Undetectable radar/laser detectors

On the other hand, if you don't speed it will never save you a cent.

8-)

My Father-in-Law! Is a Traffic Cop here in W.A. and if he pulls people over that have them (I used to have one) he treats it as pretty much an Admission of Guilt to speeding!!

Just my 2 cents worth!

Matt

G'day NissanNut,

take a look here 'n' tell me if your still interested?

http://www.australianradar.com.au/news.htm

Rgds

Ron

I do a lot of driving on the highway and have to date 3 tickets for exceeding the speed limit, that resulted from innacurate radars, lidars or just plain stupid use by the cop concerned. I was not exceeding the speed limit in any of the cases, and I was on cruise control with speed alert set. I now have my GPS running at all times and a log of the speed which I keep on PDA, maybe that will help me next time.

I also have a ticket for crossing a double white line. I was pulled up 35 kilometres later by a cop who didn't even witness the event, who said I was on a road I wasn't on, and who was told of the event by a speed camera operator who was more than 1000 metres from the event, and failed to obseve that I was almost t-boned by a car of the same colour but a different make, and it was my evasive action that put me across the line.

I am sorry to say that there are a few few cops out there who just make it plain hard for us all.

I think you will find that Radar Detectors are illegal in N.S.W. the rip off state.

I have had radar detectors in my vehicles for about 5 years.

saved my bacon multiple times when i was young and stupid (ok...5 years younger and stupider lol) and single with a V8 hilux!!!

However, IMHO they are becoming more obselete all the time (yeah u can play the game and keep buying new $1000 units)

1) they are crap on speed camera's...give no warning (you can see the camera before hand most of the time anyway)

2) Cops use new tactics....eg leaving their radar off so u cant pick them up...the turning them on, and it doesnt give u enough response time....

probably 3/4 of traffic cops i drive past in WA dont have their radar on at the time.

3) they arent as effective on handheld and lasar units.

So...i rarely use mine now...and tend to stick more to the speed limit.

26 next week and im turning into an old man....sigh :-(

Rev

Thanks all,
I HAVE read the signs and KNOW what the speed limits are. I'm not really interested if sit on 90 in a 100 zone, I wanted to know if anyone had used one of these detectors and with what degree of success.

We can all lie and say we have never gone over the designated speed limit in our life, which of course I never have either...! (bull5h1t) I dont agree with speeding, it belongs on a race track, but I'm the sucker you always see on the side of the road being booked for doing 102km/h when my cruise control was set on 100, and have never got off a single fine! (not for a lack of trying). Thanks for the link Ron, interesting read.

So, if anyone else can help me with the performance of these or other detectors please do so, otherwise keep your inflated moralistic ego's quite on this thread.

NUTS!

I would stick to Valentine 1 if you are going to buy one, always were the best and in my opinion still are. The issue of undetectability has always been put forward by various manufacturers and I dont know if any truely are undetectible, I know the Bel detectors used to set off my V1 but the V1 didnt set them off so they were pretty detectible even though they were claiming undetectability.

After years of using my detector legally in WA I think I will have to retire it soon, the NAZIS aka Michelle Roberts - Minister for police in WA is planning on legislating to make them illegal. No mention of compensating owners for them - even though they allowed them to be sold and their government happily collected import duty and sales tax on them for years while they were being sold. I would have thought rampant numbers of break ins, bashings, car theft, bag snatching etc etc would be more important than radar detectors. Detectors are banned in other states but suprise suprise they still had high numbers of fatalities on the road at Xmas, higher than WA. If they were serious about road deaths they would stop hiding patrol cars and cameras behind bushes at the bottom of hills and right next to where the limit changes down and get all the police on the road and have a much larger VISIBLE presence and use fixed cameras in black spots along with making all drivers qualify for a truck license to get their car licence so that they have an understanding of speed and braking distances.

Thats my winge out of the way.........

I know speeding is illegal, and in a 4WD I do less of it, but before people get on their horse about this topic I suggest they get rid of their selective memories, I am sure everyone here has got behind the wheel of a powerful car at some stage before, and felt the temptation to put the foot down, even if it was only a quick foray on to the wrong side of the law before calming down again. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone".

I used to use a detector (can't remeber the make) and got pulled over by a officer of the law who just happened to see it on the dash as he went past in the opposite direction (we were in a built up area at the time and it wasn't even turned on). Result 'on the spot' fine of $1200 and loss of 3 points (NSW). So its really irrelevant if they are detectable or not!!

l bet that if there was a radar detector on the market that was made to look like a packet of ciggy's and picked up every known type of radar and cost $10 everybody would own one...even all the dogooders.

When I got my Patrol I took it for a drive and noticed the GPS said I was doing 105k's but the Speedo said I was doing 100k's

Much arguing with Mr Nissan resulted to nothing as it was with in spec.

Trip to Jaycar....$50 Speedo corrector kit.

I added 15% so now my speedo reads 10% faster

I know now when my speedo says 120.....really I'm doing 108-110.

Didn't tell the lead foot wife so it saves my back pocket.

Thanks again all, some interesting stories.....

My 80series uses too much fuel if I speed so I dont do it, its the 50 to 80 km/h zones where ive had the most trouble in the past.

Motorbikes are the biggest worry, they are just soooo easy to speed on. I got booked once on my old GSXR1100 after taking evasive action, the car next to me started to move into my lane when I was riding right next to his front door, so I swerved and gunned it just enought to get infront of his bonnet then dropped back down to 60 straight away. 100m down the road got pulled over and booked for doing 6km/h over the limit. Another time cresting a hill, on a bike you dont want your eyes to be anywhere but on the road infront of you as you go over the crest, just in case. My speed crept up a tad as i wasnt backing off the throttle quick enough and a patrol car went past right on the crest, turned around and booked me for doing 103 in a 100 zone!

These are just a couple of examples from my days of riding bikes..... I'm not an arrogant person and have never been a smartass when pulled over but cops must see a sign on my head that says: 'roll me hard'.

Anyway, Thanks for all the responses, youve opened my eyes somewhat.

Cheers
NUTS!