What is your favorite radar detector?
06-14-2015, 08:51 PM
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What is your favorite radar detector?
Hey guys i'm in the market for a new investment. Anyone have any good advice on a reliable radar detector? I drive mostly highway in Georgia. I was thinking the Escort Passport 9500ix?
06-14-2015, 09:27 PM
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Valentine 1
Tons of warning - amazing advance notice even over hills and around bends. Has saved me many times and well worth the cost.
We occasionally send them back for software upgrades. My biggest complaint might be that we should be able to download software updates rather than physically send back the unit - but we just sent our second unit back and they gave us a new one for the cost of the upgrade.
Upgrades have been worthwhile. We started having all sorts of false alarms in Ohio, and turns out the state was using some sort of radar planted along certain highways creating almost a constant false alert. The upgrade gave us a solution. We also had lots of false alarms coming from cars with forward/rear facing cameras. The software update solved the problem.
By far the most reliable unit we've used.
Tons of warning - amazing advance notice even over hills and around bends. Has saved me many times and well worth the cost.
We occasionally send them back for software upgrades. My biggest complaint might be that we should be able to download software updates rather than physically send back the unit - but we just sent our second unit back and they gave us a new one for the cost of the upgrade.
Upgrades have been worthwhile. We started having all sorts of false alarms in Ohio, and turns out the state was using some sort of radar planted along certain highways creating almost a constant false alert. The upgrade gave us a solution. We also had lots of false alarms coming from cars with forward/rear facing cameras. The software update solved the problem.
By far the most reliable unit we've used.
06-14-2015, 10:02 PM
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I had a Valentine 1 and got tired of all of the false alerts. I've had a Passport Max for quite a while now. Between its ability to use GPS to learn the locations of false alert sources and suppress them in the future and its integration with Escort Live to report recent alerts from other detectors in your direction of travel I find its usefulness quite superior. The newer sticky cup mount is pretty rock solid too and stays put for months.
Some may argue that one has a slight advantage over the other in maximum range. However, the range I get with this is more than a plenty and when I get an alert in an area where it has learned all of the false sources, I know it is very likely the real thing. And while pretty much any detector reporting a laser hit is most likely telling you about it too late, the fact that Escort Live tells you that others have spotted it before you get there is the only viable defense... at least if you have enough users in your community for you to get adequate coverage. Austin is pretty good in this regard.
Some may argue that one has a slight advantage over the other in maximum range. However, the range I get with this is more than a plenty and when I get an alert in an area where it has learned all of the false sources, I know it is very likely the real thing. And while pretty much any detector reporting a laser hit is most likely telling you about it too late, the fact that Escort Live tells you that others have spotted it before you get there is the only viable defense... at least if you have enough users in your community for you to get adequate coverage. Austin is pretty good in this regard.
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06-14-2015, 10:15 PM
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Valentine 1 rocks!!!
06-14-2015, 10:16 PM
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I recently bought a Valentine 1 and have had Escorts in the past. I love the V1 and recommend it without hesitation. They have added a Junk K filter and combined it with another filter called Traffic Monitor. New V1's have it enabled by default. One had to know to find it and then turn it on in the previous s/n range. I think older versions are software upgradeable.
I always thought the arrows were kind of an interesting gimmick but having recently completed a 1,000 mile road trip found them to be really useful. The V1 saved my a$$ several times.
http://www.valentine1.com/v1info/junk_k_fighter/
I always thought the arrows were kind of an interesting gimmick but having recently completed a 1,000 mile road trip found them to be really useful. The V1 saved my a$$ several times.
http://www.valentine1.com/v1info/junk_k_fighter/
06-14-2015, 10:58 PM
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Had a Valentine 1 and have an Escort 9500ix now. No comparison. Maybe I didn't have the latest updates on the Valentine but it just seems like a dated concept compared to the Escort. Warnings are every bit is timely as the Valentine (if not earlier) and the ridiculous amount of false alarms with the Valentine are gone. The Escort has GPS capability and 'learns" the location and frequency of locations that keep triggering false alerts and blocks those automatically.
06-14-2015, 11:13 PM
#13
Nordschleife Master
I always thought the arrows were kind of an interesting gimmick but having recently completed a 1,000 mile road trip found them to be really useful. The V1 saved my a$$ several times.
http://www.valentine1.com/v1info/junk_k_fighter/
http://www.valentine1.com/v1info/junk_k_fighter/
06-14-2015, 11:18 PM
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I have had my V1 for 5 years and am ticket free. I recently had it upgraded and purchased the V1 Connection LE which enables users to connect to their smart phone via Bluetooth for a threat picture. I can also adjust the V1 logic via the smart phone and see the frequencies being used.