[SentraSE-R]

My mirror car DVR shown in the original photo in this thread, was sent back under warranty, and a replacement has been shipped to me. I had bought two of them, and gave the second one to my daughter. One of the springs for the clamping arms broke, but the suction cups serve to keep the DVR mounted. Aside from its poor sound quality, it's working well.

The mirror-mounted DVR I returned was actually a mix of the first unit's auxiliary camera (the one whose lens quality fell off a cliff), and the second unit's camera. Its mirror backing had developed blotchy areas where the reflected image was mottled. It also had sound quality issues.

My current car DVR is holding up well. I have one in my car, one in my wife's car, and I bought one for my son. Their sound and image quality are excellent. My last video above (the one with the white Stratus) shows the image quality.

One common problem I've found in all these SD card camcorders, is they occasionally write errors to the SD card, and they can't repair those errors with their menu format options. This is true of all four car DVR models I've owned, and my sports camera. I have had problems formatting the corrupted SD cards with my PC, and have had to repartition some SD cards to repair them. The most consistent SD card formatting device I own is my Canon DSLR.

I've learned to look at the car DVR screen on bootup to be sure there's not a card error. I've also found it's best to swap in a newly formatted card every couple of days. I carry extra SD cards with me now.