Radar Detectors in WA.

[Driver]

im goin for a rx65.

[JH32]

I have one installed in the center console -  the detectors are mounted on the front & rear bar (for alerting to cops coming up behind me) - it picks up lasers and radors. You wouldnt know it was there if you didnt know where to look. It has always gone off with plenty of warning and is set to not go off at doors etc.

what model number is this one ?

i'd be looking for something similar to that

[philta]

got a guy saying he can seel me a whistler 1760 "refurb" for 150,

any1 know what refurb means???

[burnfest]

updated firmware? i guess.

[Driver]

i assume it means refurbished.

Meaning its been used, but its been cleaned up and checked..

but u better make sure

[PHATR32]

refurbished! :upurs:

[Driver]

haha yeaa :bananaman

[noise]

']im decidin whether to purchase the bel rx65 or rocky mountain. I know the rocky mountain is developed usin military technology. Rocky mountain is also very competivitly priced, and according to their website, they are faster then the beltronics. Only thing stoppin me is the fact that beltronics has such a good reputation. Ive seen one bloke sellling the rx65 for 500. If we manage to get a couple of blokes together we could possibly get it between 450-480 dollars a piece. Anyone interested??? I'll find out today wether he'll budge on the price.

Cheers.

Paul

make sure you can turn k and x band off, otherwise the radar detector, no matter what brand will be useless. important

[ix9]

2. It is only used on the car mounted radars (and unless you do a lot of country driving these are few and far between)

On the contrary - There are bulk coppers on the freeways and suburban streets with K-band vehicle mounted radars. And my last big fine was at night driving on a city street and got done with a vehicle mounted radar

[noise]

K-Band is used by most vehicle-mounted-radar cop cars to detect your speed. Why would you turn it off?

 

Pretty stupid.

ok then leave k band on.

It will go off every 30 seconds... how effective will that be?

It doesn’t take a genius to realise that if your radar detector is going off so often it will be highly annoying and also it will make you much less likely to react when there is actually a multinova or camera.

I will repeat the best and most effective setup for a radar detector for city driving is to use it primarily as a multinova detector and to leave k and x band off.

If your radar detector doesnt let you turn off k and x then get a new one.

This is not an opinion, it’s a fact.

[sileighty]

radar detector.. pfft. i want a radar jammer...

[Starionturbo]

I used a Bell 900 for quite a while and found it to be worthwile.

Every day when I went to work from Mandurah to Bibra lake - it was like a mine field of speed cameras/police.

It used to warn me in adequate time and I found it usefull. If your an idiot driver who thinks that they can speed all the time and be saved, forget about it.

The radar actually made me more aware of speeding and when it beeped it reminded me to slow down. Was very impressed. Im just annoyed that they are illegal in melbounre. If we had radar detectors here, the vic goverment wouldnt make any revenue.

[jazza08]

Had one, got my window broken into and stolen!

My stupid ass fault for not taking it down...

Had it for a few months n never saw a single detector, got stolen and went past one within a week.. lol just how things work ay

I didnt find K band was bad at all, but if u leave X band on dun go past ANY shops beep beep beep hehehe

[philta]

in one of my mod's can turn x band off, i herd police dont use x band anymore, but for sum reason im speeding less with it :S, havent found a speed cam to try mine out but worth having one and all.

actually i have but it beeped when i after i drove past, got o learn the best place to mount this thing, pointed around and it picked it up like 300-500m away. soo im not too confident with these things.