ericthepilot

Here is my question;

I have '07 997.1 Targa 4S, three months old. So far no tickets. Just bought an Escort 9500ix. Want to keep the speed up without the tickets.

Bought the unit at Champion Porsche Pompano today. The service guy wants to charge me USD 270,- to hard wire the Escort Radar Detector. I was like, no thanks, I can find a better answer.

I would like to mount it next to the mirror and run the wire along the driver side post down into the electrical box, where that may be. I have the hard wire kit.

Anyone on guidance what to look for in the foothold to hardwire this unit ?

Thank you

Eric

stevepow

Here are the instructions I followed - worked like a champ.

http://www.teamspeed.com/forums/997-...smartcord.html

ericthepilot

30 minutes to install
I love this bulletin board and it's members.
Thank You very much !!!
more beer money saved

alexb76

u mean u just did the install in 30mins?

ericthepilot

Yes

ericthepilot

Just drove out and back to Naples, and the Escort paid it self a few times over. Who says these things are too expensive has no clue how much joy you can get out of your car on the highway with one of these Escorts mounted to the windshield

OldGuy

These are the steps I followed:
1. Sell Escort
2. Buy V1
3. Have Valentine installed.
4. Have directional situational awareness.

Gleek48

For folks who used both the Escort 9500ix and the V1, what's your real world take on both detectors (pros/cons)?

stevepow

I agree - money well spent. Love the GPS and auto-mark feature.

alexb76

Escort is basically the better detector in ALL cases, but showing direction of the radar, which to me is quite useless, as I just slow down regardless where the radar is coming from!

ericthepilot

If you need to know where they are coming from, you are driving to slow. Go buy a Prius !

If you really want to know if there is a "bear in the air", buy the Targa. The glass panel gives you great 360' degree vision of what is happening above you. I love it.
The Escort auto learn feature is amazing. The Valentine just chirps everyday and it is you who is learning to ignore the false alert (I know, my buddy has a V1 on his 997 and it sucks). If I want to drive in a birdcase, I'll go to the zoo.

My escort automatically remembers the area signals around the house. Priceless

helispud

I've had both, sold the Valentine on eBay. The Escort seldom has a false, and the GPS features are very,very nice.

stevepow

Either seems to have the hard-core fans - well, Escort fans don't seem so hard-core.

When I was researching, the V1 and 9500 seemed to bubble to the top - I can't really remember why I finally chose the Escort - packaging maybe and probably the "techiness" of the GPS memory and promise of less falsing as well as camera database capabilities. It is the 1st and only detector I have owned. The only thing that bugs me about it is warning me about red-light cameras when I am on the free-way...I get why it does it - I reckon nothing is perfect - yet, maybe they are working on it.

I think they cater to different personalities - I don't care about all the "situational awareness" hype. In fact, I think banging on that tag line turned me off to the V1 a bit. The advertising style kinda bugged me for some reason. But I could see the appeal to some.

Best bet when shopping is read up, look at specs and features, then decide which is more like what you imagine using and enjoying. I don't think you find a "clear" winner - just a matter of preference.

ericthepilot

The NON annoy factor of the Escort is the clear seller. You are not the filter anymore is the best Feature of the unit. After 4 days the unit "knows" already so much of my routes, and hence the silence is great. My buddies V1 just can not compare with it's everyday noise.
Escort really got a winner here. We will see how long it takes for the competition to "imitate" the unit.

JJCruz

I have a V1 and love it. Live in KFLL area and only warnings i get are real floridas finests... no tickets thus far...