Any thought as to the best ones? I pick up my car today11/18/03
Super Black Touring Roadster.... Didn't sleep well last night.

 

Do a search. There are TONS of threads devoted to this question.

Here is the answer though.....Valentine One!

 

I agree with Dr Bonz. Once you use the V1, you won't ever go back to any other. It's ability to locate the radar (ahead, behind, side) sets it above all the rest.
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can it be hard wired into a roadster?

 

Yes, it can be hardwired. I've had about 5 diff brands of detectors and the V1 is heads and shoulders above all the competition. It has saved my bacon many a times. I put about 30,000 miles a year on hwy & 15,000 miles on city traffic.

 

I hard wired my V1 and permanently mounted it to the rearview window mount using a bracket designed for a Corvette. The Corvette mount was a tip from this board so you can find the part number somewhere using a search. The installation took about an hour or so.

 

Thanks for the help, I will learn more every day.... Just picked up my Super Black Touring Roadster 6 speed, what a car. Had 8 miles on it. This is sweet, I will need the radar detector. I will see how hard it is to install. Ordering a Valintine One today.

 

I just got a V1 for my birthday. I thought I got a little antisocial on my motorcycle but the Z is really dangerous. I found myself running up the interstate a few Sundays ago playing around with ab Audi. We were running 105 and that was through downtown Denver. That will get you a stay in the county motel. Need to be careful. This car just wants to run!!!! You need lots of protection.

 

I personally have the Passport 8500 and love it. From all that I have read the 8500 and the V1 seem to fair about the same.

I hardwired mine in my roadster. The mirror has a plastic cover over its wires. The plastic cover come off so you can put the radar detectors wires in ther with the mirror wires - so you don't see but about an inch of wiring.

Be sure to get the remote sensor - I think V1 has one also.

 

I am planning on a V1 myself: how exactly does one hardwire it? Is it difficult to do? Also, what is the "remote sensor" ephilyawjr speaks about?

 

It's not hard to hardwire it. You can use the power going to the rear view mirror or run the wire down the A-pillar and into the fuse box.

The remote is a smaller less conspicuous unit that you attack to the regular one with the V-1 setup.

 

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Cool. Do you need any fancy tools to attach it to the rearview wires? Is it easy to diss- and reassemble the mirror? And do I have to (yeck) solder anything?

 

I never did the mirror thing but it shouldn't be hard. You don't need to solder anything, just strip the wires and slice them together.

I did mine into the fusebox. Used the cig. lighter fuse for it.

 

I also have the Passport 8500. I save my butt on a road trip to Waco a few weeks back. Got sick of sitting behind slow traffic on a 2 lane highway so I dropped it into 4th and next thing ya know I'm taking out 6 cars at a time doing 110. If I didn't have that detector the cops would have my car by now.

 

i got the Escort Solo2, it's wireless, (runs on batteries) i have 2 cars and needed something that i can easily move from car 2 car
works great, not had a ticket since, saved me a couple of times