Customer Ratings & Reviews

I've been having issues with the memory card not reading. It keeps telling me to reinsert the card. Not good.

luckily I bought the warranty coverage because this unit needed to be replaced several times

Product and actual description are worse! Parking mode does not work properly. I have spent more than 100 yuan for the installation fee! So the accessories are already installed in the car, so they cannot be returned. In short, are not recommended for purchase.

At first it was fine until the back camera started to fail, so i returned it.

I purchase this product. But the second camera dosn't work. I don't know what to do it. I want to return it i can not.

Charge port week! Was working only three months For that money

It quit working after a year and it had problems in the begining.

I understood this camera had lane departure alert and red light camera alert. That options are not available. I guess additional parts will be required. Rear cam doesn't work properly without day light.

Worked, but quit, after 1-yr Cobra warranty.. rrrrr

Was in a accident almost a month later I bought it and it did record a thing.

Had the camera mounted in my car on my sunglasses holder to keep it from getting hot due to sun (I live in az.) I work up next morning and rear view camera just had lines through the screen no image. Returned to the store the next day

Camera does not hold a charge. Camera restarts at random when backup camera is plugged in.

The front camera screen kept rotating upside down and the only way to fix is by resetting everything.

Returned the next day. Couldn't read the SD card after 5h of using it

The camera was too small to see when one was driving.

Stopped working after one month of use. This piece of junk do not turn on

I tried this cam for two days. Camera recording quality was soo poor when you preview the video on unit or computer.

Well, this is my first EVER one-star review of a product, but I feel that this is deserved. My wife bought this Cobra dual-channel dashcam for me. I installed it the following day. Installation was relatively painless – the most annoying thing was running and hiding the wires, which were ran mostly through the headliner of the truck. Then came the really annoying part. You know how the Cobra CDR895D is sold as a front and rear camera dash cam? Well, don’t buy it as if you’re going to use the rear camera – at least not without some extra trouble EVERY TIME YOU START YOUR VEHICLE. Upon starting, the dash camera powers up (as long as you have it wired as recommended). The problem is that it RARELY discovers the rear camera. At first I thought it was a fluke with my camera, so I returned it (with no trouble – thanks, Best Buy!) and got a new one. I had to run the wires again (easier the second time) but the problem repeated. After a couple of days of using the camera, here’s what I’ve found. When the camera powers up after the vehicle starts, it almost never detects the rear camera. You can tell if it is recording both cameras by cycling through the views of it you see two small red dots in the upper left of the screen. If I was parked for more than a few hours, it NEVER detected the rear camera. I had to manually turn the power off on the camera and then turn it back on (with the vehicle already running). It would then detect the rear camera. This only takes about ten seconds, but I had to do this every single time, unless I only parked the vehicle for a short time. I checked Cobra’s website to ensure that I had the latest firmware (verified). So, I called Cobra’s service department and spoke with a technical service representative. He was *EXTREMELY HONEST*. He stated that he gets these calls all the time – that the rear camera isn’t detected. He thought it was due to the pin setup on the proprietary Y-cable. Obviously, Cobra had a third-party design/manufacture these. However, we did discuss how I disagreed with him because the longer the vehicle is parked, the more likely it is to not detect the rear camera. Here’s my idea on the engineering/design flaw that Cobra has with this camera. The camera has a built-in rechargeable battery that is used to power the camera while the vehicle is off. This power is needed for the “Parking Mode” so the camera can record when it detects motion for when someone could be breaking in or vandalizing your vehicle. If the camera totally discharges the battery, it will rely on vehicle power when the vehicle is started. All vehicles temporarily kill power to auxiliary loads while starting the engine. The camera detects the vehicle starting because of the extremely short time when the key/ignition goes through auxiliary to “run”. During this time, the camera powers with what little is left in the battery, but the rear camera does not have power. The only thing that makes me second-guess this is that the Battery icon on the camera shows it partially charged. So, here’s my bottom-line recommendation. If you’re buying this camera to record what is ahead of your vehicle, and behind it, don’t buy it. The front camera is good – it has a high-quality lens that records well in low light, but $200 for a front-camera only setup is way too expensive. Unfortunately, having to go through the trouble of powering off the camera and powering it back on after I start my vehicle just to get the rear camera to record is too much, and so is a $200 price tag.

Good camera in general. Be aware that: the wires and connectors are hard to hide. They are to thick to be tucked under headliner or weather stripping. I have to return it, as it does not work for me(2017 Nissan Titan). Did not want to risk damaging anything.

Purchased one. Paid $100 for Best Buy install. Worked fine at first. After a few weeks it decided the SD card was not inserted [it was], and also decided Camera 2 was not connected [it was]. Now when I power on my vehicle and go driving, I get to listen to the annoying chirps the unit makes as it tries to figure out if it wants to work. Absolutely unreliable. Have taken it back to the store from which it was purchased and installed and had the tech re-examine it. Everything seems fine. We tore out some wires and disconnected/reconnected the line from the rear camera. Seemed to work for a bit after that, but now back to having issues. Unfortunately it worked well enough for two weeks that I bought two more units, and now I'm stuck with 3 of these dysfunctional pieces of garbage with $300 worth of installation that I'll never get back. My problem with Best Buy is that the tech at my store didn't really seem concerned that I was having issues. He seemed generally unsupervised and there was no handoff from management to the tech when I presented my problem. I don't know if the problem is with these units themselves or with the quality/method of installation. I received no explanation as to how he wired power to the unit. Perhaps there isn't stable voltage at the point he wired it? I have contacted Cobra support to file a complaint, but I may still return to the Best Buy store to speak with management.