Celica Forums General Discussion Exterior New Radar Detector!

God, so many stupid posts on one thread. I shall entertain myself by responding to them.

1) Who wanted to build the detector into the dash?! The pickup eye on the unit has to be in the radar's line of sight to work. That's dumber than the people who put it on their center console or passenger seat.

2) Who said their detector sucked because he drove by a cop (who was moving?!) and didn't have it go off? The cop has to have his radar gun out for the detector to work! If the cop is driving, he can't use his radar.

3) Yes, the Cobra units aren't as good as the Valentine or Escort ones. However, they do work. I have a Cobra that I use solely for long road trips (ie Vegas) and it works fine. I could have got a better model that would give me a more accurate warning, but for my use it's fine.

4) Yes, it'd be smarter to simply not speed. But get real. EVERYONE speeds. The sad part is that the worst offenders aren't usually the ones who get caught. I've had more friends nailed by speed traps for doing 75 in a 65 than you can count. At the same time, I have friends who drive 95 all the time and never get busted. Just because you have a radar detector doesn't mean you drive like a maniac, it just means you drive like 99% of the people on the road and don't want to get singled out and ticketed.

congratulations on wasting your money!

if you were going to invest in a radar detector, you should've went with the valentine one or escort. but if you were REALLY smart, you would do the logical thing and NOT SPEED.

Tib's cant go fast, that's why his "works fine". It's not going to work, your going to make your car ugly.

And to the retard saying he circled a car, and the radar didnt go off... It's a RADAR DETECTOR, NOT A COP DETECTOR. COPS DONT DRIVE WITH THEIR RADAR ON 24/7.

And to the retard saying he went to a corner and drove by cops checking for speeders... COPS CAN TELL IF YOUR SPEEDING BY EYE, THEN POINT THE RADAR AT YOU. If he knows your not speeding, he's not going to waste his time. Plus, why alert other drivers with radar detectors that their are checking..

Come on guys, let's use our brains here.