So a few members had asked me for these, so here they are. Pics are of my new stereo and radar detector hard wired and mounted behind the mirror... enjoy!

 

I say repaint the center console it all matches. But stilll---

IBTL I think.

 

And make room for a S-AFC ..

 

You know, I'd always thought it would be awesome to put the radar detector in the grill, where it couldn't be seen at all. You wouldn't really get anything from behind that way, but I think it'd be a fair tradeoff. You'd really only be able to do it with a radar detector with a detachable display unit like the Valentines though.

 

man i need to get a radar detector also. but that is a clean set up.

 

Dude give that Cobra pos back, and invest in a passport

 

Dude, I didnt have a couple hundred to blow on a radar detector. This one had gotten great reviews and cost me like $100.

 

Yea, pick up a passport. By far the best, picked up radar faster than my friends val a few times.

 

Looks pretty nice. Not a big fan ouf that mounting kit however.

 

which version of the passport are you guys talking about? i am in the market for a radar detector myself.

 

well the newest one out is the x50. i got mine on ebay for $200.

 

I need one too....and I did hear good reviews about the passport....

 

Forget about the Passport and get a BEL, they are the best. They used to be carried by Circuit City under that name, but are now sold under the name beltronics (http://www.beltronics.com/). Best money I ever spent

 

So wrong.....

 

I had BEL 980. Now i have the Passport 8500.
The BEL was good, sensitive but falsed more than the Passport.

Escort Passport 8500 is the right choice. It is worth the money and it pays for itself quickly if you are a spirited driver. Get it for ~$200. Doesn't have to be the x50.

 

someoen on here has a valentine and has the display unit that is optional mounted where his clock used to be. Talk about ballerific.

 

Well, now that this has turned into a radar detector thread... V-1. Like they say, "Once you live with the Arrows..."

 

I paid over $300 for my passport after tax from best buy and I never regretted it for a second. I have been saved by it som any times from cops hiding behind bushes and trees and signs, its amazing. Its nice to see the signal to because it almost tells you how hard to slow down. I can think of three different times where it has gone off and I slowed down and had someone go past me and get pulled over. Its rated on god knows how many sites and articles thats its the best on the market.

 

you guys convinced me enough. i am going to go amd buy one now. how hard is it to install one?

 

Install? All you do it mount it with suction cups and plug it in to the cig lighter, thats it.

 

damn i got no cig lighter in my car.

 

So? There are 4-billion other 12V sources you can tap for this.

 

LOL, rofll ahahaa sorry but muahahah, im sorry but ahahahaha okay lol omg are you serious that bell pos, dude get a passport made by escort. You know Escort is only the company that makes the cops RADARS so man its beautifull, in three years i have no tickets, before that i had lots even with that cobra thingy,
PASSPORT 8500 X50 and get the 50 dollar warranty from best buy my first one i dropped and the power plug got messed up it was just a 8500, but when i went in the new X50's where in and i got one for free cause of the warranty, cause the 8500 are old models so hey to the warranty.

 

I got a Passport 5000, its a older model, but it works super. I had 2 Valentine 1s that didn't work good, basically the cop was using radar right infront of me- my friends car's Bel was going nuts and my valentine 1 was just chilln killn, the 2nd one was the same way. I returned the Valentine and kept on using my Passport 5000 till now. In the mean time I tried some Cobra radar detector with a compass n **** like that and it always went off in areas where my passport was silent, and it just didn't do much for me in terms of confidence. One time I was driving home and the detector went nuts ! All the lights where blinking and then dimming back n forth- I threw the fuqer out the window and pulled out my Passport 5000 that is now like 8 years old or so. I love Passport Escort radar detectors, saved my azz plenty of times from jail or tickets.

 

BTW I forgot to say, that Metra kit looks like azz compared to my factory GXE kit, and thumbs down on the Kenwood radio :P Sorry just not a fan of Kenwood at all, even thou I had eXceleons n the past nothing compares to Eclipse or Alpine.

 

I just bought a Passport X50 off of ebay. It was the blue LED one for $260 shipped. Just waiting for it to get here.

 

same here, got my 2nd ticket yest
73 in a 55, pulled over by unmarked z28, cop reduced to 64/55

 

Metra dash kit is fugly...get the GXE kit, much cleaner look. Nice setup on the detector I suppose.

now: instead of the FoCKING LAME "56k warning" how about you just post photos that fit on the damn screen. It's not that hard x 10 billion

 

Irish i can never get my pics to resize properly for some reason. Help or suggestions would certainly be welcomed...

 

lol you can resize pics using paint for god sakes.

 

just go into paint, photoshop, imageready, or whatever and open the photo...then click on "resize image" or "image size" in the menu, and change the width to about 600-650 pixels....

 

or use cardomain to host the pics and they will resize themselves


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