GEN 2 Radar Detectors

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SOAKINRED

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Hi guys,

I'm looking into radar detectors and I don't anything about them?

I have watched a ton of videos and have narrowed it down, I think?

****** MAX 360C

****** MAX 360

****** REDLINE EX

****** ****** IX

Anyone have any advice or opinions?
 
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I have the 9500ix with the DirectWire ****** Live and very happy with it. If money isn’t an issue get the 360c if you have wifi always on, if not get the 360 and use Live on your phone
 

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I read that you do not want the 360 C if you live in the USA to get the regular one just a heads up

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Look up Uniden R3 reviews. They rate better than the higher priced escorts

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valentine one. hands down.

I may or may not have literally tossed an ****** max 360 out my window after it completely whiffed on an officer running Ka.
 

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i have the 360 on a mirror mount right now. word of warning, that sucker is pretty damn big, and does wobble a little, and with the small text and my 51 year old eyes, I'm not that happy with it.

I have had V1's in the past, but they couldn't allow me to lock out X and K band (where all the false alerts occur, especially around Chevy vehicles), and the constant buzzing drove me nuts.

My last Raptor had the hard mount ****** with the laser shifters and I loved that setup, but it was over 2000 installed. I might just do it again in this one.

as for the wire tapping, played with that as well - my recommendation is taking the wire down the fuse panel and not try to hotwire into the mirror taps. the voltage change can cause some funky things to happen with your cameras and dome lights.
 

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For daily city use, i'd recommend any of the GPS escorts. I've run the 9500ix, max, max2, max360, and (3) revisions of the Valentine1 before those (and concurrenlty w/ the 9500ix & Max1 to compare). Overall, the V1 does has the best distance, but imo the escorts GPS lockout of false alarms and redlight/speedcam database negates any V1 distance superiority. The escorts still provide more than adequate distance w/o driving you/family crazy with false alarms. You will still get false notices these days with any detector especially with new sensor/adaptive cruise technology, but any alerts that you can minimize will add to your sanity.

Playing devils advocate, V1 does offer some newer features that weren't avail when I owned them. K1 fighter is supposed to help reduce alerts. Also they have a OBD adapter that you set a MPH threshold and will reduce alerts to near mute volume levels when under that set speed. I saw this as a great option, but would continually need to adjust it between residental/city/highway etc, which i would unlikely do. ****** does also have a threshold option to notify you when you go over a set mph.


If you run the live remote beside the steering wheel, you have discrete easy reach to mute button or to kill the power without somoee behind you noting you reach up to the device. This Live remote adds bluetooth functionality (****** live app/database/etc) to the older devices, but i like it simply for the remote functionality. I.e. the max 2 is simply the max1 with bluetooth built into it for the live app. V1 offers a similar remotes as well, but no bluetooth functionality. They also look to have added a similar app more recently, but likley not anywhere near the users on the ****** network

In all the years ive really only used the live app a few times. Theyre basically trying to create a waze like network. On a daily basis who wants to have to open all these apps or change settings etc just to run to store. The new 360C could prove to be very functional in this case. If your truck/car has wifi, it will automatically update its firmware and redlight camera/speed camera data bases. It is also supposed to update the live user network realtime, to benefit from the other drivers noting fuzz etc

Hope this helps, here's a shot of the Live remote mounted to my steering column, also link to my hardwire writeup. Since i added the remote, i needed to wire down the a pillar vs doing a mirror tap
http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f266/how-hardwire-fusetap-52895/

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