Originally Posted by gsxr750

Don't get me wrong , back in the 80's and early 90's I had experience with the x band and KA and laser detectors. When you only had to worry about X band you stood a chance of slowing down after the warning. Even the old fuzzbuster brand worked great and even the $50-$60 cobra units.

But as soon as the KA and pulsed band units came out , every time you got a warning it was to late in such a short distance, then came lasers and forget about having time to slow down.

So in the mid 90's the police units became to good to beat and you just had to slow down or get the tickets.

Sure you will get those that argue that you can get a reflected signal bounced off another car at great distance. But how often does this really happen and it may only work in ideal conditions.

The facts are that with most of these detectors, they usually go off all the time from background microwave radiation and other lasers, so after a short time of all these signals you find yourself braking all the time or just turning the unit off.

If you really want try one of the units I would get a cheap $100-$150 units a play around with it and see how they really perform (with a return policy) and just get a good Garmin GPS unit with life time updates and redlight and speed camera ability.