just got a used valentine from a buddy of mine, ive seen this in action in his car and it worked great...threw it in my car and bam i went past at least 4-5 cop cars today and it didnt make a sound except when I was passing a cop that had already pulled someone over.

i have every window tinted (included windshield) but i was assured that the type of film I got (non-metalized) would not affect radar detectors in anyway...

ive tried it on all 3 modes with the same results everytime...

any ideas??? windows were down the whole time, windshield is 35% and the back 3 are 2 layers of 5%....initally i figured it was cause my back window is sooo dark but even when i was trailing a cop today...it still wouldnt pick it up.

any ideas? im leaning towards tint but everyone says non-metal is fine for radars.

 

uhh you know just because you pass a cop doesn't mean they have their radar ON.

 

Radar Dector does NOT equal Cop Detector. Just remember that. I'm sure it's working properly. At least 1/2 the cop cars I pass don't have radar on. I rely more on my self than my radar for seeing cops (at least in the areas I know). It's just something that helps. And remember a cop doesn't need to have his radar on to tell if you're speeding or not. A buddy of mine couldn't get that concept in his head and wound up with a speeding ticket lol

 

lol x 2...some people actually think it will detect cops...i've actually met these people.

 

Wait until you find out about the joys of rolling radar.

 

:facepalm:

People need to stop wasting money on these stupid things.

 

My cousin is a cop. I did a 'ride-along' with him one night in hopes of seeing how the 'other side' works. He said some cops are lazy and just leave their radar on... But other 'gung-ho' cops leave them off and have a toggle switch that it actually connected via a wire to their radar. They can leave it in their lap and when they see a car they suspect is going a tad bit faster than it should...they can FLICK IT ON... and nail you just like that.

So a radar detector isn't a freedom guarantee to speeding. it's simply a tool to use to lessen the chance of you getting nailed. OR..as some people say it's just a TICKET INDICATOR..that let's you know when you've been nailed.

 

That's all a radar detector is. It detects radar. And by the time the detector goes off the officer has already hit you and knows what your speed is.

 

I agree a radar is a waste of money and all they do is tell you its too late and your screwed

 

Yes, but how far they detect the radar is the key. This summer I drove across the US from Arizona to Ohio. A LARGE part of that was spent in the triple digits. I lost count of the times when it went off.... I slowed down.... only to find the trooper 3 or more miles down the road.

If you have a QUALITY radar detector, they can save you. A cheepie for 100-200$ isn't going to do that.

Now lasers..that's as you mentioned above. The "beam" on a radar is wide...and gets substantially wider the further away you are from it. Making it easier to detect. Lasers on the other hand are a pin-point accurate speed detector. If you get pinged by them and you're going too fast...TOO LATE.

There is a FIX for lasers though.

1st, it is illegal to "Jam" radar. It's a big no-no. However, it's perfectly legal to have a laser jammer (in most states) With a good radar detector, and a laser jammer, your chances of being able to sustain a speed are much greater.

 

hmm, i do know that they dont detect cops, just their radars but he lives in a diff city (ballwin) and when i drove with this thing there it went off everytime a cop was in sight. what im thinking is some cities/cops just leave it on all day and like was said before some turn it off and on throughout the day....

 

Thats what I meant by rolling radar, I have a detector myself, the other night I'm on my way to a buddies, it was dark so I couldn't see what kind of cars were coming at me just headlights, all of the sudden the detector starts freaking out, lucky for me I wasn't speeding but he waited until he was 500 yards away from me, turned it on, found out I wasn't speeding and turned it back off again, all before I could even tell for sure it was a cop coming at me (we were like the only cars on that section of road) or one hiding in a bush or someones driveway up the street.

Either way there good for certain types of radar traps, but cops will always find a way to exploite any weakness in radar/ lazar detectors, so in the end its just providing a false sense of security, Plus in the US the cops can give you a ticket by pacing you with there car or I herd even planes, in which case there would be no radar to detect, glad they don't do that **** here...yet.

 

Yeah, if I'm the only car on the road I DEFINATELY know that the RD isn't going to save me.