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XwChriswX

A lot of times, cops will leave their radars or cars on, constantly emitting just to scare those that Do have detectors because they go off and slow down... So it's a passive way to slow down speeders.

Mine has gone off a few times from parked cars with no one in them. Doesn't need to be anything super schnazzy or new fangled radar system... just a cop who wants to mess with us commonfolk.


Did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express??

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Wonka2581

^^ yes why yes I did lmao, also the automatic doors at let's just say a grocery store will or can set off the detectors BC it uses a form or band of radar

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madwi

I think those are K band aren't they? I've mostly picked up actual police officers with KA band. Are the different bands of radar just versions of older tech and new tech or can all of them be used in current "guns"?

XwChriswX

Mine do as well, it will pick up X and K band's for those. Also newer cars with their "collision avoidance radars" will make it go off as well. Still trying to peg down which brands use which bands, but as far as I can remember right now, Domestics use K band while Euro Imports use X band I think...

My way of mitigating this is by using the GPS to block out signals I know are false, and if there are new ones, after about 10 seconds of driving, if the signal isn't getting stronger, then it's a false reading. No biggie, that's why it has a nice big mute button.

Yes, most of them are K band. Ka is specific to police, so anytime you get a Ka, it is a cop.

Originally, it was X band, then they started using K band, and now Ka band for LEO. Typically, the smaller the agency, the less money they have, so the less high end detectors they will have. Your big city cops will have the newer stuff, Laser/POP/Instant On/etc, but most Rural/county agencies will just use Ka/K radar.

So once AGAIN, it is on you the driver to know who/what you're up against. The detector is a tool, but it's not a magic wand.

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madwi

Thanks! I appreciate the information. It makes sense with from the data that I was "collecting" (that's a real loose term ha-ha).

XwChriswX

According to Gsxr though we can't use your review as you are giving it a positive one.

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madwi

Speaking of the Collision Avoidance Systems I seem to remember Audi caused a lot of people to freak out and think they were getting hit when it was the person chugging along with cruise control/collision voidance system active while driving lol

XwChriswX

Happens all the time...

I'll be driving along, coming up on some minivan in the right lane, and my detector will go off with one of the lesser bands (K/X). It will be a light signal, maybe 1 bar, up until I get next to the car, then it goes to 2. After I pass them it goes away, so I just mute it while I'm passing them.

The 2 good things about the 9500ci I have, (and I believe the 9500ix has the same features), is that it has 3 modes, AUTO, AUTO NO X, HIGHWAY. The AUTO NO X mode turns off the X band part of detection so you won't get these "false" signals.

The other good thing is that even if one of these is going off, and it detects a Ka band, it will show the more police oriented Ka band. Not the "first detected, first shown" idea of some detectors I've seen.

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madwi

This thread has made me start getting back into this stuff lol. I think I need to send in my old STI unit to be "brought up to date". When I had my Laser Interceptor's installed on my 350, I remember seeing an LEO in Wisconsin shaking his laser gun...It was so hard not to laugh when I switched it off and passed him and let him seeing I was doing the speed limit.
I was hit so many times traveling from WI to MI. I would always slow down to the limit or 5 over and then switch it off and let em see I was doing the limit +5 lol.
* I never used the system while driving through Illinois where these things are frowned upon and illegal

XwChriswX

I have my "Shifters" to perma off for this reason... 1 error, they may shake their head and try again, multiple errors and they know something isn't right, and will pull you over anyways. And I don't feel like keeping a note card in the car with where it is/is not legal to have them. So I just keep them off...

Still know whenever I'm being lased though.


Of course the other down side is the damn false laser detection you sometimes get when the Sun is at just the right inclination and angle to the sensor. Or some headlights nowadays when it's raining will refract just enough light to set them off... So annoying hahaha

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madwi

Oh man, I remember the sun readings and thinking is there a freaking ninja out here shooting me haha
It was always early morning or early evening when it happened. The sun hit the "parking Sensors" just right lol

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madwi

You know in an earlier post I said I was hit with laser and I never saw the guy...I looked EVERYWHERE and never saw him, I can spot the "gumball" machine on our state troopers vehicles but this guy was great lol he wasn't on an on ramp, hiding behind a pillar under an overpass, bushes in the median, didn't show up on WAZE haha. If I ever meet that guy I'd buy him a beer lol.

XwChriswX

If it was a sunny day, I could give you an idea... Blows my mind too. In the middle of nowhere on the highway, no cop hiding spots available, my rear laser would go off. Freakish...

Then one night I was driving home and this ahole was following me with his highbeams on, and it was raining (tooootally safe right??) and it kept triggering my rear sensor. I was starting to think the sensor had gone bad, but as soon as the douche left, it stopped.

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madwi

Hmmm for the sake of science I will have to buy another Laser Interceptor system to see what sets it off