Radar Detector setups

[HDdave]

Hey yall, I have been looking into getting a radar detector for a while now.. I think the Turner CSL intake sealed the deal because its hard to keep my foot out of it now.. I do a lot of in town driving, but do have some longer highway trips coming up. I would want to get something hidden as much as possible up by the rearview, and would obviously want to hardwire for a clean look. I do love the look of the Valentine V1, but seeing as those are harder to come across I have been looking into the Passport escort 360 max and the Uniden r7.. Anybody have experience with either and some pics of their hardwire setup?

[Titaniu//M]

I have an Escort iX, which is basically the 360 max with one less antenna. I don't like it much, there are tons of falses on the highway. It gets tripped off by CB radios every time a truck goes by. I never hardwired it, but there is an easy way using the homelink connector in the headliner.

My next purchase would probably be a Valentine One Gen 2.

[Rkymtnrider]

Redline ex. The range is unreal. And has gps so it tells me how fast I’m going. If I didn’t need the mph (my speedo is in km), then I’d get the escort 9500ci with a laser jammer and have the rear view mod done that fixes the auto dimming Mirror and adds the radar detector display.

[Shadytype]

I have the v1 gen 1. It has the anti falsing blah blah. Lah. It helps but not all the time. Allegedly the gen 2 is much better.

Get it if you drive a lot. It mostly has saved my ass on shit ass back roads where its easy to do 40mph in a 25mph zone, which is an extra wide double yellow road. Which makes no sense. Not like a populated residential street.

I think detectors will be phased out due to all of the frequencies being used up and they will just false their way into oblivion.

[Obioban]

I also have a V1... but rarely use it because Waze has 99.9% of cops on it around here.

10-15 years ago my license lived or died by radar detection.

[Ramo]

I have a Uniden R3 and it’s awesome. One of the best long range detectors out there. I suggest getting the R7 especially since the range is good plus it has directional arrows now.

[exodus454]

I have the v1 gen 1. It has the anti falsing blah blah. Lah. It helps but not all the time. Allegedly the gen 2 is much better.

Get it if you drive a lot. It mostly has saved my ass on shit ass back roads where its easy to do 40mph in a 25mph zone, which is an extra wide double yellow road. Which makes no sense. Not like a populated residential street.

I have a V1 as well, has saved my ass many times, mostly on back roads. The cops around here all love to drive around with the radar going so it's nice to know when they're getting close.

My experience with Waze around here is about 70% of speed traps are reported so I'm hesitant to rely on it.

I also have a V1connection and used it to setup the custom profile to filter out all the noise, it's not too difficult to do but it made a world of difference in the false alarms. Why it doesn't come set more like this out of the box is ridiculous, but I guess it isn't a 'one size firs all' kind of thing. Mine's hardwired above the rear view mirror. Having experienced other Escort and Passport detectors, I still like my V1. The knob/button is super easy to find and use. My dad has an escort mounted in the same spot in his 135, the buttons on top are terrible.

[Ob917]

Wake is great on the highways but not so much on the back roads. I got a ticket on the backside of Mt Palomar, I really needed a RD that day.

[Icecream]

Wake is great on the highways but not so much on the back roads. I got a ticket on the backside of Mt Palomar, I really needed a RD that day.

Yup, not only that but some of the best canyon/mountain roads have no cell service so waze becomes useless.

[mw14]

9500xi here. Does the job. use the mirror wire tape method and stays out of the way.

[Carbonvert]

1.) Valentine V1 + Bluetooth adapter or a Valentine V1 gen2

2.) Old iPhone running the app V1Driver in the glovebox

3.) External iPhone GPS receiver (link below)

4.) Male to female lightning cable to mount the the GPS receiver at the bottom right corner of the windshield

https://bad-elf.com/collections/plug-in-gps/products/be-gps-1008

I love this setup because I get v1 performance, arrows, and upgradability plus the false alarm reduction of GPS lockout. The phone links to the v1 via Bluetooth automatically everytime I start the car- I never have to touch the iPhone.

The V1 and iPhone are hardwired to switched power.


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[Speed Monkey]

If you live in the People’s Republic of California, don’t affix your detector to the windshield.

I use an Escort battery operated unit. When KA band goes off, it’s time to slow down.

[Slideways]

If you live in the People’s Republic of California, don’t affix your detector to the windshield.

I use an Escort battery operated unit. When KA band goes off, it’s time to slow down.

A person would have to be doing something pretty stupid for an officer to complain about placing a RD to the right and behind the review mirror (a portion of the glass that is already obstructed by the mirror).

[clawhamm3r]

RADAR detectors are pretty useless in the age of LIDAR. It always surprises me to see people clamoring for RDs in the last decade, not sure where you people live lol. Even my sister's PD in a podunk city that is 2 square miles only had one RADAR set up and it was a rig mounted on a car, which the car itself finally got retired. They helped field test my laser jammers when I first installed them.

I ran LJ + RD since 2011and a few years back removed my RD altogether. It was an older model that still triggered on everyone's adaptive cruise control so it made more noise than it was worth, but it only ever alerted on highway patrol cars parked in the median with their onboard rigs which you could see them anyway if you were paying attention, and those guys are always marked on Waze. Money better spent elsewhere and not drawing attention to my car from the police IMO.

I'm sure everyone's gonna come out of the woodwork with their back country stories but I've been all over rural Florida and parts of the southeast (mostly GA) with a RD and personally haven't found it useful. My laser jammers have paid for themselves a hundred times over on the other hand. Only ticket I've gotten since 2011 was a Thanksgiving day air patrol back in 2015. -_-

[Carbonvert]

What LJ do you have?

My car came with an escort zr4 system but I don’t really trust it. It’s 2008 tech, I’d imagine it is pretty much useless today?

Seems like a very expensive cat and mouse game, unless there is now a LJ on the market that can be updated.