I'm thinking of getting a Belltronics Vector radar dectecor. They are illegal in VA, but I would rather take the risk, then a ton of tickets..Do any of you guys use them where they are illegal? How do you mount them? Belltronics said the new Vector models are not detectable by the detectors..I'm not so sure if I believe them...Any cops, please advise..

 

I was going to mount my Valentine One somewhere on the inside roof/headliner in front of the moonroof, behind the windshield, above the rear view mirror.. I still need to find a decent looking console box that matches my interior and then I am going to hardwire it and run the wiring from the console..into the headliner.. down the A pillar....

 

where can you put it so a cop can't see it?

 

well just be creative.. on the set up im going to use.. on the console that faces you and the back of the vehicle its going to be tinted.. so u cant really see the detector unless its on.. plus w/ it enclosed and hard wired (no wire down to cigg lighter) they might just think its a sunroof console or dome/map light.. I doubt the cop will see it in my car...

 

GSRaCERb0I, exactly were are you putting it? This a 3rdG GSR right?

 

well I still need to find a console box or something that matches my interior that looks right and has the right dimensions... yeah 3rd gen 95...

 

You need to worry about the tint from the top few inches of windshield blocking the detector. Maybe you can remove just some that's in front of it.

Also check out the Valentine One web site, much better than a bell, and the remote locator setups they have.

I've heard of taking apart a detector and installin it in the grill, but I don't know if it could be done. Anybody see this before?

 

I already have a Valentine one, I plan to mount it in a console box where the tint would be is on the console box not on my windshield.. the part that faces the cabin/rear of the vehicle.. so its lights and indicators are less visible (when on) to cops and other drivers... the tint is not on the windshield.. I'm planning to have the detector mounted on my headliner enclosed in a console box that matches the vehicles interior color..

 

if it is illegal, then why do you want to have it installed and run the risk of the trouble it will bring

 

Yeah from what I hear, it's not worth the risk. the price for getting caught with one is worse than any ticket ever could be

 

I don't think its illegal in CA.. at least not that I know of.. the main reasons I want to "hide" it.. is so that 1) I dont have to physically take it out and hide it from theives everytime I park... 2) so others don't see you have a radar detector while driving.. and flock around you to see when u slow down and such when u get a reading... 3) i think the cop is more likely to give you a ticket if he see's the radar detector.. cuz he'd probably think. if you bought that.. you probably like to speed.. so thats why I want to hide it.. mostly cuz I don't want to have to hide it everytime I park... and I want it fixed/stationary.. so I dont have to have the wire in the cigg lighter...

 

GSRaCeRbOI
Hope it works out for you.
I meant the tint windshields usually have at the top that fades as it goes down-I thought most cars had this. I might try the same thing as you if I could scrap off some in front of the detector and find a box. JC Whitney might have something that would work-but you might have to dye it the right color or just re cover it. Let us know how it goes.

 

Well, I don't think they take apart the detector but there is a place in Dallas that installs a radar on the car (front and back) I think for around $250.

 

Whistler 3300 has a remote mount ...very clean




-Rage

 

thats some nice concealment...as a temperature guage....

i really dont understand why valentine wont have something like a remote sensor mount.... I wonder if I can take apart my valentine and run some extended wiring and mount the sensor in another place than the shell of the radar....

 

I believe the problem with doing that to a V1 is that it has two antennas (and presumably 2 recievers). If you mount it at the front of the car, the rear antenna is obstructed. If you were to seperate the antennas (put one at the front and one at the rear), it would kill the bogey location feature because the V1's software calculates the bogey location based on the signal strength readings from both antennas; altering the antennas would screw up the readings (ie the rear antenna may become more receptive than the front, so it would think everything's coming from the rear). If you change the reception capabilities of an antenna, that screws it up; changing the distance between the antennas could screw it up too.

Of course, this is just what I think, based on my theory of how the V1 locates bogeys... I believe it just reads the signal strength from each antenna and compares them... if the front antenna has a stronger signal then the radar is ahead, if the rear antenna has a stronger signal then it's coming from behind, and if they are approximately the same strength signal it's coming from a side. Since the antennas are mounted so close to each other, I would expect that there's a lot of precision in both the receiver(s) and the firmware.

 

I wouldn't buy that radar detector you should get the valentine one check the website http://www.valentineone.com honestly from all the articles I have read about and all the test this is the best detector on the market, if anyone says it isn't there just dumb, check the site, i have one 6 of my friends have them its seriuosly the best.

 

I can honestly tell you that in the past few months that i have owned it, it has saved me on around 10 occasions in which I would have probably gotten busted without the alarm. These would be little city street with 25 mph speed limits and the cop coming the opposite direction or out of a court or something while i was going over 40.

 

if you really wanted to conceal it, you can probably mount it in the dome light locations, and then take out the front end (the one with all the display of bands , strengths, and directions, and take out the speaker. mount the speaker in your headrest, mount the display's in your dashboard.

 

There is really no point for a radar detector anymore. Cops are starting to just use the gun instead of the constant beam. More and more cops are doing that these days. Yeah it saves you from seeing a cop riding down the road. I would invest my money into something else, but if u are getting a detector, I would get a Valentine.

 

id get a laser scrambler but i dont know how the cop will react when he beams me and his laser will jump all over the palce...

he'll pull me over and probably try to find it all around the car and then give me a ticket with 4 digits on it.

 

Ya I don't trust mine for 100% or anything, but it's saved me from cops coming the other direction enough to pay for itself 10 times

I think the dome light location is a great Idea, but extending the wires might not work since dat **** is sensitive and longer wires can change the impedence-but I'm not an elec engy so I dunno.

 

this is not possible.
Lasers are LIGHT, you cannot scramble it, just reflect it at odd/weird angles.

Even if there is such a thing (i would be strangely enlightened) but the cop would not "see" his laser jump all over, it would just not report anything on his detector.

Most cops point their laser at the front license plate because it reflects back nicely.

-Rage

 

go to k40.com they have the laser difusers and remote hidden units. well worth the price and awesome setups. they come with some porches

 

where can I find out if Baltimore County police use lasers? I have yet to have the L signal go off on my valentine One. I guess thats a good thing ::knock on wood::