The price index
What it actually costs to fit a dash cam in the UK
Fitting a dash cam in the UK costs between £30 and £150, depending on who does it and how awkward your car is. Only one company publishes a fixed price: Nextbase charges £139, including a hardwire kit. Halfords is the biggest fitter in the country and publishes no price at all. Five figures circulate for it, from £30 to £80.
Below are all 18 prices we could source, each with the person or page it came from and the date it was quoted. We say so rather than pick one where sources contradict each other. Last reviewed 9 July 2026.
| Who fits it | Reported price | Comes to you | What to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIY | £15 to £30 | n/a | Kit only. Your time, and the risk is yours. |
| Halfords | £35 to £80 disputed | No, in store | Publishes no price. Sources disagree by a factor of two. |
| Auto electrician | £30 | Sometimes | The trade the forums consistently recommend over the chains. |
| Independent garage | £30 to £150 | No | Wide spread. A difficult car can take four hours. |
| Mobile fitter | £70 to £145 | Yes | Call-out fee on top. Regional pricing varies by about 50%. |
| Manufacturer | £139 | Yes | Nextbase. The only fixed published price in the UK. |
Why this page exists. Every UK page we checked quotes a range like "£55 to £150" and cites nothing. Two AI searches run in the same week returned two different Halfords prices, £30 and £55, neither sourced. We could not find a single page on the UK web comparing fitter types with dated, attributed figures. So we built one.
Halfords
The biggest fitter in the UK, and the only one whose price nobody can state with confidence.
Halfords hardwired mine for £35 including the kitMoneySavingExpert forum (Birdman2015) ·
Halfords publishes no price. This figure conflicts with the £70 and £55/£80 figures below.
Forum thread dated December 2020. Still ranking for 2026 cost queries, which tells you how little else exists.
is she entitled to a refund of the £70 she pays to have it fitted?MoneySavingExpert forum (johnwhat) ·
Twice the £35 figure, three years later. Nobody reconciles the two.
Not corroborated on any Halfords-owned page we could fetch. Autodoc cites no source and its author is a fictional persona.
Cites no Halfords source and shows no date. We include it because it is what the web repeats, not because we can stand behind it.
Auto electrician
The trade the forums keep pointing people towards.
Independent garage
The widest spread, because car complexity drives the labour time.
The high end. A difficult car, not a typical job.
I had the same dashcam fitted by avrmobiles. Can recommend them and cheaper than rac. £333 at the moment.MoneySavingExpert forum (purpleparrotuk) ·
Checkatrade returned HTTP 403 to us on two attempts, so we could not confirm this figure at its stated source. It is a citation of a citation.
Mobile fitter
They come to you, and they charge a call-out fee for it.
Published by the fitter selling the service, so not a neutral figure.
Published by the fitter selling the service. Useful mainly as evidence that regional pricing varies by roughly 50%.
Manufacturer
One fixed, published, checkable price exists in this market.
The only fixed, published, checkable fitting price we could find anywhere in the UK.
DIY
Parts only. The saving is real and so is the risk.
What it costs when it goes wrong
No page selling you a fitting service will publish these. They are the reason the cheapest quote is not always the cheapest job.
The retailer has agreed to pay £290 for the VW dealer to fix it.PistonHeads (PF62) ·
Questions
How much does it cost to fit a dash cam in the UK?
Sourced figures on this page run from £30 for a local auto electrician to £150 for a four hour hardwire on a difficult car. Nextbase is the only company publishing a fixed price: £139 including a hardwire kit. Most straightforward front camera fits fall between £30 and £80.
How much does Halfords charge to fit a dash cam?
Halfords does not publish a price. We could not obtain one: their service page renders no price to a crawler and did not load in a real browser across three attempts on 9 July 2026, and their help centre tells you to go and check the website. The figures in circulation are £30, £35, £55, £70 and £80, spread across four different sites, none of which cite Halfords.
Does hardwiring cost extra?
The kit is £15 to £30. Whether labour costs more depends on the fitter. One MoneySavingExpert user reported Halfords hardwiring two cars for £35 each including the kit, which is the same as some quoted plug in fits. A complex hardwire on an awkward car took four hours and cost £150.
Is it cheaper to fit a dash cam yourself?
On parts alone, yes: a hardwire kit is £15 to £30 against £30 to £150 for a fit. The risk is the reason people pay. One documented job wired a dash cam into the airbag circuit and cost £50 to put right. Another damaged the cable routing and cost £290 in dealer repairs.
Why do dash cam fitting quotes vary so much?
Three reasons show up in the sourced figures: whether the camera itself is included, whether the fit is hardwired or plugged into the 12V socket, and where you are. One mobile fitter publishes £110 to £145 for London and the South East against £70 to £95 for Sheffield and Newcastle for the same job.