Hope I'm not digging up an old topic, but great topic. I never heard of these brands -- guess I need to start shopping at places other than Circuit ****ty and Worst Buy.

rednblackdawg's former cop post coincides with an experience I had -- 3 cop cars parked at the bottom of a hill (sharing some donuts), no signal from my Cobra detector. Then at visual range the laser frequency lit up -- I hit my breaks, but I wasn't speeding that bad anyway. But it was obvious the cop was pointing a laser at me and may have locked in my speed at that instant. It would have been hard to avoid that if I were really speeding.

Another time the detector was going off big time, this time one of the radio bands. His lights were out, parked in stealth mode. I should have stopped and ask him what kind he was using lol but it was obvious he was using the active speed detector where you see the speed and push a button to lock that speed in. I came back down the road again and he had pulled someone else over.

Of course, radar detectors are just one of many "hints" to alert you. You have to be using your other senses as well. It's really just a fun toy, and it IS actually nice when it alerts you of emergemcy EMS/Fire vehicals. They get mad at us for being in the way, well sometimes we don't see or hear them! I don't know why detectors are illegal some places.

 

I have a K40. i have no clue what the hell it is. all i know is its ****in loud and annoying as hell. but it jambs radar and laser.

 

FYI: Bel = Escort (Escort bought them out and they use identical technology)

 

i had a whistler and it sucked, i thought hey a radar detector is a radar dector right? well i was wrong. i dont think that thing worked once for me, all it picked up was automatic doors. anyway i sold it for more than i paid [sm=badbadbad.gif] tol the kid it worked real good.

 

Passport 8500 has saved my butt on quite a few occasions. I make an effort not to be at the front of a pack of cars, so everyone else is just functioning as extensions of my detector. Cops using K and Ka are easy to pick up, however the laser still scares me crapless. On the 8500, X, K, and Ka all have distinct alert tones, but the laser alert is just a loud screeching "you're screwed now" type of sound. Scares me every time. Laser is the hardest to pickup being as it is such a narrow beam and you don't really get any residuals off of other cars. Not too many laser units where I live apparently though, I can count the amount of times I've been lasered in the past 2 years on one hand.

I've only gotten one ticket with the 8500, and that was because I had my music up too loud and didn't hear it go off. My fault, not the detectors. I love that thing.

 

i thought this was so when i realized that there performance meters were the EXACT same thing only a different body style and different location for the buttons

 

Me and a friend have a joke aobut the worst radar detector that should be made, when it sense falshing lights it should say in a nice voice "you have a ticket"

But back on topic

I have the V1 and i swear by it its so nice picks up signals well in advance for me. The arrows are very convient

Ied reccomend it to anyone

 

I have a V1 and its great. I dont think you can get them anywhere but on the net. I was going on a snowboarding trip two months ago and got a KA hit as soon as I got on the highway. It kept going off for several miles until I reached the trap. Great range. The only problem is new chevy trailblazers brake lights set off the laser band everytime Im behind one. It has save me 10,000,000,000 times and is worth every penny. Yes I kept count.

 

i have the passport 8500, the red version (the blue version is the exact same other than more expensive, and the meret is lighted blue, instead of red). it works great. it does pick up some cop cars when they are driving by me and stuff, but sometimes i will drive by one, and it won't go off it all. i'm not sure why, can anyone explain that?
but for they money, i think the passport 8500 is the best buy. it's not quite the V1, but its like $200 cheaper.

-rob

 

The detector doesn't detect POLICE CARS, just radar. They may not be gunning.