Radar Detectors

[crusty]

I want to buy a detector but after an initial look around the net I've decided it's a minefield......Too much choice!!!!
Anyone got one? and can recommend a make/model.
Only stipulation is I want to be able to use it on both my cars.

[shnozz]

road angel. money well spent

[350matt]

Don't bother with radar detectors, as most speed cameras are now the Truvelo type which work off an inductive loop buried in the road. Far better to use the GPS based such as Raod angel or Morpheous

Matt

[alans]

shnozz said:

road angel. money well spent

second that.

[Tivster]

350matt said:

Don't bother with radar detectors, as most speed cameras are now the Truvelo type which work off an inductive loop buried in the road. Far better to use the GPS based such as Raod angel or Morpheous Matt

Absolutely incorrect old boy... the majority are radar operated Gatso.... very easy to get confused by this.

Forward firing Truvelo cameras, operate on a piezo electric triggered loop in the road surface.
Forward firing Gatsos (very few and far between) can operate on either radar or an inductive loop in the road surface

However the majority of portable devices are now Laser devices... so a GPS without a laser detection module is US.

Best buy = Origin B2 with the supplied as standard laser detection module. Also has options to add a laser diffuser and a radar detection module direct to the Origin Blue.

Tivster

[sidpinup]

Road Angel is a must. Very happy with mine. Some of the other GPS systems need to be installed but as I have two cars I like the fact I cant just take my 'Angel with me.

Ed

[rebelmatic]

I'd go for the Road Angel. I have one, and it came with a Radar detector. They are selling them as standard now with the detector ( looks like a black golf ball )
GPS is the way to go!!!

[GCerbera]

What kind of prices are people getting the Road Angel for? £390 ish? (apart from eBay where they seem to be around £330 )

Been offered one via a dealer for £300, but I want to make sure they can't be bought cheaper.

Thanks
Go create some weather...
Graham
TCR The Cerbera Register

www.TVR-Cerbera.com

[sidpinup]

The black ball is a LASER detector, Road Angels don’t detect RADAR. The cheaper ones at £300.00 don’t have this and as most mobile detection these days is laser based its worth getting. You can get them in Halfords for £399

[rebelmatic]

Oops....Sorry..Thats what i meant!! Haden't had enuff coffee at that point obviously!!

[sidpinup]

well dont do it again

[trefor]

Tivster said:

350matt said: Don't bother with radar detectors, as most speed cameras are now the Truvelo type which work off an inductive loop buried in the road. Far better to use the GPS based such as Raod angel or Morpheous Matt Absolutely incorrect old boy... the majority are radar operated Gatso.... very easy to get confused by this. Forward firing Truvelo cameras, operate on a piezo electric triggered loop in the road surface. Forward firing Gatsos (very few and far between) can operate on either radar or an inductive loop in the road surface However the majority of portable devices are now Laser devices... so a GPS without a laser detection module is US. Best buy = Origin B2 with the supplied as standard laser detection module. Also has options to add a laser diffuser and a radar detection module direct to the Origin Blue. Tivster

Tivster - do you use the Origin B2 with it's 'standard laser detection module'? Just interested ... I guess the BiB like to protect themselves from accidentally going over the posted limit too

[GCerbera]

sidpinup said:

The black ball is a LASER detector, Road Angels don’t detect RADAR. The cheaper ones at £300.00 don’t have this...

The one on offer to me does have the black ball laser detector,
it's just being done at a staff rate.

Sounds like it is a good deal.

Go create some weather...
Graham
TCR The Cerbera Register

www.TVR-Cerbera.com

[sidpinup]

Go for it at that price.

[Ballistic Banana]

GCerbera said:

sidpinup said: The black ball is a LASER detector, Road Angels don’t detect RADAR. The cheaper ones at £300.00 don’t have this... The one on offer to me does have the black ball laser detector, it's just being done at a staff rate. Sounds like it is a good deal. Can i Be a member of staff for a while PLLZZ, seems a Very Good price. BB Go create some weather... Graham TCR The Cerbera Register www.TVR-Cerbera.com

[GCerbera]

Maybe I could buy a few?

Go create some weather...
Graham
TCR The Cerbera Register

www.TVR-Cerbera.

[jedi]

Have a chat with Steven at www.radardetectors.co.uk. He sells the lot and knows everything about this minefield. Very good prices too.

Rgds
Jonathan

[darrent]

Graham,

For £300 I'd also have one if your having a bulk buy job.....

[Tivster]

trefor said:

Tivster - do you use the Origin B2 with it's 'standard laser detection module'? Just interested ... I guess the BiB like to protect themselves from accidentally going over the posted limit too

Yep - detection is to err... well... just to ensure Ahem...that I don't get any nasty surprises. Cos of my car, there are a few around who would like to catch me speeding, which of course I don't and can't condone...

The B2 is hardwired into my Forester S/tb WRX Jap Import - did it myself - easy - and I'm buying an additional vehicle kit to install in the T350T when that arrives. This kit costs another £99 from Origin and contains everything bar the B2 brain module.
I accept that the B2 is not as easily moved from one vehicle to another, but this kit gets around that. The advice I've been given is that the B2 is the best GPS based device around and I'll vouch for its ability. Yet to test the laser detector, but in 3 yrs of owning a Bel 980, it never warned me of a single laser, bar some glitch on the M27 (Eastbound) just under the hill fort at Portsmouth....always activated there.
I'll speak to one of my Roads Policing Colleagues to see whether they would be willing to assist in some research with a handheld laser...

Tivster

[350matt]

If you join the ABD you then get 20% off at networx automotive thus bringing the road angel price down to 330 quid ish inc laser detector. Not to mention that you should already be in the ABD of course

Matt