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[Perfectlap]

well it does point to a boat load of false alarms but they aren't ALWAYS false alarms. But regardless, the split second that the arrow points behind you its all moot, I can exhale and go on with my driving.
I guess its a matter of preference do you want to listen to a diminishing beep or do you prefer to see immediate confirmation that a threat (false or real) is safely behind you.

Personally, what sold me on the V1 was that so far unless I'm wrong its still the best at picking up Lazer from a trailing vehicle. At least three times I was warned of a trooper that was a few cars back. One time the trooper followed me for about a mile and then sped into the passing lane and pulled over a poor sap in an M3.
It is EXTREMELY difficult to pickup Lazer from that position.

[Lil bastard]

Don't want to start a , but over many years of driving, I have a clean record and have never owned any detector.

I realize that different areas of the country place greater emphasis on setting Speed Traps, that some people just find a detector reassuring, and for some it's a gottahave item for whatever reason.

Personally, I think they're expensive (despite claims that there is a PayBack, wouldn't have been for me), they give you something else to hide or worry about being stolen, and there are still plenty of people who use them, but get citations nonetheless.

Yea, I may get a speeding ticket some day, but it won't be because the detector didn't warn me, it'll be because I have exceeded the posted limit. I prefer to use my money on more fun mods. But, my motto is always: Your car + Your $$ = Your choice! Good luck with it.

[Perfectlap]

^ you are a lucky man.
In this neck of the woods we are a densely populated lot. On a 30 minute trip to Costco I will pass through six different municipalities with at least three (on my last trip) police cars looking for speeders. On the way home I took the Parkway and counted two Staties looking for sheep. Popping people going as little as 10 miles over the limit has become big business in states like NJ where there are more cars than people. With insurance companies looking to harpoon you for so much as one point on your record, I think you have to be nuts to be driving even 5 miles over the limit without a detector.

[Brucelee]

No detector, no tix in 39 yrs of driving.

Lucky? YOU BET!!!!!!!!


Funny thing is my son always has the lastest valentine and he gets tix pretty regularly.

Go figure.

[Hops]

Originally Posted by Brucelee

Funny thing is my son always has the lastest valentine and he gets tix pretty regularly.

Go figure.

He obviously thinks it is like deploying the shield on the Enterprise or something. The one ticket I got since buying a detector was a VASCAR ticket from an unmarked Mustang GT with tinted windows. That taught me my lesson. You must keep your guard up at all times.

Originally Posted by Jeph

There is only ONE THING the the Valentine 1 can do that the 8500 & 9500 can't...

There is ONE THING my wife can do that my best friend can't, but I find it rather important. Don't knock the arrows. I like my RX65 quite a bit for city driving, but once you've been stuck doing 55 for 20 minutes because there is an officer a mile behind you shooting oncoming traffic, then you appreciate the arrows. V1 is the only detector that lets you confidently keep distance between you and the threat behind you.

[blueillusion97]

Its good to know that X band is not used here and that i can turn it off. Because i used to have a radar detector a year or two ago for few weeks and X alert kept going off even on a highway constantly

[RandallNeighbour]

Hops, don't keep it up about the arrows with Jeph. He's in arrow denial in a bad way and he's not ready to see the light... the light behind the arrows. And that's ok because we have the arrows and enjoy the fact that we know where the threat is at all times. Jeph lives on the edge not knowing and it must make driving fast more adventurous.

Blue, after you wrote that last comment, I thought to myself, "Now you're gonna get a ticket from a cop running an old, outdated X band gun. Just watch."