# My dash cam froze to death.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 13, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dash-cam-froze-to-death/743085 "2016-01-13T23:23:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dash-cam-froze-to-death/743085/1 "2016-01-13T23:23:03Z")

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We had a sharp temperature drop last over the weekend – temps plunging down as low as zero. That actually makes it a relatively mild winter so far – I don’t think the temp even got as low as the 20 more than a couple of times.

The last file my camera recorded was in the 9th. I didn’t notice until yesterday that the small monitor was no longer working, and I pulled it out of its base and brought it in warm up, but to no avail. Windows doesn’t recognize it as a device when I hook it up to my PC.

:smack: I knew abstractly this could be a problem with electronics, but with the cam hidden by the rearview mirror I never even gave it a thought. Except of course when I moved it from the old car to my new one. :smack::smack:

I suppose I should feel lucky the two 128 gig SD cards are still good. They cost more than the camera.

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**Author:** ![maxjohnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@maxjohnson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maxjohnson)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dash-cam-froze-to-death/743085/2 "2016-01-14T02:05:13Z")

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Well at least you have the microSD so you didn’t lose any footage of dumb drivers on the road. I just bought a 128gb one for $34 so they’re cheap now.