Attempted break in or worse

It's sort of like upgrading from an iPhone 6 to an iPhone 6s. Not worth upgrading if you already have the f770, but if you have neither the f770 is still a good cam if you can save some money on it.

The f770 has a sleeker form factor that hides the cable plugs, the f800 plugs don't plug in next to each other well it's sort of mind boggling that they didn't realize two cable that needed to go up into your headboard would get in each other's way if they were in line with each other.

The f800 has sightly better video quality though.

What really annoyed me though it's the f800 has an ugly silver and gray design that's very visible, then the more expensive f800 pro is all black like all dash cams should be IMHO. The pro model has cloud support, 128gb card support, and a low power parking mode option.

 

OP, Im sorry somebody tried to tamper with your Taco.

I am interested to see how video comes out at night through the smoke in the rear.
Can you kindly upload it? Does Thinkware F770 have infrared to help night vision?
I am currently using a cheap dash cam in the rear with infrared supplement but sometimes it reflects and make it difficult to see.

 

Code scanners is the new rage. My friend had in video someone using it to pop the doors to his brand new chevy malibu. Stold all his wives nursing gear for school etc. there out there. This guys looks pathetic. Out there praying on people.

 

Well that might be how it is in Texas but here in Cali it's all f'd up. We have a shitty governor who wants these shit bags out of prison. They are getting out early daily here and the crime rates are getting worse. Just Google Prop 57 and Prop 47 and you'll see. Cops arrest but most of the time they get prosecuted and let out as time served.

 

I always thought these newer ones were harder to steal. Especially after watching a few videos of people struggling to steal one.

Do you really just need some little scanner box and the truck is yours? It seems like that would be take a while to roll through so many different codes. But I don’t know much about the security system in these.

Looks like I might need to add a couple things to mine.

 

I had a dead man switch on my 1992 Yota, might have saved the truck from being stolen, along with living on a hill with a curb.
Thief's caught me without my alarm on one night, slim jimmed the door, and tried to coast down the hill to start it.
Little did they know the steering wheel locked without the key, while they were coasting down the slight curve it simply wouldn't turn anymore.
They left it locked about 6 houses down on the other side of the street with the rear drivers side tire on the curb

 

When I filed the P.R. the officer was impressed with the quality of the photos and wanted to know the dash cam make and model so he could get one!

He ran the plate of the Kia. Wasn’t stolen and the owner lives in Long Beach. Do gang bangers drive new cars?

 

Not usually. Well, not 'real' bangers anyway.

His looks were more hipster, high and tight, skinnies, skinny, etc.

However, kids who want to play gang banger drive mommy's new car while looking for a joy rider, which is possible your truck was headed for. As well as pilfering any loose valuables in the cab.

Or he may have built his scanner off the internet and just wanted to test it out.

Glad they got the plates. Hopefully they'll at least lean on the owner by asking lots of questions. Sometimes its possible to scare the bejeebers out of these dingwazzles.

 

The alarm sounded for about two minutes. They drove off about the time it stopped. The entire event lasted about 8 minutes.

 

thinkware offers an IR camera but it is for recording inside the car. Any IR shining out the window will just reflect and not really work. I have asked why there arent any sort of exterior IR lights for this purpose and someone brought up the fact that IR often shows up as a red light and that would be illegal to be shining forward on your car. Some better IR lights might not but maybe only really expensive ones don't show up as red to the human eye.

 

So can the PD go knock on the door of these people or do they have to wait until they break more stuff?

 

Sorry for your trouble OP. Subd for the inevitable arrest info.

 

Fortunately it was very minor. We were able to McGyver the hood sensor by jumping it with a paper clip (The hour drive home with the beeping would have been unbearable!). Once home I was able to splice the wires back together. The clip the attaches the connector to the spar was broken, but a couple of zip ties fixed that.

I think this is what they tried: First they hooked the horn wire through the grille (it's really easy to see behind the grille) and yank it out of the connector to the horn to silence the alarm when the hood is popped. Then they tried to hook the hood cable a yank that really hard, but they hooked the sensor wire instead (it is tucked up right next to the hood release cable) and broke it. That triggered the alarm and the honking via the second horn. They were probably startled by the alarm since they thought they disabled the horn so they left.

The horns are redundant, in that both the horn button on the steering wheel and alarm active both horns. When the first horn was unplugged the second horn was still activated by the steering wheel. I think Toyota did a nice job protecting the hood release cable into the latch and running the sensor wire right next to it, making it very difficult to hook the cable without also hooking the sensor wire.

In any event I hold little hope that I will hear anything further about this turdhole, but I did post his picture on the Long Beach Crime Watch FB page for all the see.

 

Skinny little shit was just looking for a sammich.

 

debating on this or a new alarm...

 

I think all alarm systems should include cameras.

 

Owners manual pages about the factory alarm. I didn't know how it worked either until just now:

 

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OP uses the F770, there is also the newer F800 and F800 pro which have slightly better night time quality and few extra features.

They also have $35 off today only the new Blackvue DR750S-2CH which is another very high end camera like the F770/F800/Pro cam with similar parking mode feature:

https://www.blackboxmycar.com/colle...blackvue-dr750s-2ch?variant=52982875143&aff=3 coupon code: TODAYONLY750

 

I have a tangential question regarding your dashcam... Can you completely turn off the voice in the F770? I have no interest in having it speak to me about how many motions detections in parking mode it recorded, or anythign like that. But I can't seem to verify that it's completely shutoff-able.

And, add me to the list of folks that this thread has convinced to get a dashcam.

 

I am fairly certain you can mute it completely.