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Old 01-26-2008, 06:07 PM
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Default Can anyone suggest a good radar detector?

I received a Valentine One as a gift, but when I looked at the website, they don't seem to offer additional sensors. I don't want to attach the unit to the windshield and deal with the cables. My preference would be something that I can install at the front and rear of the car, with a small in-dash display. Is there anything like that out there?

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Default V1 is the only way to go

deal with the cords... there is nothing even close
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I went with calibre K40.

Pricey & completely hidden. It's saved my butt on numerous occasions!!

http://www.k40.com/home_main.html
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Love the arrows.
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Default Got to agree here - Very thing I have read said this is the best

and would be the one I would get if I choose
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and it takes like 15 minutes to hardwire it and hide the cord
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Less if you use ELEVENS's method. ;-)
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Default I have a Escort 8500 x50, and am very happy with it...

...The Valentine crowd will say "gotta have the arrows". I don't get that one? If the radar source is beside or behind you, you'll be out of range shortly. If you can't be bothered to drop down to the speed limit for a few seconds [maybe the better part of a minute], then I guess the arrows are for you.

Personally, if there's traffic radar bouncing off my car...regardless of where it's located...I'm gonna run at/near the speed limit. That doesn't seem that big an inconvenience.

Arrows aside, the Escort has a bogey counter, signal strength indicator [for each source, something the V1 lacks], and ultimately is [as far as I can tell] every bit as good [or slightly better?] a detector as the V1 for less money.

The arrows are a nice gimmick, but are very unlikely to keep you from getting pulled over. That said, the V1 is by all indications a very good detector, but I'm not at all convinced it stands alone atop the heap, as some would claim.
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Default I've got a V1 in all three of my vehicles

The only time I have been pulled over in the last 8 years was during a multi-car laser trap using a laser gun mounted on a tripod hiding behind a road sign on an overhead bridge. The V1 laser warning went off, I breaked, but they singled me out of the pack to get the ticket (probably my car and license plate, didn't have the RS 4 then). The V1 has saved my butt so many times it has more than paid for itself. The arrows and bogey counters are great.

Elevens' hardwire installation is so easy and looks great.
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Default I have a V1 but would like to get the new escort with the GPS chip in it so it can be programmed to

ignore false alerts.


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