Just bought the Passport Max 2 from Best Buy, they price matched Amazon, and I have 15 days to see if I like it. It's giving me a reason to go drive around

 

Radar detection is all about situation awareness. The instrument per se is just a tool to make the driver aware. In my experience the V1 is the best tool to accomplish that - the threat direction is key. The latest version (just released) deals with eliminating spurious signals, the more egregious being the lane change signals and active cruise control. In addition with the bluetooth option, control of the unit and additional displays are available.

 

Wonderful! I hope you find it worthy of the price. Remember that at first you'll get quite a few false alarms so don't get discouraged. It will subside after it sees them in the same place a few consecutive times (three I think). And don't hesitate to disable X band for sure, and I haven't seen K band from police radar in a long time so I don't keep it enabled around Austin. Ka and Laser are pretty much it around here.

If you get Escort Live downloaded, you can control the detector settings from the App a lot more easily than from the detector itself.

A final note, I have mine hardwired and the cable tucked along the headliner and down the side trim to the fuse box. There are several articles on the forum discussing this in a few variations, but I'll be glad to answer questions about it if the Max2 passes your 15 day test and you decide you'd like to go the hardwiring route. Since you are in Austin, if you need help with this I could give you a hand or show you how it is hooked up in my car.

 

StormRune, did you hard wire with the Escort kit? I bought the Escort hardwire kit, but I didn't feel I could have the mute button box mounted nicely enough, so I left it tucked away behind the panels in the foot well. The auto mute function works nicely for my taste anyway, but I'm keen to see what others may have done with the mute button box.

I bought an aftermarket hardwire kit for installing the Escort in my beater A4, included a tiny mute button which I mounted in one of the trim pieces after drilling a hole, but I'm not willing to do that in my 911.

 

I also have that tucked away (although mine includes the external Bluetooth unit for the first-gen Passport Max - but for this discussion it is the same). If you look in the photo in my post here in another recent discussion (https://rennlist.com/forums/997-foru...-mount.html#11, you can see that my phone is mounted just to the right of my steering wheel. Since I run Escort Live all of the time I'm driving, all I have to do is tap the screen to mute an alert. This is even easier than a button since the screen is much bigger. On the rare time I don't have my phone in the mount or have something else on the screen, I just reach up and press the mute button on the top of the detector (by feel, without looking, since it is too far on top to see).

Edit: And yes, I do have the Escort hardwire connected to the fusebox using a plugin fuse hookup from AutoZone. I'll see if I can find my previous posts on this.

 

Here is a link to my previous post on the way I did the hardwiring: https://rennlist.com/forums/997-foru...etector.html#9.
You'll find some other opinions in that and other threads as well.

 

My hardwire solution:

https://rennlist.com/forums/997-foru...l#post11675150

I'm gonna have to try the Escort Live app. I'm too cheap to pay for a subscription, and actually for the driving I do, I know where most of the usual speedtraps are already!

 

Thanks for all of the help!! I'll let you know if I get ambitious enough to hardwire, but will probably switch it around between my 997 and my SUV.

Where is the best place to place it on the window?

 

Saaboteur: A great reference for the same approach with lots more detail and pictures among all of the threads.

What a beauty of a car, a 4S with X51 at that! The wheels are a great match for the car too. Very nice!

 

On my post #21 above, if you follow that link taking you to post #9 in that thread, you can see that I keep mine as high as possible just to the left of the mirror. Easy to see/hear, not visible to most cars from behind, and doesn't block much view. It works well with the hardwired solution, but I'm not sure it is the best with the lighter plugin approach.

I also use the detector in my wife's car or my truck at times. I just unplug from the hardwired and leave it there, then use the standard lighter plug in the other cars. Then there is no dangling cord or detector in sight that may irk any police cars following behind.

 

Another caveat to these detectors is the laser sensing devices that cars like the Volvo are coming equipped with. Marine Blue's Volvo will set off my V1 laser multiple times if he's following me. I've notice I'm getting falsed on laser more frequently from the new Tahoe and Escalade if I remember right.

 

Thanks for the comments on the car. I jumped on it in September when it became available. I wasn't a huge fan of the wheels - there are other OE designs that I like better - but I'll live with them for now. Got my eye on a set of Finspeeds, but those will have to wait.

Austin997.2, re: hard wiring - I have hardwired the radar detector into all of my cars, and just unplug and replug in whenever I move around the cars. I do intend to get a Blendmount for the 911, and then leave the Passport's suction cup mount in my daily driver for ease of swapping back and forth. Hardwiring isn't that difficult, have a read through all of the threads, there are lots of good solutions out there, and it cleans up the install so much.

 

Re: false laser warnings - I seem to get some of these even with bright sunlight - but perhaps it's other cars' lights too.

 

I'll definitely keep you posted. There's another thread floating around specifically about the V1 False Alarms and potential solutions. I believe there's a procedure to shut off the Laser detection which will eliminate my other issue with the Volvo.

 

I've got a 9500ix. It has worked flawlessly in phx/scottsdale and is pretty quiet overall. I swap it between cars and it's saved me probably 6-7 times