is it worth buying it?

ok my Fly 12 front camera has given up and my varia 515 is nearly at is end of life , battery on both devices have either given up or are about to give up, I defiantly don't want to spend nearly 400 Euro's on a new Fly12 at the moment but I don't want to ride without a Varia. I had hoped that both devices would manage until a improved version on the Varia 715 had been released but I guess I'm not that lucky.

I think , I can overlook most of the Varia 715 issues which seem to be many but would love to hear honest feedback on the lack of image stabilization, are people able to see the license plate numbers in case of close paths ?

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0 NeilJonesOnline 10 months ago

I've had no problems with mine, including the police being happy to take action against a lorry driver following a close pass based on the footage from my RCT715.

0 chrisgofaster 9 months ago

No problems with mine the footage is really good and i have GoPros as well. The audio isn't as good but yeah no regrets

0 1008054 8 months ago

License plates are most of the time visible in the footage. The thing though is heavy as a brick and mine just stopped working after 9months. No sign of life. So, I am somewhat sceptic towards general build quality.

0 7010509 6 months ago

My varia 715 take more hunders photos/ videos while I ride on the bike path, no vehicle behind me. It gives false signals because of 180° viewing angel.It feels the vehicle on the highway 15 meters away to me.

0 7010509 6 months ago

No, it isn't worth.

0 murielhaire 6 months ago in reply to 7010509

Hi Please can you tell me if your Garmin RTC715 light and radar pair as I can only get the radar to pair with my Garmin 1040. Thanks. Muriel

0 7010509 6 months ago in reply to murielhaire

Radar and ligth contact to Edge 530 together.

www8.garmin.com/.../GUID-E14CA6F1-488C-4544-BB6E-AB61D3EFDCBA.html

0 NeilJonesOnline 4 months ago in reply to 7010509

I'm interested why you're concerned about how many videos your Varia is taking, don't you just leave it recording all the time? That's the way most people use dash cams, and it'll record for hours before it automatically starts over-writing old footage.

0 chrisgofaster 4 months ago in reply to NeilJonesOnline

I just have it recording continuously with the light on flash. Seems to last about 5 hours. I use a 128gb card and it lasts a long time overwriting the earliest video. Just switch on and forget

0 7275272 21 days ago

Purchased the 715 couple of months ago on a sale, couldn't wait any longer for the next version. Was easy to pair with the new 1050 I picked up as well. Have used it on a few rides and quite happy with the video quality. Yes, would love video stabilization, but for my purposes of using it for safety, it's been great so far. I plug the Varia and view the videos on my laptop and can make out virtually all of the license plates (I only ride during the day). Pretty happy with it so far. We'll see over the spring/summer when I do longer rides and see what the battery life really is like.