themishmosh
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- Joined
- May 10, 2019
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- City, State
- NE Ohio
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2020 Explorer ST
So even when I try really hard, I seem to get stopped for speeding quite a bit. After they look up my driving record over the past decade and see how sporty my Explorer ST is, I know that I am pretty much getting a ticket. However, I have had two speeding tickets in recent history where I was definitely not going as fast as the Police officer claims I was going at. 10-20% of speeding tickets are erroneous and up to 30% if they use radar from a moving patrol car. That's why I have a dash cam with GPS speed logged. Both times when I tell the prosecutor that I have dashcam footage which states I was speeding but no where near the ticketed speed, I got a plea deal of 4mph over the speed limit with no points.
Still, I'd rather not get stopped in the first place so that's where the radar detector comes in. I was most concerned in this day of blind spot monitoring and vehicle use of K band that would give me a bunch of false alarms constantly with older radar detectors. The newer crop of detectors, including the Uniden R7, have pretty good K band filtering that reduces these false alarms. The R7 also has GPS features like automuting when below a set speed like 25mph and memory muting GPS locations with fixed false alerts. All in all, it makes for a detector that is the best I've ever owned and also the quietest. I did encounter a Cadillac SUV that seemed to false alert but otherwise it is pretty quiet. The Explorers' own tech does not alarm the detector at all. The R7 also has arrows like the Valentine1 because the patent had expired and I guess a few models now have this feature. I bought a hardwire kit with mute button which I installed on the steering column. The power was add-a-fused to fuse 02 and runs up the A-pillar and under the front edge of the headliner. I have the detector mounted to a fixed mount taped to the windshield. So if anyone has any doubts about a detector, I would say go for it. I also rely on Waze because you don't get enough warning with laser. The newer detectors are now back to being radar detectors instead of "new car detectors".
Still, I'd rather not get stopped in the first place so that's where the radar detector comes in. I was most concerned in this day of blind spot monitoring and vehicle use of K band that would give me a bunch of false alarms constantly with older radar detectors. The newer crop of detectors, including the Uniden R7, have pretty good K band filtering that reduces these false alarms. The R7 also has GPS features like automuting when below a set speed like 25mph and memory muting GPS locations with fixed false alerts. All in all, it makes for a detector that is the best I've ever owned and also the quietest. I did encounter a Cadillac SUV that seemed to false alert but otherwise it is pretty quiet. The Explorers' own tech does not alarm the detector at all. The R7 also has arrows like the Valentine1 because the patent had expired and I guess a few models now have this feature. I bought a hardwire kit with mute button which I installed on the steering column. The power was add-a-fused to fuse 02 and runs up the A-pillar and under the front edge of the headliner. I have the detector mounted to a fixed mount taped to the windshield. So if anyone has any doubts about a detector, I would say go for it. I also rely on Waze because you don't get enough warning with laser. The newer detectors are now back to being radar detectors instead of "new car detectors".
