I have been wanting one for a long time.Anybody have any choices? 360 protection, laser etc.I am sure everyone here obeys the speed limit and everything.

 

I do !

My radar detector is the sole of my shoe.

 

My radar detector is my Motorola GM300 UHF 16CH police mobile unit in my truck. It's always kept on the local police freq.'s

Mike

 

You mean there is more than Valentine1 radar detectors.

 

Escort & Bel are always competing for the top place. I purchased a Bel through Costco (after calling Bel & Escort to find out exactly what model does what). Very pleased, very accurate unit.

 

For over-the-road trips, a CB radio is the best. The truckers know where every cop is.

On my Florida trips, I am warned about more cops because of the trucker's warnings, than the radar detector beeping.

 

I'm not sure if Million is referring to doing the speed limit or simply out running them when they light him up Anyways, the Valentine does remain the top radar detector. Theres vote #2.

 

I don't know if I could ever justify the cost of the Valentine 1. Granted, I don't own a detector, but I'd probably just go to Best Buy and get the one that had the best features. I don't care if it tells me where the radar is coming from as long as it beeps whenever there's a cop nearby.

XXL

 

Hey I did a post about Radar Detectors in the aftermarket fourm and got around 40 something replys check that out also..

If you can't locate it just type in radar in the search fourm in the aftermarket fourm...

 

lol

 

I have had good luck with Uniden detectors, I have owned at least 8(6 different models) and all have saved me big bucks for simple in attentiveness.

Currently I have the GPSRD, which is the multiband radar with GPS features. I have heard Uniden is discontinuing this model and will have something better this summer. So far I have no complaints on the GPSRD. The GPS feature is much more useful than you would expect. I also have the current Uniden LED and beep only model for the wife and it is actually better for every day driving in my opinion due to simplicity.

While the GPS doesn't have the graphic type display and features of the usual GPS, the GPSRD integrates the GPS so that the radar detector section can understand and REMEMBER radar traps and false alarm locations. It has something like a 1,000 location memory that will automatically detect the signal, analyse if it is in a new locationand tell you so, and flag it if it is a false alarm and store it for future recall and ignore the false alarm next time thru. It also remembers real alarms and will beep 1 mile before you get to the alarm location. Also keeps average running speed and of course has compass functions. Kind of neat to watch your longitude/latitude coordinates change as you drive.

Only gripe I have is that I don't care for red LED text displays, but I guess it is required due to the large amount of info the GPSRD can display.

A word of warning... some windshields have a metalic coating inside them that you can't see but which decreases radar detection range drastically and it kills the GPS signal so the GPSRD constantly flashes the searching for satellite display. My chebby has SUNGUARD and the GPS features are useless in that car. Some high end Fords also have similar glass. My F250 loves the GPSRD.

Over about 15 years of use, these are the kind of features I like... Automatic mute, colored LED display and tone for signal strength and type indication. Loud speaker. All angle radar detection. Dim function.

I don't like voice alerts since the speakers are too cheesy to understand. I don't care for text displays since I don't have time to read while driving. You can learn the beep and color code alerts easy enough.

Since I have bought radar detectors I have not gotten any radar tickets even though I might have deserved a couple. Most radar traps are set to generate revenue, not increase safety, at least IMHO, so I don't feel guilty cruising along with a detector, doing 5mph over the limit. I do feel guilty when going 10 over so sue me. If you want a really juicy ticket, come on down to my small berg town where the speed drops from 55 to 40 to 30 in about 1 city block and the cops have radar burns on their foreheads from so much use. I have seen tickets well over $500 for some poor stupid fools who speed thru town. Even little tickets are well over $200. So tell me you don't want a detector then. My detector is always on within a mile of my town.

Just my not PC opinion.

Jim Henderson

 

yep jim i believe that tickets are for revenue also.I always said if they were truly for safety they could put these partitions in the medias of interstates and on the sides of roads.Write on the partitions that there is a patrol car behind this wall or something to this effect.Then you would never know if someone was behind the wall or not and only the bravest ones would speed.

 

The best radar detector would be to relocate to one of western states that has higher speed limit.
I used to have several radar detectors when I lived in IND with Cobra, Uniden, and Whistler. Uniden seems to work best for me, couldn't remember the specific model number. However it gets outdated every two years or so. After moving here in New Mexico, with their speed limit of 75. I didn't need the detector anymore as 75 is plenty for me and my gas thirsty F150.

 

3 miles west of my home is the town of Oakland, TN, where the cops spend 90% of each shift targeting speeders. They will stop you for a 3 mph violation. The local sheriff has admited to me that the police chief in Oakland is "****" and that I should never exceed the posted limit at all in that town.

Actually, the cops there often pull people over outside their jurisdiction. I wait, longingly, for the day somebody takes the Oakland cops to court....

Theo

 

Yeah, there are many towns in Tennessee where they are STRICT on the speed limits. I have used various radar detectors, but none of them has been nearly as good as the Bel that I'm using right now. They are a little more expensive, but they do a MUCH better job than the Unidens and Whistlers.