any try the newer version escort 8500 x50 black? I seen it on there site, suppose to be better range and performance

 

I bought a Cobra ESD 7400 on black friday almost a year ago. Best 30 bucks I've ever spent. Decent amount of false alarms but when you click city mode it defeats them. Also catches in dash radar on moving police extremely well like with 1/2 mile range. Great buy. I have an 00' Maxima SE. Used the windshield mounting bracket, mounted it in the upper driver side corner of the windshield, ran the wire down the pillar and wrapped it around a fused only powered during ignition. Works great! Hope that helped!

 

Haven't seen this in person, but I've heard stories of a gps/nav/radar... Picture a garmin or Tom Tom with the ability to coordinate cops as a red dot of their location on ur map screen..

Ex: u know they're on maple street to the right about .7 miles away moving east

Ex;

 

They will also know when you jam on the brakes the instant the detector goes off.

 

That's why you never lead the pack and stay behind one or two cars. By the time you get a warning from the detector, you slow down. The car or cars in front of you get pulled over. I've used this method many times over the years, and it hasn't failed me yet.

 

Not when a lidar gun is pointing at you. When you get the notice, you're being clocked.

 

just remove your brake lights

 

I've always been surprised that someone hasn't come up with a dual-action momentary contact switch spliced into the brake light switch wires. Flick it one way and it would flash the brake lights without using the brakes (to politely inform a tailgater of his distance) or flick it the other way and it would prevent the brake lights from coming on in the event of a radar dectector beep.

This is likley unsafe on many different levels, just surprised I've never heard of anyone doing this.

 

Unless you're in a sports car, the nose of the car also dives.

 

^ If you just barely put your foot on the brake pedal, enough to activate the switch, it serves the same purpose. Your taillights will come on, but you're not actually braking.

As far as a delay switch for cops not to notice, if they have the radar on you, they will see the sudden decrease in speed on the clock so brake lights or no brake lights, you will have their attention.

 

Werd!

 

9500 with laser "shifter"
The device lights up with the hit from LIDAR, sets laser shift on
Cop does a double-take when he sees the readout, hits you again.
Between those two hits, you are off the gas, on the brake, and hit "factory default" so that the laser shifter is disabled. If you do get pulled over and the radar detector is checked, "Laser Shift" is set to Off; the legal setting.

Don't worry about hitting your brakes when you get hit by LIDAR or radar. You're probably gonna get a ticket regardless...you can always say you saw him sitting in his car with the LIDAR, most people hit the brakes when that happens.

 

In Canada, radar and lidar detecters are completely illegal which brought up the whole "hitting the brakes" discussion.

 

Get a cordless detector like this Solo. That way, if you get pulled over, you have time to remove it from your windshield or dash, power it down, and toss it under your seat. It also has VG-2 protection.



If you want to spend more, there is this nifty IQ, which is a GPS navigation unit that is also a radar/laser detector, and also has GPS enabled red light and speed camera notification. As far as I know, it's the only GPS device that is also a detector. It also is VG2 immune, so if you got pulled over, the cop would look at it and see that it's just another navigation unit. It's programmable and has alot of features, too much to list, so here's the link for it.

http://www.escortradar.com/iq/

 

Valentine 1 ftw found one on criagslist for $50 two weeks ago. Some old guy getting rid of his grandson's stuff. He really didnt know what it was worth.

 

Wow that was a steal for sure! Good find!

 

Jime had a switch to turn the brake lights off. He said he used it when he was bracket racing.

 

please tell me you bought it.

 

lol^

 

Use the same when going to Vegas I never lead the pack....

 

If anyone is looking for a good deal on a solid detector, here is one. A Bel RX65 blue LED for $150 (until 11/13)

http://bensbargains.net/deal/223927/

 

It looks like it is $150 off the regular price, ad price is $190...still a nice deal!