It doesn’t look like much, but if it does its job right, and you really love to speed, it may pay for itself after a few close calls with the Highway Patrol. I was just on a road trip and the radar detector we had was not entirely reliable — but for less than $30, you can’t expect too much. This thing, though, is supposed to detect potentially harmful police radiations up to 13 miles away.
The RedLine from Escort also does all the other luxury radar detector things — for instance, it cloaks itself from radar detector detectors, and radar detector detector detector detectors as well for all I know. I think that’s right. The cops won’t be detecting this thing any time soon, anyway.
It’ll detect pretty much any frequency and display it, and also detects “safety warning messages,” which I don’t really understand. It’ll even detect voltage fluctuations from the car. It seems like a nice piece of kit, but brother, $500 is a lot of ducats to be paying these days when you can get most of the functionality for a tenth of the price. Strictly for enthusiasts only, I guess.
Well, if you paid for a particularly fast car, you can probably drop $500 with no problem. :P
Where’s the GPS?
It guess it doesn’t have one. It probably just says: Alert! Radar Somewhere!! haha
If I shell out $500 for a radar detector, it better put out a signal that displays a big middle finger on the cops display when I drive by at 200mph.
I hope it shows up on Woot!
I hope it shows up on Woot!
Forgot to add good post. Can’t wait to seeing your next one!
Well that’s…odd. I’ll be sure to let you know when I post my next one (after this) so you can “seeing” it then! Cheers!
For $100 less I’d still buy the Valentine One radar detector. One of the most useful features it has is an arrow indicator that tells you if the radar signal is coming from the front or the rear (it has separate detectors for both). Haven’t gotten a ticket since I got one 9 years ago. They will upgrade your unit to support newer radar standards for way cheaper than buying a new one – I’ve had this done twice.
13 Miles away is nice, but how can you speed if you’re getting an alert 13 miles away? that’s 13 whole miles of staying alert.
Also, can you imaging if you’re driving through the city, this thing will constantly go off!
I hope there’s a way to reduce the range at which it detects radars.
$500 dollars is a lot for a radar detecter, but I wish I had something like this for my trips to school. I as caught speeding a few times. One time it was cuz I had to find the nearest rest stop so I could use the bathroom. For $500, I’d want a GPS and a feature to find the nearest rest room for me. http://ziggytek.com/
Devin,
Shame it’s worthless in King County. Both the wife and I had Valentine 1’s, and king and pierce counties swapped to laser detectors and between the two of us got 5 tickets in one year, after 7 years of no tickets.
We sold both v1’s on ebay and drive slow these days.
I’ve saw it here for the first time : http://www.detectoarebune.ro/detectoare-radar-escort_redline.html … indeed, for 500 US$ it should make french fries too :))
Hope it can reduce it’s “magic” so the false alarms go to minimum.
To the guy who lives in laser hell, check this out http://www.guysoflidar.com/july-2008/laser-jammer-test.html
Lidar (laser) jamming is legal. I used to own a front license plate-mounted jammer that isn’t made anymore. One day I saw a police laser speed trap timing cars on the opposite side of the road. I did a u-turn out of curiosity. I noticed with other cars that he was pointing the gun, taking the measurement, then lowering the gun. My jammer was supposed to jam for 7 seconds before it had to shut down due to overheating of the laser element. As I approached the trap, the cop continued to hold his gun on me even as I was about to pass him (with the jammer bleeping like mad of course). I counted about 7 seconds before he lowered the gun. So, the thing seemed to work. They did some real testing of several jammers in the review that I linked.