Archive for January, 2010

Best Radar Detector

One of the best radar detectors, in my honest opinion, is the Escort 8500 X50. It offers the most bang for your buck and has many features on it that the more expensive ones have including POP protection. My personal favorite detector and the one I run with in my Corvette is the Valentine One. Valentine takes a lot of heat from the average consumer because it is expensive, it beeps a lot and it is not very pretty (I guess it depends who you ask!). When you really look at it though this beauty is a diamond in the ruff, its not what’s on the outside its what’s on the inside! I have been running with this detector for over two years now and I haven’t looked back. While it was expensive I feel it has paid for itself in the amount of money it has saved me in fines. It never fails to alert me in time so I can slow down to the posted speed limit, it actually has saved my license and kept me out of jail several times! Another quam with this detector is that it alerts a lot but when you learn how to customize it to your driving and your area, you can cut the false alerts in half. Also after driving with the detector for two months I could sift through what was note worthy or not. All in all these two detectors are not perfect and they both have their flaws but I feel they are both well worth the money. While no detector is going to make you invincible to cops they do give you a fighting chance, you just have to allow them to work for you and know how to use them to their advantage. My recommendation is to get the Escort 8500 X50 and drive with it for a few months and if you feel that you need something better, upgrade the Valentine V1 and you will not be sorry you did!

Radar Detector Reviews

With gas prices on the rise and money becoming tighter, you just cant afford to be getting speeding tickets. The sad thing is that speeding tickets can be avoided with a decent radar detector. By decent I don’t mean a hundred dollar cobra from Wal-Mart, if you want any kind of warning from it you are going to have to shell out about two hundred dollars. These cheap models are nothing but a “ticket” detector; they let you know when you are about to get one. These cheap radar detectors are a dime a dozen and you really need to know which one is the best because it can be very confusing when trying to pick one out, believe me I have been there. I wasn’t born knowing all about the best radar detectors I have spent a few years scouring the internet searching for the white knight and I have found several.