Petza914

The CWP thing is a good angle. I am too, but only let them know if I'm carrying. Gonna try your technique next time and let you know how it works out. Luckily for me, one of my best friends is a County Sheriff and he's made my last 4 or 5 go away for me by calling the officer, even if from a different department, but he's retiring at the end of this year, so I'm going to need a new angle.

I too always pull over immediately if I know I'm the one he's pulling out for. When I used to ride sportbikes I actually had one thank me for stopping and said if I had decided to run, he would have just given up. With about 40 or 45 (I lost count a few years ago) traffic stops throughout my lifetime, I have some entertaining stories.. Before State DMVs were linked, when I was in college, I actually had 3 active licenses at one time - one from the state my parents had just moved from, one from the state they moved to, and one from the state where I was in school. Whenever I got stopped, I'd produce a license from out of state and none of the points would transfer - those were the good old days (late 80s / early 90s).

doclouie

I use to run from the cops back in my stupid teenage years, but I was smart. I know this was very illegal, but I had switches installed into my first car, which was a Porsche, that turned off all rear lights and brake lights from behind so at night I was a ghost. You can’t pull over what you can’t see.

Petza914

Me too. Back then I ducked into more than one used car lot once I had enough of an out of the line of sight lead on him. God, I hope my kids are smarter than I was.

sandwedge

No doubt. I've practiced enough times where I can get mine off the mount in seconds and tuck the cable away. The mount is pretty well integrated with the rear view mirror and is hard to see by itself without the detector but If the LEO is sharp, he or she may still spot it and draw their own conclusion. Maybe wishful thinking but I suspect most look for the more common suction cup windshield mount and the cigarette lighter connection.

Edgy01

As an authority on radar, I can tell you that the larger target, the SUV, will be seen by the police over a 997 any day. It's all about your radar cross-section. There is absolutely no comparison of a 997 to an SUV or a truck. Police are supposed to be TRAINED to know that so that they don't accidentally pull over the wrong guy. I got pulled over one night at 2 am in the far right lane doing an indicated 65 (which is 63) as I watched some white Japanese sedan in the far left high speed lane go whizzing by. He was probably doing 75. The guy stopped me. I was so adamant and pissed at the CHP that he just left me go. It may have been more of a "is the guy drinking?" type of stop, because of the hour. Having a Valentine I knew that he was radar-querying the cars at that area.

You have to be so careful to drive in such a way that you are not picked out of the clutter of cars as the law breaker. It's very hard because you need to be focused upon merely driving, but many Porsche drivers are targeted merely because of the make of car it is. You're aware of the observation that a Porsche "looks fast" even when parked? If you are a very conservative driver the best solution is one of those car-cams that are sold online that will record your speed and have a 360 camera capability. It you pull one of those out before an officer he will generally back down because he then knows that you have data that supports your argument. Sadly, I have found over the years that cops do lie about speed and other things before a judge so having something that is on a constant loop that records the last hour of driving until you need it is wise insurance.

With a radar detector in your car, place it as high as you can in the car to improve your detection range--it's all about line of sight. (Some built ins are located near the front grill to stay low profile, but that will sacrifice significant early range notification by enough to make a difference). If in a crowd of cars that are moving briskly along, try and let someone else be noticeably faster! I usually hug the slow lane as much as possible and only go into left lanes to pass, helping the perception that I'm going slower.

JABowders

Revenue Farming ... I was ticketed in my mother's PT Cruiser on the way to the post office and even the cop said he noticed the POS Honda passing me was going faster, but claimed he couldn't ticket the Honda because he was clocking me ... I said so instead of enforcing the law, you will ticket me because this car is nicer than the one speeding and more likely to pay the fine, he just smiled and said, yes.

EDIT:
I don't mind a fair pinch, when I speed it is normally at least double the posted limit ... but this was just BS.

Austin997.2

Equal justice under the law is a thing of the past.

ocgarza

Did a 3,500 mile road trip from S Texas to Indianapolis to Charleston. Uniden R3 saved me plenty of times even picking up a laser radar once. Never got pulled over once. It's car swappable and cannot be detected by radar detector detectors.

Iceter

doclouie

Petza914

Yeah, they're probably all yours

doclouie

Petza914

Touche! but actually not true. There are probably 100 or more Porsches in my surrounding area of Clemson & Seneca, maybe more. Quite a few 911s with most of them being 996s and 997s, with a few 991s, a bunch of Macans & Cayennes of all generations, lots of Boxsters & Caymans, and I occasionally see a 928, 944, or an older 911.

cringely

Fred Puhn (good friend and author of "How to Make Your Car Handle) told me that Corvette intentionally angled the radiators and (I think the firewall) to reduce radar cross-section (RCS). While car mag radar detector tests are very instructive, I'd really like them to do measure RCS's on a bunch of vehicles. It would be great to compare the RCS of various 911's, supercars and SUV's (Car & Driver, Road & Track, Motor Trend, are you listening?)

GoldenGorilla

That's a really interesting idea to measure the reflectivity at a specified distance, say 1/4 mile or 1/8 mile. I think that some authorities might not appreciate the effort, but it would be interesting and easy to replicate with a static car.

That said, like many others I'm seeing more and more laser used in my neck of the woods and more and more K family bands radar noise from automated traffic monitoring systems, lane departure, blindspot monitoring... Laser reflectivity is a different animal all together and I don't see how you could create a working comparison for that without scanning the car. An average wouldn't be useful. Perhaps net reflectivity or area with reflectivity above a certain value would be useful.

Going back to one of the original questions, I did do some research on the latest and greatest in radar and laser detectors and the Uniden R3 seems to consistently take the top marks.