Radar Detectors

[NO_RSPECT]

hey people

http://www.nomorefines.com.au/index.html

Thats the site

someone at work posted a link.

anyone bought one of these..

anyone got something decent not by this mob?

And if possible... if you can manage....try not to post the usual...if you stay in the speed limit...you wont need one... blah blah blah

[bogcock]

whats the point of a radar detector. if your speeding, adn you get picked up by radar, the coppers allready know ur speeding, so whats the radar detector guna do for you???

it detects the radar emissions once they hit the car. TOO LATE!!!!

[DriftSquad]

well i watched the video im convinced!

[fr0st]

They do work... but mainly on speed cameras

WA cops don't use handheld RADAR anymore. The lidar they use will get your speed almost instantly if you don't have a jammer (fairly sure there illegal...)

[PSI_GTSII]

WA cops don't use handheld RADAR anymore

Hmmm..yes they do

Got done by one a few months back

Country cops still also use a lot of gutter mount radars, which are the easiest of the lot to detect

Edited June 20, 2006 by PSI_GTSII

[Black_CSR]

So is it really worth gettin a Radar Detector?

[luke20t]

i was using a rx65 pro for about a year before it broke

i found the false alarms were anoying and also when it picked up ka band (multanova) from the other side of the road

i also found that they only really helped if doing up to 10km/h over the speed limit.

going any faster it usually picks it up too late.

btw i know the people that run this small business

luke

[fr0st]

Hmmm..yes they do

Got done by one a few months back

Country cops still also use a lot of gutter mount radars, which are the easiest of the lot to detect

really? my bad

I've never seen one being used once (I've only been driving two years though...). I can see how country cops might still have them but everytime I've seen a handheld in Perth its been a lidar.

Considering I got flashed yesterday doing the speed limit, I think there worth it. I was right next to another car so if they managed to get my plate they would have definately got my fellow law abiding motorists plate aswell in the same shot.

Alot of court cases in other parts of the world (including aus) have ruled in favor of the motorist when it comes to handheld radar. They've been proven clock trees at 70km/h in some cases...

The beam width of radar can't be focused anywhere near as much as lidar so at a distance its very unreliable. Multinovas are short range so there usually accurate... unless you next to another car

Whether you can justify the money is up to you.... but I'd definately look at eBay before Perth dealers

[PSI_GTSII]

So is it really worth gettin a Radar Detector?

No.....

The only thing that would sway me into buying a Radar detector (Again!) would be if I did a lot of country driving, as mentioned before the Country cops still use the old gutter mount style radar, and as most of them are left on most of the time they are very easy to detect.

Around town Multinovas are your main worry, and I cannot put up with all the 'falsing' that radar detectors give you around town.

From my experience (2 x Unidens & 1 x Bel) they do not detect multinovas until the multinova is triggered....if you are the car triggering the multinova basically you are screwed, hopefully it is a car up the road triggering it so as it gives you a chance to slow down.....but then as the detector has probably beeped at every Maccas and BP servo you've driven past you'll probably ignore the warning anyway...

[tigeryas]

WA cops don't use handheld RADAR anymore.

saw a cop on mounts bay road near the narrows bridge on my way to uni a few days ago too. They wait near the bend before u go under the narrows, ie coming from the bell tower -> swan brewery. They usually sit there with the gun...

few other notables but thats the only one i can think of for now. my car struggles to boost now anyway so its not like i can speed very fast anyway

and my car's generally slow even when it IS healthy

[millicent]

Your right about the lidar, radar detectors arent effective against them due to the fact they are only on when the officer pulls the trigger.

But your wrong about the multanova. Its not "triggered" when a car goes past it, its constantly left on and constantly emmiting a signal. It emits its signal in all directions, but its only the signal directly infront of the gun that gets reflected back to get your speed. Thats why detectors give you prior warning because it picks up the signal that has bounced and reflected down the road. Check out howstuffworks if you want to know the specifics, they have a good article on rds.

But yeah I got a X50 from this mob a little while back, and im pretty happy with it. The range it gives does vary, but I have seen it give 20+ seconds warning at its best. I can't drive without it now. I had an RX65 before till someone broke in and stole it. NEVER leave your suction cups on the windscreen!! I learnt the hard way=( But yeah it is definately noticably better than the RX65. The RX65 probly could give the same range at its best, but I found it was just less reliable. The Rx65 on the odd occasion would only alert me as Id basically pass the camera, but the X50 has never given me less than about 7 seconds at its worst. Generally its about 10-15 seconds. But even 7 seconds is enough to save you if you aren't being ridiculous. Plus they say the multis range is only 40m and 7 seconds at 70kmh is 135m.

As for false alerts, they do occour on the X and K band, but you just turn the X band off cause its not used here... but there are no false alerts on the Ka band. So if they are pissing you off then you can just turn off K and X band for city driving and leave Ka on just for multanovas. I personally just put up with a few false alerts on the K band for the chance to be saved from a cop car.. plus I just like to be reminded that its still working=)

Edited June 21, 2006 by millicent

[PHATR32]

hey, 1 question about the lidar.

is it possible for the signal from the lidar to bounce off something e.g the car infront of you, so the detector can warn you, before the cop points it at your car?

steve

[millicent]

yeah I've read about people who thats happened to...but you need to be pretty lucky.

[atessa]

been looking into this for a while now - lidar is pretty much impossible to avoid - because they have such a narrow beam that once your fetector picks it up (if it does at all) they've got you. lidar are generally aimed at your grille area - as they supposedly need a fairly flat surface to get a good read. dash mounted detectors - especially high mount - usualy miss them. the 'undetectable' radar detectors that they're flogging now are still dash mount - when i see a hard wired unit that has the pickup in the grille area i might reconsider but until then - i'll just keep my eyes open.