Radar Detector Recommendations

kenchan

max360 looks good. i need arrows

but my v1's reminds me of this..

https://img0.etsystatic.com/058/0/94...19194_j8kd.jpg

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birdman71

dat_radar detector ^^

might have to look into investing into the Passport Max 360 just for that guarantee haha!

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Bshields22

Escort 8500 X50. This is the foundation for all the good radar detectors. All the new ones have all these GPS and false radar nonsense additions jacking the price up to an unreasonable amount for the performance needed. My 8500 X50 grabs Ka band (Hwy Patrol Radar) from miles away on open road. ALL radar detector are USELESS in the city because of the close quarters and most of the time it is LIDAR which is what biker cops use. Those guns are instant on and instant off which means once you detect a signal its already too late. Radar detects can filter X-Band, K-band which are car alarms and auto doors. If you buy and 8500 X50 for example you filter out all band except Ka. Once you do that all radar signals you receive will 100% be Hwy Patrol.

Zipper 104

Great, except where the popo still run K band. Filter that and you could be bear meat. I took a trip across WA state this past summer. I was just in the process of getting my setup dialed in and was getting a constant stream of K alerts from behind me. I was ready to just pull the plug on the V1 and give up I was so pissed. Just then a WA State patrol cruiser passed me and the K alerts switched to originating ahead of me. The cop pulled away and then over onto the shoulder a few miles ahead waiting, hoping to nab one of us in the pack he just passed. When I got there he didn't even gun us. We were all on the limit and he could see he wasn't gonna get anyone. When I got home I checked that website....sure enough; WA Staties still run some K band.
The biggest bummer is some of the newer cars with lane divergence and blind spot warning stuff set off K, so that can be a drag. YaV1 can be set to automatically filter particular frequencies so that's one of the advantages to running it along with a V1. I wouldn't be able to put up with the V1 squawking all the time without it.

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Bshields22

Interesting. Thanks for the insight. Perhaps CA, NV and AZ use Ka only. Who knows...maybe i like to live dangerously lol

Jsolo

http://i.imgur.com/tXhhMkM.jpg -- max speed recorded from a track run.

I use the 9500ix on road trips. You do have to learn how to interpret the alerts for the detector to be effective. No detector will prevent you from getting "popped". Same for laser, very quick on/off.

Around town, the gps enabled units are useful for alerting of redlight/speed cameras (both common around chicago).

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kenchan

yah id just wait for the max360 if from escort.

jcosta79

Valentine 1

Everything else is sub par. And for those complaining that the V1 gives a lot of false alarms, they have not tried the newer versions. (Even though they look the same on the outside, the inside of the V1 has been redone numerous times) The new filters in full Logic mode are VERY effective. My V1 very rarely gives a false alarm.

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VABAM

I can attest to this. I have an older V1 that gives a lot of false alarms. This got worse when blind spot monitoring and adaptive cruise control started to become more prevalent. Earlier this year I bought a new V1 and the difference was dramatic. Still get false alarms but it is not bad.

The V1 is sensitive but I rather get a false alarm than no alarm

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kenchan

yah, i should get the junk-k fighter update this winter for sure..

Zipper 104

I got my V1 this past summer. It has the JF update. Trust me; it's a noisy b**** even with JF.
Around town YaV1 will emulate Savvy. Savvy lets you set the V1 so you don't get any alerts under any speed you choose. The Savvy module can be purchased from Valentine and plugs into your OBD port. If you run the YaV1 app the software will emulate it so you don't need to buy it.
No. I don't work for, or have anything to do with Valentine. I just did the research before I laid out the coin.
Once again, the site I linked to is all you'll need...and no, I'm not connected to them either.

I'm half thinking of selling my setup. I can't be bothered to put it into the car except on road trips, and since I'm an old fooker I'm really careful where I do speed. And for me, speeding is 20 over, tops. Not like when I was a lead footed young'un.

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jcosta79

Are you running in full Logic mode?

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Hemingway

Valentine1 and Waze

Zipper 104

I wouldn't even know how to dial up logic mode. I have always run it through YaV1.....every second I've used it. LM is something in V1 and not YaV1, right?

I must look in the manual and see how it's done. I'm really not all that familiar with the controls on the V1. I never use 'em except to turn it on. YaV1 has a mode where the display on the V1 is black so it doesn't light up like a christmas tree at night. YaV1 runs on the phone down low in the car. All the alerts go there.

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