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Old 03-24-2018, 09:28 AM   #29
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I have an Escort 9500 from 2008, and get fals alarms up the wazzoo with all the blind spot and radar cruise out there now. I called Escort and spoke to an engineer and he sais when all the radar monitoring first came out the mfgs promised them they would use different frequencies than the bandwith used for police radar. Well, they didn't, and there is no way to upgrade sigtware on older radar detectors to filter out the radar used on modern cars. He said as of now only the Max 360 can filter because its the first ine they made with all new software and filtering. None of their other detectors can filter yet, not until they trickle down their new software design to the cheaper detectors.
When I spoke to Valentine a while ago, they told me that it was more than just a software upgrade on their end for my aging V1; the reason that I had originally bought it besides it's ability to detect was it's ability to be upgraded without requiring a new detector every few years. I sent it in to have it upgraded when POP was released and on another occasion for one other upgrade that I don't recall at the moment. This last time, they had me send in my old detector and sent me a new model at a deeply discounted rate and the difference was night and day. That was probably a good thing since I now have the slimmer model which I prefer with the Camaro's lower interior profile. I'm guessing on the other brand older models, software alone won't solve the issue differentiating between BSM as was the case with my V1 .
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Old 03-24-2018, 11:48 AM   #30
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I have a escort 360 in my Camaro and it works great. Hardly any false alerts. Wife’s XT5 has the Valentine with the latest software and its chirping all the time. Sometimes showing up to 3 vehicles which none are cops. She has finally turned off the sound. Though not perfect the 360 out preforms the Valentine hands down. I’d stay away from the 360C as there seems to be problems with it connecting to the net to update.
Is the Valentine set to ignore the blind spot radar and so forth? I believe that you have to make a setting change. Simply having the new software does nothing until you enable it. I sent my V-1 back some time ago for the upgrade and it doesn't false alert for that stuff anymore, so that is what makes me think that maybe your wife's isn't set correctly.
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Old 03-24-2018, 02:26 PM   #31
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So they say but at times I get all kinds of warnings that just last for a couple seconds and are gone.
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Old 03-24-2018, 10:45 PM   #32
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Uniden R3 is the top performer these days. I did a ton of research prior to getting it a month ago. I was going to go with an Escort 360 until I dug into it. Lots of info on all of the top performers on https://www.rdforum.org/index.php

Also might want to consider a radar detector harness like this - http://www.gen5diy.com/Chevrolet/Cam...ector-Harness/

"This plug and play harness connects inline at the overhead console and allows you to connect your radar detector to either your windshield or to your rearview mirror."

I got the same thing for my Canyon and really liked it, so I just ordered one for the Camaro.

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Had a V1 for 8 years. As it aged it started to pick up too many false alarms from all the new radar built into new cars. After some research decided to buy the R3 vs update the V1. Had it for 6 months, love it so far

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Old 03-25-2018, 07:45 PM   #33
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If you live in the city then Laser Jammers are the way to go but it depends where you live. Usually radar is only used on the Highways nowadays.
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Old 03-26-2018, 06:48 AM   #34
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Another thumps up on The R3.
Had a V1 for 8 years. As it aged it started to pick up too many false alarms from all the new radar built into new cars. After some research decided to buy the R3 vs update the V1. Had it for 6 months, love it so far
Even though I've only had the R3 a short time, there has been two firmware updates adding features and GPS stuff. Check this forum out on a regular basis and you get an early access to the updates:

https://www.rdforum.org/index.php

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