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If you're considering fitting a dashcam, I'd do some more research on what's already on the market before committing to buying the Audi unit. For the price of the Audi unit, I'd be comparing the likes of the Thinkware F800 and Blackvue DR900S as possible alternatives. There's bound to be other models out there as well, but these two are the ones that spring to mind.

The Audi UTR looks the part and sounds the part (from a marketing perspective), but the reviews I've read on it point to it being an expensive and nasty piece of kit. There seems to be absolutely no technical specifications available so you can compare with other brands, it's very susceptible to the types of microSD cards that it will work with, and quality control seems very poor. Some people can't get anything other than the supplied 8GB card to work with it, yet others have 64GB cards working. The 'car finder' app only seems to work via a Wi-Fi, so no idea how that will work with finding your car in a car park. One minute video segments with no way of changing it, so have fun finding that one clip that you need on a 64GB card. No button to save an 'event', to prevent it from being overwritten. App software that doesn't appear to have been tested thoroughly.

The above is a sample of what I've gleamed from other peoples experiences of the UTR, so has to be taken with a pinch of salt, as none of it takes into account the 'human' factor.

BTW Even after doing your research, you can still make the wrong decision, as I discovered when I bought a Nextbase 512GW. I only found out afterwards that it displays an ugly bright yellow Nextbase logo in the corner of the screen which can't be removed, yet their cheaper models place a simple 'Nextbase' text at the very bottom corner of the screen next to the GPS co-ordinates and speed data. Nextbase's explanation for this was so that they could identify video footage that was recorded on their devices. Imagine all your photos taken on your expensive Canon or Nikon camera having their logos emblazoned upon them.