Despite its legality - posts on here suggest it can be the difference with a cop warning / ignoring you or giving you that dreaded ticket. Not sure if any truth in it though. Be interesting to get opinions on this actually......

Not hard to read in other positions - however in my experience it's the beeps that save you.

 

Thanks for the replies. I have spent today (after washing car) installing the various bits. I have the detector behind the left hand side of the rear view mirror. I have attached the antenna using velcro to the centre of the dash by the windscreen and installed the b2 itself at the right of the dash as above. Cullywoo, I like your install, but I couldnt find a way of routing the wires in that position? Did you drill a small hole?

I fitted the pieces without removing any trim and now all I need to do is the wiring.

Maplins were quite unhelpful (seems to be the case in my experience).

I can see what I need to do and now I just need to rig it up. Maplins didnt have any 1amp fuses, so Hellfrauds sorted me out and I bought a 1amp radio fuse. Is that the right one? Its probably about 1.25" and (worryingly) says 1A 250V at the metal top of the fuse (there was no reference to the 250V on the packaging). Its the only 1A fuse they had and so assumed it would do the job..... Am I wrong?

 

What posts are those? I can't remember seeing anything to the effect that the Dibble are more likely to give grief to those with a GPS detector

 

That fuse sounds like it'll do the trick - have you a separate in line fuse holder or are you chaning the one in the aux socket? Had a look and mine also says 250V - fairly sure its just the ampage that matters.

Yeah - I needed to drill small hole (5mm) in the corner of the tray. Always had the attitude of not harming my car but got snapped once when I hadn't been bothered to plug origin back in after a night shift. I figured my licence was more important. This way its always on and when parked up just close the console door.

(luckily ticket never arrived - ?no film in the camera?)

 

I have a seperate inline fuse holder - so Im planning on plugging in the supplied adapter with the aux socket I bought, then the live runs through a 1A inline fuse and into the fuse box. Then earth to the grounding point.

Have I got that right?

 

I connected one bare wire from the end of the inline fuse holder to the live/positive wire from the aux adapter and the other to the fuse box supply with the ground to ground point.

But sounds like same thing.

 

I think the point is that GPS devices aren't in fact "detectors". They rely on a database of actual or probable camera locations and, as such, are no different to satnav systems with additional POIs.

IIRC, it would only be the laser detector component of the b2 that could be construed as illegal.

 

I guess I'm paranoid but the opinion was that if Mr Plod spots it he'll think you're of the ilk that thinks he can avoid the law (and are advertising the fact that you have a heavy foot) - and on the occaision he was going to 'send you on your way' he may get that notebook out.

 

Ok chaps, this is what I have ready to be wired up tomorrow.



Brown live wire is wored to the +ve point on auxillary socket, running through an inline 1A fuse through to a spade connector which I will hook up to the ignition line on the fusebox. Then I will connect the ground (blue) wire to the gorund point or any other point I can reach where I can find a screw into the metal chassis.

If I am going wrong anywhere now is the time to tell me as I dont want to be blowing things up come tomorrow.

Thanks again

 

perfect. One hint: before you attach to what you think is a ground point check it with a circuit tester - if you get a strong signal when pressed against another metal point in a car - it'll do the trick.