Radar Detector

lil black liberty · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:25 am

Hey, I know you guys have to have Radar's in them Jeeps :roll:

So list your set-up here, and tell me what you think is the best and why. I'd personally like to know because I am on the market for a new detector.

long_tall_texan · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:09 am

I have an Escort Passport 8500 X50. It is an older version of the new Passport 9500i. THe only real difference is the new one has a GPS inside it so you can mark common false alarms so it doesn't go off every time you pass that same stupid gas station with the electronic front door. I would highly reccommend any of the ones from Escort. They are top notch. You can find the 8500 X50 used on eBay or CL all of the time pretty reasonable. I have been using this one for a couple of years. I speed pretty much all of the time, and I don't have a ticket yet. (knock on wood)

lil black liberty · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:54 pm

Awesome yeah that is exactly what I was thinking about getting.. do you have the red or blue?

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:16 pm

I don't need to spend the money on one, I drive the speed limit. Forty-Five years driving and 1 speeding ticket.

Terry

lil black liberty · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:26 am

Driving the speed limit though sometimes is boring...The Need For Speed runs in my veins

Simply because my Dad had a lead foot! :lol:

long_tall_texan · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:30 am

I have the red. Got it off CL for only $60. Still had the box, hard case, and a permanent wiring kit.

lil black liberty · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:37 am

Holy Cow...

riptricket · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:57 am

This is what I have Whistler XTR-260.
It works extremely well and helps let me know when cops are around. I got it for free because my brother works for an electronics distributor and they have freebies from time to time.

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:42 pm

lil black liberty wrote:

Driving the speed limit though sometimes is boring...The Need For Speed runs in my veins

Simply because my Dad had a lead foot! :lol:

Does this have anything to do with your frontend damage? :lol:

Terry

lil black liberty · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:33 pm

no not at all

seriously though, I was going 25mph the street speed limit and hit my brakes and my brakes didn't act like they worked.. so slam! right into the back of his truck.. :cry:

Fulltimer · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:57 pm

Black ice maybe?

Terry

To_The_Max · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:46 am

Love my Valentine ONE

although they are one of the more expensive. I like how I can send it in for an updated version for something like $200. Cheaper in the long run. I have had mine for 10 years and still works great. What I really like is the bogey counter and direction the radar is coming from. Keeps you informed when the cops are shooting at one location and again just up the road a little ways. I have received one ticket while running with my valentine but that was my own fault :cry:

. I was going 80 in a 55 thru a city in Kentucky on a holiday weekend. The police were sitting up on the overpass shooting down at traffic with 5 pick-em-up police up the road 1/4 mile. I usually run with a CB but didn't grab it for this trip. Valentine one did go off but only to tell me I was just hit with laser. Wasn't the Valentines fault and no other detector would have helped either with the laser thing. If I had my CB, that may have helped though. Anyways, best of luck in your search.

FX2.3 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:57 am

I got a Whistler 1743 off ebay for 99cents and a direct wiring kit for $8..

Not a jeep, just an idea, I flip it down when I need it.

lil black liberty · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:58 am

Talk about kicking a dead dog.... lol this topic died a....long time ago!

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:30 am

lil black liberty wrote:

Talk about kicking a dead dog.... lol this topic died a....long time ago!

na... remember earlier I was talking about a war... the whole spare under the KK thing was big for a while :lol:

lil black liberty · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:54 am

lmao yeah.. I tell you, I'm personally going to get an Escort Passport but Im not sure which one yet.. I'd like to build me a PRJ... Passive Radar well you get the J I hope!

nzoliver · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:39 pm

I run a Bell 945 in mine.

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