i think im gonna go wit the escort 8500 x50 or the valintine

 

escort is badass..

the valentine looks like a damn VCR

 

Passport X50. Been using Escorts for about 5 years now, from the 7500, 7500S, 8500 and now 8500 X50. I don't speed too fast/too often, but usually hover 5-10mph over the limit. Considering I'm young, drive a silver convertible top down on blue wheels with no front plate, loud ass ehaust and CR lip/wing/etc - no tickets/pull overs - I'd say they work pretty well. I usually know WELL in advance of seeing them that I'm coming up on them, or they're coming up on me. Like someone said, its a RADAR detector, not a COP detector, but I will say that I HIGHLY disagree with the sentiment that most cops don't have their radar on most of the time - they usually DO.

The Passport 8500 X50 is a fantastic radar detector and always rates high (along with the V1) - sometimes beating it out, sometimes not. It looks nice, easy to use/understand, and is very effective at doing what its designed to do.

 

I had one for quite a while, but recently sold it to to not using it very much at all. I guess it may have been more handy if cops up here sat in more than just 2 places in town, but since they are never anyplace else it is mot much of a problem for me. Plus I don't speed much it at all so it wasn't a big deal for me. I did it find it necessary, but that is in my situation and experience. Depending on where you are at though, one might come in handy a little more than where I am at.

-Ian

 

BINGO, i work in retail dealing with car electronics, and you wouldnt belive the amount of people that belive that their detector is broken because they passed by a cop and it didnt go off.

 

when i lived in mississippi that was absolutely true, but here in salt lake city, UT it's false.

it's area dependent--there's no requirement for them to drive with it on OR off. it just depends on the individual cop and what's common practice among the local area's police.

 

In the Toronto area most cops radar turns on when they turn on the car and stays on.

 

i'm selling an escort 8500x50 blue.

 

i got a Escort SOLO S2 wireless for sale. asking $230.00

PM me if interested. New condition!!!!

 

this has turned into a FS thread