Imthewatchguy

andrewaw

champignon

The Uniden R1 and R3 get high marks.

I bought a Uniden R1 and have used it the last month or so in a couple of cars for 2 round trip road trips of about 350 miles each. I got a lot of false alarms from other cars that have various functions such as lane keeping and automated cruise control, but did not pick up on a single actual radar or laser wielding cop. In fairness to the unit, I also did not see any cops patrolling where I was driving.

The R1 (identical to the R3 except for lacking GPS functionality) is pretty easy to use. Exactly how useful it will prove to be in future use, I can't say.

abiazis

champignon

I think it depends on how much money you are willing to spend, and how much speeding you intend to do. There are companies who will install hard-mounted, completely hidden, detectors, paired with jammers. You can even get products that will make your license plate unintelligible to speed and red light cameras. Total protection like that is going to cost you some serious change, several thousand, with the jammers and license plate thingies.

Pays yer money and takes yer chances. Not in my personal budget.

rasetsu

There are several easy ways to hard wire radar detectors so there are no wires dangling into cigarette lighter outlets. I've tapped into map lights, tapped into accessory power line, Add-a-Fuse taps, and OBD2 port power plugs. Most good detectors comes with the proper length of cable to tuck up the windshield header, down the a-pillar between the door gasket and out into the fuse panel. Having a $5 set of plastic trim removal tools makes tucking the cord into the gaps a breeze and there's no need to remove anything other than the fuse panel cover. Depending on model and year, someone has probably already done an Add-a-Fuse tap and thus performed the guesswork of finding the proper fuse already. I have a Valentine 1 that uses the Savvy OBD2 port power supply with an added in-line brown out booster for the car's auto stop start function. Took me about 30 minutes to run the wire down and neatly secure it. The majority of time was spent properly positioning the detector on my windscreen to where I liked it.

David_911

Check out the Vortex Radar website. They have tons of reviews, educational articles, and information on how radars, lasers, and jammers actually work in the field.

https://www.vortexradar.com/