[Official] What's the Best Radar Detector?

Spooler

Cruise control and it is free. Just set it 5mph over and no worries. IF you act silly long enough, you will get caught. It is not like it was back in the 80's and 90's. Cops are everywhere. Back in the day I could do just about whatever I wanted on the back roads. Not anymore. Small towns are terrible and need the money. I refuse to give it to them. Learned my lesson a long time ago. I had a stack of tickets...LOL

blak max

daylight + open highway + clear view = high speed run

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Blu Z

I generally don't drive too much over PSL so I don't have to worry too much about cops, but since the Z looks fast sitting still, I've got an Escort Redline just in case/for those times I need to get from A to B a little quicker. Earlier this week I got my best "save" (was only doing about 5 over, on a rural parkway, behind another car). 1.3 miles away, over a hill, sat two state troopers, one with his rear antenna on; Ka 34.4. I crested the hill at a perfectly legal 55

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Bleek

5 year old topic bump, nice.



I have the Escort Passport Max and I love it.

XwChriswX

I was debating on getting the Max for my subie now. I'm done with the fully installed route because if the car goes, the detector goes

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frost

>People make new threads instead of old ones, people gripe

>People bump old threads instead of creating new ones, people gripe.

#can'twin

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Bleek

Sorta like arguing with your wife

Zipper 104

Old thread and time has marched on since the original post; new detectors, new options and opinions.
I always figured the V1 was the only one to get.
You just can't beat the V1 with its 'bogey counter', the arrows are secondary but helpful, but the V1 falses a ton apparently. They have their own way of getting 'around' that now and still say the V1s bogey counter is unmatched.
OTOH, I want to remain open minded so I'm also looking at the Escort Max and the Escort Redline. Using either of these two let me mount it real cleanly under the RV mirror wired into the Homelink power connector. Done.
To mount and power the V1 and it's remote display (and Savvy, their false go around) is a pain by comparison. Goodbye simple connection to the mirror.

Anyone with Escort Redlines or Escort Max with prior V1 ownership (or vice versa) that can comment definatively on the pros and cons of them?

I would not be using the GPS abilities of either of the Escorts, at least not in the forseeable future, but a simple, clean install is really appealing as long as they are effective out in the real world.

Thanks

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edconline

Rdforum.org. Everything you could possibly imagine x 1000 on radar and laser.
If you are looking for only windshield mounted detectors and want absolute maximum range, there is no substitute for the Redline. I haven't looked back since I got mine. I am thinking about grabbing a V1 at some point though to run as well with a remote display.

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Zipper 104

Thanks for the link. That's a pretty good site.
The bias level there seems a bit lower than some of the sites I had found. A few of them were a bit biased against the Valentine IMO.
I don't want to arbitrarily eliminate any of the other detectors out there and just jump on a V1 because of its past accolades.

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P's_Z

I have a whistler from almost 10yrs ago. Works just as good as the first day i installed it. I know its not a fancy pansy V1 or escort, but....

Number of speeding tickets since i bought it in 2005: 0

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LAVA

I just picked up a Passport 8500 X50 for $60, gotta love Craigslist. Can't wait to mount it in my new car

LAVA

I almost pulled the trigger on a V1, found one with the remote for $200 on CL

(sorry for the double post)

Zipper 104

So from what research I've done there is an app called YaV1 that when paired with the V1 is supposed to make a great combo.
YaV1 runs on an Android phone (only Android) and uses BT to communicate with the V1.
The phone doesn't even need to be activated with a carrier or have a data package. Updates can be done over WiFi wherever. The phone needs BT, WiFi and run a GPS app, and the faster the phone and newer the Android app the better, but it doesn't need to be all that fancy. Guys are using long obsolete phones to run YaV1, or unactivated, cheap pay-as-you-go phones paired with V1s through the V1 BT dongle.
I'm still doing the research. I was at a BB today and downloaded YaV1 to a demo phone so I could see what it looked like. I only saw the YaV1 demo since it couldn't pair with a V1, obviously.

Anyone here running YaV1??

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edconline

Ya, that combo seems to be extremely popular on RDForum. For good reason, you have amazing GPS lockouts, and crazy speed/range with the custom sweeps so it rivals the Redline for range. Plus you get the arrows. If you have an android to use, it's almost a no brainer UNLESS you drive somewhere that you need the detector to be invisible. Then V1 is no longer an option.

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