VIOFO - A229 Plus 3CH
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Last updated: Aug 1, 2025 Scoring
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"It has STARVIS 2 sensors which is really the only option worth considering for night time video clarity."
"The picture quality day or night is fantastic."
"Excellent day and night video."
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"Make sure whatever dashcam you buy has a capacitor and NOT a battery. ... In the summer the interior of cars can get well above 120° and cook the battery. A capacitor will survive, no problem. The same for the winter, the batteries fail in the constant, deep cold, capacitors don't."
"Yeah they are specifically better in the heat than other cameras because they use a super capacitor instead of a battery to do the final writing to the SD card when the power gets cut by your car. ... Batteries tend to have issues in extreme heat/cold"
"it worked perfectly in the year I ve been using it (in the Texas heat, too)"
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"simple install ... most of this job is just plugging cables in and routing wires. You only have to crimp 2 wires for connecting add a fuse taps"
"Easy install"
"No problem easy install."
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"Front/rear cam and hardwire kit was only $200"
"For $170 you get a 1440p front and rear cam, with an option for a 3rd channel should you want an interior cam."
"Viofo a229 is the best hands down for the price. ... You can get better if you spend a lot more money but it's not worth it unless you want integration into a head unit."
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"EVERYONE should have them. They can save hundreds of thousands of dollars, years of stress and keep you out of prison."
"We had a person in front of us at a red light, when it turned green, put it in reverse and plowed into us. ... no one would have believed us (insurance company) if we didn have footage or admission"
"If someone calls the police on you and it's their word against yours, you might lose in court. And not just traffic court. You can be charged criminally ( depending on that person's "story" ). If that happens, it will be months of stress, thousands on a lawyer and you still might lose. No license to get to and from work, thousands in fines, sued civilly, and angry for 10 years with much higher insurance premiums. ... Whenever there's an incident, save the recording on your PC incase someone tries to blame you etc."
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"A *lot* of these were triggered because of the tree across the street having it's leaves/limbs blowing in the wind. ... unless you park in a parking garage you will likely have a *ton* of useless events to the point that Parking Mode is unusable in Auto Detection mode."
"It also seems to take a bit for the battery to recharge. If you're driving longer distances regularly it might not be an issue, but at least for my use I would often miss recordings due to the battery being too low and so a battery pack would be useful. ... how often I take short trips (work is only a ~5 minute drive) it doesn't give the system enough time to recharge the battery and so it can't record much during Parking Mode."
"It does NOT handle the Florida heat at all. ... Constant shutdowns while driving and parked have rendered it absolutely useless. ... Viofo's solution? Kick it down to 1080 / 2k and hope works. It did not. ... The camera is seriously flawed."
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"annoying to wire for sure ... Hardest part was wiring the rear cable through the liftgate"
"I got the same one for mine and took it to geek squad and had them install it. ... No visible wires and no headache for me. ... knew I wouldn't have time to install it for a week or so and was paranoid about driving a new car around without one so it was worth it for me to be able to get it done while I got other stuff done."
"I couldn't get my cable to fit through that gasket from the body to the hatch ... The loop of wire is annoying."
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"It does NOT handle the Florida heat at all. ... Constant shutdowns while driving and parked have rendered it absolutely useless. ... Viofo's solution? Kick it down to 1080 / 2k and hope works. It did not. ... The camera is seriously flawed."
"My VIOFO A229 camera constantly powers down & reboots when temps are above 70 & the sun is out. ... Camera is unreliable"
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"It’s also a PITA for me to use WiFi because when I’m in the car my phone connects to CarPlay and CarPlay disables WiFi."
"except for the app. ... I only ever view videos by taking the sd out and using my computer."
"Slow and the app _blows_."
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"Lastly, while the IR coverage is fine, the scope is narrowed so that anything out of the cone/"periscope" of light coverage isn't lit nearly as well. My previous camera (Coxpal), while it had its own issues, did all these things better with its interior camera."
"The quality, even for 1080p, looks subpar to other interior camera combos I've had, and the exposure is just "weird" in that it doesn't exactly flatter anyone sitting in the car."
"I do wish I had something that records inside as well though."
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