Display will be in the usual live view mode minus the functions/setting display. None of the buttons would work. Basically gets stuck. - Records fine but will not play back on the unit itself. At such times the card has to be taken out and read through a pc/laptop, from which the initial files would play but the rest would not be playable/corrupt. To make it work proper again, I would've to format the card, after copying the playable files. - When the gallery/file mode is taken, it would say 'No Files' whereas there were files and such can be viewed/played only by accessing card thru PC/Laptop. After reading on the user manual that the max supported is 32GB, I assumed it was to do with the card and ordered a 32GB card. Sadly, the 32GB card also gave the same issues and I thought may be its due to both the cards being fake and tried an original 2GB sandisk card that I could get a hold of but it too returned the same issues. I fiddled with all options on the unit. Reduced clip timing to 2mins, Manually power it off after turning the car off so as to save it from any sort of 'crash' it was experiencing. Resetting it.... But nothin worked. After getting to work and parking the car under the sun as usual(no option for shade), I even removed and took the unit with me to office, in the assumption that the heat build up was causing the issue. But then the issue returned even when the unit was installed back in the evening. At times, even when the unit is left in the car during a hot day, it would still work in the evening without an issue. So basically there was no correlation between the issues and the causes that I could think up of. So I'm somewhat out of options now. I've lost some valuable clips/opportunities to record, due to this issue.(no accidents thus far. fingers crossed) Anyone else going thru a similar situ with this unit? I've seen this dash cam in a few vehicles on our roads now. So I guess atlest a few owners of such will be on AL....

Did some research for my own one for over the last year but never quite got around to do it :-) What I found out was, you could go for the conventional method where it'd require quite some modifications to your steering column, box, etc. And also you would have to find parts that would suit your engine and space availability. Then, I came across a guy in Kelaniya who said he could fix a Toyota Every buddy van's(or any other buddy van's for that matter) electric P/S to the Gypsy. He said he would fix the motor and the circuit and that would work fine.The motor needs to be butted to the steering column. Since I didn't see an actual finished output I have my doubts but still I think that it is a possibility.If you want to get in touch with the guy let me know. He quoted 30K.That was about 6months ago. But if you are going for conventional P/S, there are lots of guys around at every other garage who'd be able to try their hand at it. From experience I guess they'd quote arnd 25K to 30K. Good luck...