Radar Detector Recommendations
 

I purchased my first 370Z last month. Now that I am completely comfortable in the car I feel my right foot seems to get into it a bit :icon18:. Any recommendations for a radar detector? Thanks

escort passport max 360. it should be the king of detectors

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V1 running YaV1
 

V1 paired to an Android phone over BT running YaV1. Period.

My own setup is a V1 on a Blendmount, powered by a pass thru Invisicord paired over BT on Valentine's Android dongle to a cheap, unlocked LG Realm running VaV1 sitting on a Garmin vent mount.
Don't buy anything until you've beat the linked site to death;

Radar Detector & Laser Jammer Forum

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Hey Zipper104. Are radar detectors legal on the 'wet' coast of Canada? In the Socialist Federation of Ontario, radar detectors are a BIG no no.

I have to agree with Zipper104, even though I have not tried the V1 in any form I have been doing some of my own testing with 9500ix and escort max 2. While they are great, they don't show the direction, which helps a lot.

Question to Zipper 104, does the android phone paired with V1 need to be connected to a phone Internet network or does it just use the software on the phone and gps?

Does this radar detectors really work, other than go beep beep all the time!.....seems like an annoying waste of money!

The v1 is known for beeping all the time, that's why you pair it with the phone which will quiet it down to the level of the gps enabled escort radars, or maybe better. I don't have first hand experience with V1

Escort Redline has paid for itself so many times.

Can be chatty but very very sensitive. I turn off x band as no one uses it here in oklahoma.

Radar Detector Recommendations
 

As part of the discussion, I also used redline for a few weeks, it's very sensitive as Blighter said. But the K band is constantly lit up, so it beeped all the time for me. Same happens with other escort radars but if I drove through the same place a few times it would remember to mute itself out because of GPS.

I wouldn't want to really mute out all of K band because some cops still use it, but I pretty much ignore all K band alerts anyway. Don't know if that's the right thing to do though haha

Have you been talking to my wife? On a recent road trip, she especially enjoyed the drives through VA where I unhooked the radar detector that, incidentally, she gave me for Christmas several years back.

Despite her complaining about it on the trip, she asked me if I would like a newer model this Christmas :tup:

I have the escort 9500 with gps and really like the feature of turning off known false alarms. I find it to be excellent overall. I've never used a V1, but it is also highly rated. Interestingly enough, Escort is coming out with a new design, Max 360, that includes directional arrows and a guarantee that they will pay your speeding ticket from radar or laser.
https://www.escortradar.com/assets/i...360_full-1.jpg

max360 looks good. i need arrows

but my v1's reminds me of this..

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

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41S43M5FHYL.jpg

:rofl2:

:iagree:
dat_radar detector ^^

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

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.

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).

yah id just wait for the max360 if from escort.

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

i honestly don't believe in radar detectors. by the time it alerts you, chances are you're already caught. with the case of a laser, it won't alert you unless it's shot at you and by that time, the LEO already has clocked you.

with the cost of a radar detector, i'd much rather invest in a radar/laser jammer.

I have an Escort Passport Max 2 hardwired with a Blend Mount. I absolutely love the set up and its ability to cancel out false alarms such as automatic doors and known stationary radars. Being able to have the OLED colored amber to match the Z is a nice touch as well. The only downside is it doesn't have the arrows such as a V1 and the new Max 360. If the Max 360 was out 3 months ago I would have purchased it when I got my Z.

Yup.
Also legal in AB, WA, OR and California. I can't recall if they are also legal in SK or not. For sure not in MB.

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The Android phone connects to the V1 by Bluetooth using a dongle from V1. No cell service required. YaV1 uses the phone's GPS. You can get YaV1 from Google Play.
The Invisicord I have has a pass through. The cord is double-ended on one end (if that makes sense) with two RJ plugs. One goes into the dongle linking it to the V1, the other to power the V1. The opposite end of the cord has two pins that pull power from the Z's self-dimming mirror. With the Blendmount and the Invisicord everything is up at the mirror. I have the dongle attached to the V1 using double-sided tape so I just plug the two RJ plugs in right next to each other; one into the V1, the other into the dongle.
The LG phone I run the YaV1 app on is a simple, inexpensive prepaid Boost Mobile phone that I unlocked so every time it's fired up it bypasses the annoying activation screen. YaV1 is Android only, so I can't run it on my IPod or IPhone.
An LG Realm costs well under $100, but I believe it is now discontinued. There are a bunch of other inexpensive phones that people are using. All you need to know can be found on the site I linked to. I am no expert. I got everything from that site. I recall a member here put me onto it. Edconline?

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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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Junk fighter
 

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

Lucky buggers. I have to put in for a transfer to the Pacific side of this continent. Legal to have radar detectors, fun curvaceous roads plus the best mountains and snow for skiing. WTF am I still doing in Ontario???

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

Laser bounces and scatters. I have been saved by laser detection a few times. It only really helps on the open high way when there is a decent amount of road between you and the cop. I will agree laser detection isn't that useful in the city or on twisty roads. Laser detection needs distance to be helpful.

BTW radar jamming is very illegal. Laser jamming is still legal in most states (IIRC) but I heard newer laser guns can detect laser jamming. Laser jamming might get you out of a ticket but the cops will know you are using it and what would keep them from pulling you over and harassing you over it.

Are you running in full Logic mode?

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Valentine1 and Waze

So is speeding, and possessing a laser/radar detector (in certain states).

And unless the LEO is a moron or didn't calibrate their laser/radar device, though the laser can scatter, the margin of error is typically minimal and spot-on. Even with the older laser/radar guns, they will know if a car is equipped with a jammer because once they scan that car, it will show up as blank.

I've owned my share of detectors and it always has alerted me whenever I have been scanned, though luckily I wasn't speeding. IMO, the detectors only give the driver a FALSE sense of security that s/he won't get caught, but to each their own.

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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I agree that radar detectors give people a false sense of security. I mainly use one for informational purposes. Like to know when the man is watching. :icon17: Especially when on out of state road trips! :tup:

It is not illegal to posses/own a radar/detector in any state. Now the use of a detector is illegal only in VA and DC (military bases too). Any body that says that owning a radar detector in VA is illegal doesn't know what they are talking about. I live in VA and I do not use my detector I while in VA. When I travel out of state I have my detector buried in the trunk until I cross the state line.

Now some states do have laws regarding things being attached to/ blocking your windshield which in a way prohibits the use of a detector. This just means that you just have to get more creative in mounting one. :icon17:

Using the on board buttons to change modes on a V1 is a PITA. I use the bluetooth dongle and V1s iPhone app to switch modes.

BTW you can use a splitter like this one, RJ11 Splitter, to run the bluetooth dongle and the remote screen at the same time on a V1. :tup:

I've always wondered, what is VA's justification for banning radar detector use?

Stick up their a$$? http://fans.oilers.nhl.com/community...t/th_shrug.gif

I figured some conservatives were running the state, but there has to be more to it than that. I'm sure folks have voted to repeal this.

Doesn't really affect me directly. I've only traveled through VA once or twice in the last decade. Generally I prefer to travel west :)

Sucks for the people that live there. I was reading some comments about some time back. I recall a chief or sheriff claiming a radar detector caused a multi-car pile up because the lead car nailed the brakes when their detector went off.

Funny as it's explicitly against FCC regulations (federal law) to make radar detectors (or any device that pulls signals from the air) illegal. It's the same reason why homeowner's associations cannot ban people from putting satellite dishes on their roofs. Someone could take the state of VA to court if they had the money or time and they would very likely win. But who would waste the time?

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