[TurtleBoy]

Originally Posted by Rixbimmer

Just purchased my car - How do you look at the recorder and how do you download from the recorder?

Go into Apps/Drive Recorder and you will see the options there for setup, viewing and downloading.

[Leotno]

Long story short.
Car is still not repaired.

Oh and its actually 30k+ in repairs.

[biterror]

Originally Posted by Leotno

Long story short.
Car is still not repaired.

Oh and its actually 30k+ in repairs.

Almost 6 months and you still haven't gotten your car back? :-(

[Caramel]

What's the holdup? Parts? Insurance? Covid?

[W0ut]

Originally Posted by Leotno

Long story short.
Car is still not repaired.

Oh and its actually 30k+ in repairs.

Man that s*cks. If a car takes >6 months to repair. Not sure if I want it back.

Do you get an extra compensation?

[Wild Blue]

Originally Posted by Leotno

Long story short.
Car is still not repaired.

Oh and its actually 30k+ in repairs.

Oh, geez. Really sorry to hear this, man.

[Jenya B]

Originally Posted by Leotno

Hello! I just wanted to share my experience this weekend. Long story short, I was rear ended by a drunk driver going about 50 mph when I was coming to stop at a red light.

The car was great! I JUST purchased the drive recorder feature a few weeks ago and just set it and never bothered with it again. I attempted to manually get the car to save the recording but I was dazed and wasn't sure which button it was. Glad to say, the car recognized the accident and already had the whole thing saved as "Accident on 08-16-2020". Here is a link to the video. Note: I did lose some quality converting the video format into something I would be able to upload. The native video resolution is 1080 and is better quality than what is uploaded on YouTube.

The active headrest and both front seat seatbelt tensioners deployed.

The car that struck me ignited into flames a few minutes after impact.

Glad to be alive but also dreading the whole insurance/repair process. Will keep everyone updated with the estimated cost and time for repair.

what kind of rockets you use to attack rear car ?

[codex57]

Damn, that's like Tesla level repair wait times.

[gqgambler]

Originally Posted by Leotno

Long story short.
Car is still not repaired.

Oh and its actually 30k+ in repairs.

oh, so sorry to hear. Accident repairs are the worst. We lost my wife's car for an entire summer waiting on a repair one year. she was parked and at the butt end of a multi-car collision in front of the kids daycare. Thankfully cars were parked there saving the at fault driver from plowing in to the daycare entrance.

Please tell me this isn't being handled by your insurance and the other driver had insurance?

[KaiRaine]

Glad you were okay after the accident and that the Drive Recorder caught the footage.

I had someone merge into my lane a few months ago, but my Drive Recorder didn't capture anything. I had previously set up everything, but I don't know why it did not trigger.

Does anyone know where the collision sensors are and whether there are different levels of sensitivity? I'm worried that in the future I get into another accident and end up needing evidence of fault and not having a recording.

[10101X5]

Wow sorry to hear. Glad you were ok. I have Dark Graphite Metallic with those rims too. Didn’t know it’s an individual color. I always wondered how this feature worked. What triggered the car to save the recording?

[bandersen]

Originally Posted by Ninefourteener

I'm glad you are ok.... and this re-confirms why I put so much effort into getting the drive recorder to work, exporting it, and keeping spare USB drives in the car. Arguably, one of the best features on our cars.

Now.... with all the niceties out of the way.....

F-ing drunk drivers.... Irresponsible f-ing human pieces of shit.... out risking their own lives, and putting the lives of responsible people at risk, and in many cases.... ruining or ending the lives of those people.

Drunk drivers are right at the bottom of my shit-list with pedophiles.

I would have SERIOUSLY had a hard time not dragging that MF-er out of his car, and beating him within an inch of his life. God help him if one of my kids was in the car and been hurt. I would have put him in a wheelchair, permanently.

I hate to say this.... but I actually HOPE he was hurt in that crash. Not dead.... but hurt.... so he hopefully remembers it next time he decides to take a drink.

Probably offended a few people with my deep-seeded hate of drunk drivers. Sorry, but not sorry.

Seriously dude - Why in the F would you drag him out of the car and beat him? It's on fire - let it burn. Don't get dirty..

[amphiprion]

It's actually now been over a year since the original post...

[X54TH]

I added the Driver Recorder on the X5 a year ago for safety reasons and I've used it few times to record some winding roads. Just picked up my daughter's 330 and added it to her car right away for safety reasons.

Quick question, would it record if the car was hit while parked and turned off?