Radar detector?

[MADMAX]

I have 3
like the cobra best, was cheap too at car toys under 50 bucks how do you beat that ?

http://www.cartoys.com/car-audio/radar-detectors/esd-7570

[CAMPMEAT]

I do believe if you're driving a commercial vehicle, it's a BIG NO, NO.

[Bennick16]

I do believe if you're driving a commercial vehicle, it's a BIG NO, NO.

Even if it's a personal car used for delivering pizzas?

[Bennick16]

Also, would an older radar detector like a passport 8500 from 2002 be considered obsolete with today's technology? Do the x k ka and laser frequencies ever change?

[CAMPMEAT]

I do believe if you're driving a commercial vehicle, it's a BIG NO, NO.

Even if it's a personal car used for delivering pizzas?

Hmmmm, I don't know, since you're not really and employee right ? You're a sun-contractor delivering pizza for a company. I'd say yes, since you're using it for commercial purposes. Call the WSP and local LEO and ask them, would be your best bet.

[Bennick16]

Well I mean I am employed by papa johns, I make pizzas and manage sometimes too. That's interesting, I've never thought about it like that.


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[JDHasty]

I'm looking at a escort passport 9500 on Amazon for 383. Looks like it's gotten good reviews from people. Has anyone had experience with these?

Yes, they are top drawer. 

[JDHasty]

They work, just gotta learn the one you have and learn where all your false reads are.... Mine has saved me from tons of tickets.
X band, usually nothing... K band, 30% could be a cop but likely nothing but automatic doors infront of stores. KA band, 100% the law, I've picked them up over a mile away. Make sure to get a 360 if you do so it will detect all around you. I wont lie, on the back roads out by my house.. I tend to speed alittle.
If I see KA band picked up, I know ahead of time.  I also have a cobra.

I've had an Escort 8500 X50 for several years and recommend highly. 
http://www.costco.com/Escort-Passport-8500X50-Radar-Detector-Blue-Display-with-Supercup-Windshield-Mount.product.100043540.html

False readings on K band is usually an Escort detecting a Cobra or vice versa.  Put competing brands next to each other and they will alternately trigger K band alarms.
The Escort allows you to turn off X band and that is how I have mine set up. 
In my experience, X band is always a false reading, turn it off. 
K band may be an Officer or a Cobra user, check your speed.  KA band is ALWAYS an Officer.
 
Laser, you're hoping he pulls the trigger on someone out in front.  The Escort will detect that at longish range but it's a crap shoot.  Any laser will set it off so you will get repeated false readings around survey sites.

In open country like Eastern WA and Eastern MT, the Escort 8500 will pick up radar several miles away.  In Western WA the distance is significantly reduced but it always surprises my passengers. 
Fife, WA writes more tickets per capita than any other city in WA by a huge margin.  They have been on a mission to reduce all surface road speed limits to well below what an honest engineering study would indicate.  Most people drive at a safe speed.  Speed limits for any given road should be set at the average speed of 80% of the drivers on that road (throw out the fastest and slowest 10%).  When you see the radar on a trailer that tells you your speed, you are involved in an engineering study.

 

[huntingfool7]

Also, would an older radar detector like a passport 8500 from 2002 be considered obsolete with today's technology? Do the x k ka and laser frequencies ever change?

If you're going to step up to a good radar detector, don't buy someones discarded piece.  Whether stolen or defective, you don't need it. 

http://radartest.com/Escort-9500ix-review.asp  Note the line about Redflex photo vans.  They are reported to be a low powered K band.  As far as I know, there are none around here.  Anyone confirm that?

Note his settings!  Buy a detector that you can turn off the X band.  Also, there are almost no Pop radars in the country (none in WA) because they are known to give unreliable readings...Turn off Pop.

Above all, fight every ticket!  The courts do not see it as positive cash flow if the ticket is contested whether you win or lose.  Fight every ticket and you'll learn how to beat them.

[Cylvertip]

I am running this one in two of my rigs.  I found some professional reviews and this one seemed the best bang for the buck per that info.  I have had the cheap ones fail due to warm temperatures in the car on a sunny day here on the Wetside.  The last cheap one lasted 4 months, that's when I made the jump to the Beltonics.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007T3PQRI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


Some false alarms as everyone has stated.  You get a pretty good feel for when those are kicking in though. Though I have run into cops running x band radar in some small towns, but it has been a while ( might be upgraded and replaced with K / KA now).  1-2 mile range on the roads here on the Wet side, if they are running constant. Laser, as stated -  hope they are looking at someone else and you get a heads up from it.

One installation note, the higher on the windshield you mount it, the better it will pick up radar/ laser.  I hardwire mine in buy running a line from the fuse box, then up the windshield pillar (behind the shroud), and then between the roof and the liner, popping out where I want the detector to be at the top of the windshield.  Hook it into something that only comes on when you have the key on.  On the wife's Suburban, I was able to find a power source in the controller up by the rear view mirror and tap into it, so a super easy and short run.   With it hardwired in and high on the windshield, you have the added benefit of making it less visible to both cops and meth maggots. The two times I have had break-ins into the cabs of trucks, they never noticed the radar detector.

[follow maggie]

I do believe if you're driving a commercial vehicle, it's a BIG NO, NO.

Even if it's a personal car used for delivering pizzas?

Your personal vehcle being used to deliver pizza isnt a commercial vehicle. Commcial vehicles ar company owned and i think generally class 4 trucks and up

[Bennick16]

I ended up getting a passport 9500ix and I like it. It gives you a speed readout and it seems like it gives me ample warning. If I was speeding with this, I think it would do the job. I asked a cop and he mentioned that there really isn't an exact definition and it was kind of a grey area but he considered a commercial vehicle one that is over 10,000 lbs and is used for the carrying of goods or people for hire.