The EU / UK legal Vehicle / Car Camera / DVR, from £40 / €50

vCam Standard (shown below) only costs £40 and includes quality memory card (worth £25)

Q: Why is vCam the only legal UK / EU low cost car / accident camera?
A: Because it is the only "DVR" designed not to obscure the driver's view.

Other cheap car cameras suction mount onto the windscreen or on top of the dash area and partly block the driver's view; this is unlawful, dangerous, and renders the video inadmissible one way or another.

vCam is different, vCam flush mounts onto the front of the passenger sun visor and can not be seen by the driver; it is therefore 100% lawful and its video can legally / safely be used as evidence.

Q: Why would I want to use a DVR / Vehicle Camera?
A: To record accidents and bad / criminal drivers. To protect your no claims bonus against false / unfair insurance claims. For protection against aggressive drivers / road rage.

If you are involved in an accident you will probably lose your no claims bonus, even if it was not your fault (through lack of proof / willingness by the insurance company); if you have a video of the event, you will not lose your NCB if you were not at fault. Also, if you ever fumed over bad / illegal / aggressive drivers because there was nothing you could do about them, now you can!

Finally, some motor insurance companies discount their premiums if you use vCam.

Q: How easy is vCam to install?
A: Anyone can easily install vCam onto their passenger sun visor in seconds.

There is no specialist installation or skills required; vCam simply sits in a cradle that hooks over the top of your passenger sun visor. vCam does not damage or mark your vehicle. And vCam can be taken out and used in another vehicle also in seconds; it really is that easy. Perfect also for rental cars!

Q: Why else is vCam better than other cheap DVR's?
A: Because it can work outside the vehicle to record the damage, because it can also be used as a spy / surveillance camera, and it can be used as a back-up still / video camera.

vCam easily comes out of the vehicle so you can record the damage to you vehicle and others, plus vCam is so small, it is easily used as a so called "spy" or hidden camera, often to record wrong doing in the work place. It can even be used as a back-up regular camera when your main one is at home.

Q: How does vCam work?
A: As soon as it receives power from your cigar lighter or the optional solar charger, vCam records continuously overwriting old video with new. You can view the video on vCam's integral LCD screen or download the files onto your PC.

You simply lower the passenger sun visor, hook vCam's cradle onto it, give vCam power via your cigar lighter or solar charger, and away you go; that's it. If you are involved in an accident, you can take vCam out of your car and record the damage / other drivers (to protect yourself against accident insurance scammers). If the police come out, you can replay vCam's video of the event for them. And you can send a copy of the relevant video to your insurance company along with your claim.

Q: vCam can work by solar power?
A: Yes, we provide an optional solar charger if you can not use a car cigar lighter socket.

Many people plug their SatNav's and / or mobile phones into their car's cigar lighter. Some vehicles do not even have cigar lighters. So vCam Solar is perfect for these people, and for out of vehicle surveillance / security camera applications / uses. vCam also has its own internal battery if you want to use it outside the vehicle without a solar charger.

Q: Is vCam Exclusive?
A: Yes, vCam is Patented and undergoing the TradeMark process.

No-one else in the world should be offering a sun visor mounted car camera, no-one else should be offering a solar powered version, and no-one else should be using the name "vCam" for car camera equipment.

vCam is a European designed product sold by vCam Ltd of England. Although the DVR and solar charger are available elsewhere in a generic form, they do not provide the functionality of vCam. A less featured version of the camera with suction mounted cradle can be bought in Asia, but it is not lawful in the UK / EU and not as good as the fully featured vCam. In addition, if you do not have or want to use the cigar lighter socket, if you connect most solar chargers to a DVR they will not work as their wiring and output are wrong.

A car camera that obstructs any of the driver's field of vision is unlawful in the UK / EU, not least because it is very dangerous.

Whether by windscreen suction cup or dash top mount, if any part of the camera obstructs the driver's view of the road ahead, it is unlawful and the video it takes can not be used as evidence.

Even is evidence is allowed from an unlawful camera such as this, the opposing party / lawyer can easily claim the obstruction contributed to the accident.

vCam is hidden from the driver's view on the front of the passenger sun visor (photo is of a left hand drive car in Europe).

Like most modern cars, this one is designed so the passenger sun visor allows the driver to see past and in front of it. Hence the reason it is safe to drive around with the passenger sun visor in the down position.

vCam is the only UK / EU lawful budget car cam.