Which radar detector setup?

**twotyred** · 17th February 2008, 20:03

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

mind you its new zealand so they might only just pull you up by chance or by instincts .. or if they see the suction cups on your cage windows...

all the more reason for EVERY law abiding citizen to put an empty black box suction cupped to their window ... lets waste some more of their time seeing as they are so bent on wasting it on the highways rather than on catching criminals..

**HornetBoy** · 17th February 2008, 20:06

Originally Posted by twotyred

wasting it on the highways rather than on catching criminals..

well seeing as alot of crimes are committed on the road -drunk drivers ...etc dont mind if they catch them people,wouldn't want them plowing me off the road

but i see what ya mean.

the other thing is if you buy an expensive enough detector then it will not be able to be detected by the police,something like that would cost you $1000+ id say (looking at the latest ones that say undetectable eg they do not leak a signal that can be detectd)

**Swoop** · 17th February 2008, 20:17

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

suck!! so they are going to use detector detectors ?

Who cares? Get an STi and peace of mind.

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

the other thing is if you buy an expensive enough detector then it will not be able to be detected by the police,something like that would cost you $1000+ id say

Not quite true. The Bel STi is the best unit on the market at the moment and is undetectable. It is also quite nicely priced...

**sAsLEX** · 17th February 2008, 20:19

Originally Posted by Swoop

Not quite true. The Bel STi is the best unit on the market at the moment and is undetectable. It is also quite nicely priced...

You wanna bet?

I bet I could detect it with some of the kit at work. It more than likely is little different to other detectors.

Ever wonder how the vans could detect tvs without licenses?

**HornetBoy** · 17th February 2008, 20:20

Originally Posted by Swoop

Who cares? Get an STi and peace of mind.

Not quite true. The Bel STi is the best unit on the market at the moment and is undetectable. It is also quite nicely priced...

... well its priced at $850 but id have to disagree that the sti is the "best" i would put my money with a V1.8 for the vote at best at this point in time.

i would look at ebay if you going to pay that much for a radar detector,in my opinion, NZ tuned means nothing but someone who has changed the pop2 and all the rest of the settings to nz specs (which u can do very easily) so why pay $850NZ when you can pay something like 400-500 nz from ebay

**twotyred** · 17th February 2008, 20:21

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

well seeing as alot of crimes are committed on the road -drunk drivers ...etc dont mind if they catch them people,wouldn't want them plowing me off the road

well that makes the ceaseless revenue collection ok then...

**HornetBoy** · 17th February 2008, 20:25

Originally Posted by twotyred

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

well seeing as alot of crimes are committed on the road -drunk drivers ...etc dont mind if they catch them people,wouldn't want them plowing me off the road

well that makes the ceaseless revenue collection ok then...

of course not ,but if everyone was left to their own devices and sped around without speed limits being policed then you would be asking for a change of prioritys towards this.

**Defiant** · 17th February 2008, 20:27

Pfft.....if the law passes or not doesnt matter......just conceal it with an external sensor mounted inside your park light housing. then you need an indepentdant on/off switch somewhere easy to reach but out of site. Then you use the "huh???? what detector you must have picked up the car behind me or something officer?....check again......", Its gonna be another stupid law...what bout the new cars that have auto safety protection for GPS they slow the vehicle when you go too far over the limit when turned on? and they intend to ban those too......Geeze that means they might have to recall half the governments fleet of limos and polly's cars.

Get a front mount mount heaps cheaper and you gonna be using it more on the open road anyway cause we know you dont intend to speed in 50 zones Aye!???....lol..

**Swoop** · 17th February 2008, 20:28

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

You wanna bet?
I bet I could detect it with some of the kit at work.

We are talking about the public servant's being "possibly" issued a cheapo detector device, that is already being used overseas. This has been proven not to detect the STi. I posted a link to these tests in one of the detector threads. All the top detectors (including the Valentine) were put up against the usual radars and detector-detectors.
Only one was worth investing in. Longer detection range (handy for instant-on on other vehicles some way up the road) and immune to RDD.

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

... well its priced at $850 but id have to disagree that the sti is the "best" i would put my money with a V1.8 for the vote at best at this point in time

See above. Your choice.

**HornetBoy** · 17th February 2008, 20:30

Originally Posted by Defiant

Pfft.....if the law passes or not doesnt matter......just conceal it with an external sensor mounted inside your park light housing. then you need an indepentdant on/off switch somewhere easy to reach but out of site. Then you use the "huh???? what detector you must have picked up the car behind me or something officer?....check again......", Its gonna be another stupid law...what bout the new cars that have auto safety protection for GPS they slow the vehicle when you go too far over the limit when turned on? and they intend to ban those too......Geeze that means they might have to recall half the governments fleet of limos and polly's cars.

Get a front mount mount heaps cheaper and you gonna be using it more on the open road anyway cause we know you dont intend to speed in 50 zones Aye!???....lol..

but the concealing part is the part where it will most fail ..as you would be obstructing the radars view i would think .. woulnt that decrease the effectiveness of it ?

i think if your going to get one put it behind your screen and make use of it fully ,as i dont think they would be able to spot a detector on a bike unless they had one of these detector detectors..

**sAsLEX** · 17th February 2008, 20:43

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

but the concealing part is the part where it will most fail ..as you would be obstructing the radars view i would think .. woulnt that decrease the effectiveness of it ?

Point to the main radar below.

well you cant as its covered, and if it works for the RN!?

**homer** · 17th February 2008, 20:52

since theres always a fix to everything

example :radar = radar detector
:radar decector = radar decectors

Do we then need a radar dector and another device to detect the radar detectors the police may have with them to detect the radar detector that you have .

**puddytat** · 17th February 2008, 20:56

Dont forget that they tend to keep the finger off the "trigger" till they spot a likely target...dont tend to get much if any warning at all unless they've flashed someone else, & often its the mufti's...

**CookMySock** · 18th February 2008, 07:17

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

but the concealing part is the part where it will most fail ..as you would be obstructing the radars view i would think .. woulnt that decrease the effectiveness of it ?

no. Behind your screen or behind your fairings - makes no difference. Plastic is transparent to microwaves. The main thing is not to inadvertantly refocus the beam (dont put it in a headlight) or put it too low so it can't "see". It will only report what it can "see", and microwave energy is more like light than other radio frequencies - especially 30GHz.

Originally Posted by Hornet250Boy

i think if your going to get one put it behind your screen and make use of it fully ,as i dont think they would be able to spot a detector on a bike unless they had one of these detector detectors..

yeah this is looking like the go, under the cowl somewhere and remote the warning lights. The other thing to do is once you have a solid warning is to turn the unit off.

DB