ppashley

Hey Arrwin - Sorry to hear about this. It's really painful to hear of things like this.
I bet if you have some imperfections on the hood, then a bodyshop could sort it out for you.

Cheers

Phil

David in LA

details? pics? I could use something like this where I park

JPS

Forget the car...I hope the meteorite destroys the culprit, and her fat pimp boyfriend!

JPS

BTW...David in LA...you HAVE to put a different pic in the bottom of your sig. Everytime I see a post from you I start to justify $6k for the Gemballa wheels...so FREAKin gorgeOUS!

g_murray

Hi guyz,
I use this:

http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/mi...spycamera.html

I just plop it in between the two rear speakers so that it looks 'forward'. The angle is wide enuf that it can pick up (pretty much) what's going on by the driver and pass door. Obviously if you park your car 'head in' by a wall - then you should face it from the dashboard rearwards. It looks like an air-freshner and the hardware to connect it to your PC (so you can save the files as an .avi or mpeg) is readily available.

Gerry

allill

yesterday I took my car out for a couple hours, parked in a garage where I had a cool solo space. When I got back to it, there was a little kid running around the lot while his mom and her friend loaded their car- really dumb as this kid was like 2 and there were cars pulling in and out. I hoped that he didn't touch my car- when I got to a gas station I found streaks in the paint from someone's fingers and thought it was that kid- then I found a hand print from someone bigger. It should all buff out, just one more reason not to park the beast.

I have never in my life found the need to touch someone else's car without their permission. Even in admiration, I view it in respect. Why the hell can't others do the same!

Randy 1

There are too many variables to calculate the capacity from the page. About how many minutes of video, on high quality, will this thing record?

It's certainly interesting...

2ndof2

Actually, this kind of stuff only happens to people who have nice cars and actually care for them. Never happens to people who have really nice cars and don't care. They could leave them in a battle zone and come away without a scratch. But leave your nice well cared for 993 at the grocery store for 10 minutes and you're sure to have a visit from the insurance agent who will be out to take a report on your "totaled 993."

Sorry, am I being to cynical?

justin993

I'm sure she has a fat pimp boyfriend, that is close to what I thought of when I first read the thread.

NP993

No -- not at all. I was parked in the alley behind my friend's house, in his driveway, where a couple of his roommates have parked their cars for several years now. Nobody has ever suffered the slightest damage, not even from a falling acorn. I leave my car there for a couple of days, the neighbors have a BBQ, and some drunk bimbo decides to have a Corona on the hood of my 911. Perfect, right?

Arrwin

Yes! That is completely true, esp here in NYC.

g_murray

Hi,
I use the following settings and this is what I 'get':

Four fresh AA rechargeable batteries - 8+ hours of 'on' time.
Video capture set to 'Movement Detection'
Video capture set to highest quality
Video capture set to 'fastest'
Capture set to 'record loop'

With 256Mb memory - it can store approx. 17,000 frames that have been 'captured'. Believe me that's a lot. I can usually go back a full week and still see images that have been captured (7) days ago (before they get over-written in loop-mode.)

The unit's ability to allow you to search on a day/date and time basis is excellent. Since I leave it on 'motion detect' - - I can VERY quickly (i.e. in minutes) go thru' what happened in a 'day' - rather than having to e.g. with a VCR, press FF to 'skim' thru boring/inapplicable sections.

One drawback -- it EATS up regular AA alkaline batteries. (So get rechargeables!).

Gerry

TMc993

S-o-o-o-o-o...Following this train of logic, if we want to avoid parking lot damage, we should drive nice cars but not care for them? Just wondering...

Terry