Fuggin Radar Detector!!

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Only had my cobra for about 2 months now. just yesterday, i see my K band goin crazy, but hear nothing. thank god i saw it or i would have been pulled over. my sound doesn't work at all. i tried pressin mute, once twice three times, 324325 times. also, its stuck on highway. no idea whats wrong? anyone? i restarted it several times. no sound. unpluged and pluged in, no sound...hmmmm

Did ya fiddle with the dial on the side? Also, IIRC, you push and hold city/highway to switch it, right? Anyway, speaking of/bashing Cobras, I've got two tickets in the past year with no warning at all. I need to take it back to the evil Best Buy and get a new one.

omg.....i'm slow.......at first i thought u were talkin bout svt cobra's.....and i was thinkin that maybe they had like a factory installed radar detector....

PS-other than the valentine1 and the passport what are some quality radar detectors

Originally posted by Faboo:

PS-other than the valentine1 what are some quality radar detectors

I didn't know there were any others

I've always been happy with my p.o.s. Whistler.

I use the little round indicator thingy in the dash to help me regulate my speed & avoid getting tickets.

you may of heard of either v1 or an escort 8500. pretty much everything else is just a waste of $$. do a search...

You should by A good CB Radio. I don't think It would look good In A car But That's what I use In My Big truck I think It's One of the Best defenses. Or you can get one of those Hand Held Job's

My K40 works good, they give you a year warranty, and they pay speeding tickets for that year as well, I have owned mine since December of last year, and to this date I have yet to get a ticket, it has saved my ass many times, so I can see why they give you the garantee. I thought about a V1 but that was way to much to pay for a radar detector IMO. IIRC I paid around $240 shipped from sounddomain.com

Originally posted by Specialist23:
you may of heard of either v1 or an escort 8500. pretty much everything else is just a waste of $$. do a search...

lol. my the vector 985 is the same thing as the 8500. ive used it for over a year and its saved me over 15 times at least. you just have to know what to look for. paying less than $300 for a radar detector is a waste. the v1 isnt even that great. had one and it was worse than the 985. the 8500 is the best prolly, but they dont sell it where i work and i got the 985 for only 150, which is less than half the original cost. if i had to pay full price, the 8500 is where my money is.

if you are going to spend 240 bucks on a radar detector, you might as well by a V1, or a valentine 1 as more people know it. it is the best radar detector you can buy. . . it has won radar shootouts every year the past couple of years. let me say, if you buy it, you will never be dissappointed. it is the baddest detector you can buy. the best, hands down. it may cost a little more than others, but you will NEVER regret it. i would bet you that. try it, you'll see. i am saving up for my own. we bought my dad one, i want to steal it, but he watches it like a hawk, so i will have to buy my own. it is the only detector i will ever buy. . . .EVER. it has proven itself to us, and we have owned many other detectors. it is the only detector we will ever buy untill something proves itself better, which wont happen for a while. . . .

So you're saying the V1s are junk, right?

two words.

VALENTINE ONE

Originally posted by ChattavegasSE:
Did ya fiddle with the dial on the side? Also, IIRC, you push and hold city/highway to switch it, right? Anyway, speaking of/bashing Cobras, I've got two tickets in the past year with no warning at all. I need to take it back to the evil Best Buy and get a new one.

dont blame bestbuy guys, you are the ones that failed to do your hw before you bought it. Only go with the big black box (Valentine One) or get the escort passport 8500. Dont get any of that wireless crap either...Think about your remote and batteries, once you use it to much the batteries die right? well you dont want your batteries to be dead when you need it to tell you if the cop is shooting radar!

Originally posted by TourDeForce:
I use the little round indicator thingy in the dash to help me regulate my speed & avoid getting tickets.

That combined with the buttons on the stearing wheel have saved me from many a speeding ticket!

www.radartest.com, looks like the Passport 8500 out scores the V1. My dad has a V1, an excellent radar detector no doubt, but it does have it downsides. For one, IT'S HUGE! Second, the KA band and Laser functions are good, but not as good as the 8500 and that's where the future of radar is. Hopefully in the next couple of months I'll have the money for one, but for now, OLD A$$ Escort will just have to do. Just my $.02

Originally posted by SmellySVT:
www.radartest.com, looks like the Passport 8500 out scores the V1. My dad has a V1, an excellent radar detector no doubt, but it does have it downsides. For one, IT'S HUGE! Second, the KA band and Laser functions are good, but not as good as the 8500 and that's where the future of radar is. Hopefully in the next couple of months I'll have the money for one, but for now, OLD A$$ Escort will just have to do. Just my $.02

radartest.com is a scam. Try this one:

http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=4&article_id=1993

From my readings, it looks like radartest.com is the only place un-biased by any factors. They don't receive free andything from any company (Car and Driver really like V1, they also receive free things from the good people at Valentine) I found some really good information on that site and it seems like they know what they are doing.
My $.02

Originally posted by SmellySVT:
From my readings, it looks like radartest.com is the only place un-biased by any factors. They don't receive free andything from any company (Car and Driver really like V1, they also receive free things from the good people at Valentine) I found some really good information on that site and it seems like they know what they are doing.
My $.02

That is absolutly false. C&D does not recieve ANYTHING free, all detectors used in their tests are purchased by them. In regards to Craig Peterson's site, read through this.

Originally posted by SmellySVT:
(Car and Driver really like V1, they also receive free things from the good people at Valentine)

Where'd you get this from? Their first ever test, they had a detector company send them a cheapo detector that had the guts replaced by a much better one so their brand would score better. After that, they buy each detector direct from the retail store and test it.

Fact is- V1 has the longest range of any detector

V1 is the ONLY one with the directional locator

V1 is the ONLY detector with TRUE 360 degree protection as its the ONLY detector that actually has a receiver on the front side of it to detect from the rear.

You just can't beat Mikey! (That's what I named mine)

also the newer versions of the valintine 1 are smaller. same width and length but they are thinner. my friend has an old one, we have a new one. its maybe a 1/4 inch thinner but dont quote me on that one, just a guess. . .

I was actually surprised how small the V1 was when I received mine, it always looked much bigger in the magazine ads. It's definitely an awesome radar detector, and has paid for itself several times over in the year I've owned it.

My main concern now is laser, which seems to be getting very popular in this area (Seattle). The V1 does a decent job picking it up, but it's never enough warning. Lucky the state patrol is pretty lazy and almost always sticks to their usual speed trap spots.

-james