Laser & Radar Detector

[MyMilkshake...]

Best one for the UK?

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[SteveS]

Do they work with Gatsos and camera vans?

 

[Lone Survivor]

A light right foot

 

[Lone Survivor]

Do they work with Gatsos and camera vans?

GATSO's fixed position cameras will be on the sat nav, along with an audible warning. By the time your radar beeps you'll have been caught with a mobile camera, especially these pesky bridge mounted ones.

It's also illegal to use a jammer type, you'll get double done!! In Europe, well France, your car will be crushed!

 

[SteveS]

GATSO's fixed position cameras will be on the sat nav, along with an audible warning. By the time your radar beeps you'll have been caught with a mobile camera, especially these pesky bridge mounted ones.

It's also illegal to use a jammer type, you'll get double done!! In Europe, well France, your car will be crushed!

That's kinda what I thought. I plan to carefully manage my enthusiastic driving...

 

[MyMilkshake...]

No you won't be caught...
The whole idea is they warn you before your targeted do you understand how they work?! Some can detect up to 2 miles on a motorway, it gets difficult when faced with hills or tight bends that's were you see the quality of the product

 

[Lone Survivor]

You obviously know better, why ask what's the best? I don't know of any that will give you some sort of ECM bubble.

Just drive sensibly for the conditions, it would take some magic dead eyed dick of a cop to target you from two miles away.

Bare in mind, as you pass a camera, which most are set up for when you pass, any detector is useless, they will detect you from behind?!?

Can't wait to see the results

You will get caught, sooner or later.

 

[SteveS]

No you won't be caught...
The whole idea is they warn you before your targeted do you understand how they work?!

Tbh, not really. As boring as it may sound I tend to stick relatively close to the speed limits, generally less than 10 over a speed limit on a main route and in town I'll be closer to 20 than 30. I'm in my 40s and not a kid any more.
Don't get me wrong, I still intend to drive the car but roads are roads, not race tracks.

 

[MyMilkshake...]

They pick up the laser fragmentation... Bouncing off surfaces that's the whole idea they don't only inform you when your targeted that would be stupid they inform you of what's to come up ahead on the road...

Since when did I say I was using the road as a race track, you clearly have a chip on your shoulder as a motorist, I don't see what's wrong about trying to reduce the chances of an unneeded fine or points, but then again I would assume you have always had a clean record and 0 points...

I am asking for opinion upon which are the best on the market, just because I know how they work doesn't mean I know which is best...

 

[SteveS]

Nah, I've had a couple of tickets and I wasn't a particularly careful driver when younger. Ironically the tickets both came in the last 10 years. No chip on my shoulder but I am a biker and a father.
And I didn't say you were using the road as a race track. I merely indicated that I wasnt.

 

[Big_G]

Tbh, not really. As boring as it may sound I tend to stick relatively close to the speed limits, generally less than 10 over a speed limit on a main route and in town I'll be closer to 20 than 30. I'm in my 40s and not a kid any more.
Don't get me wrong, I still intend to drive the car but roads are roads, not race tracks.

Nail on head there, I need my license for my job so I'm extremely careful. If be interested to know if the mustang has a speed limiter option, my S60 had one (wifes Captur does too). I used it all the time, really useful.
Stick around the limits and there's no need for a radar detecter

 

[Lone Survivor]

You might know how they work, here's how the internet works :lol:

http://www.radar-detector-shop.co.uk/questions.php

I haven't got any points

 

[MyMilkshake...]

Nail on head there, I need my license for my job so I'm extremely careful. If be interested to know if the mustang has a speed limiter option, my S60 had one (wifes Captur does too). I used it all the time, really useful.
Stick around the limits and there's no need for a radar detecter

I totally agree! However I have heard that the RHD models we will be getting won't have it, that's why I ended up here, perhaps someone who has seen the cars may be able to let us know, or if anyone's planning on going up to Edinburgh?

 

[SteveS]

I suspect that the speed limiter may have been part of ACC which we're not getting but despite being sat in the car in Edinburgh this is another thing I didn't notice.
Got blindsided by the sheer awesomeness of the car :doh:

 

[Glenn G]

You know It's funny that I have been ticketed mostly not when I'm driving like a mad man, which I do on occasion, and have a keen eye for bridges or vans parked by the side of the road, but rather when I'm taking a leisurely drive somewhere I've never been and suddenly the speed drops and there is a camera hidden in the hedge somewhere 100 meters after a sign I missed. This is a super common type of trap in Germany. most times I was less than 20kph over the limit so no points and a 35 euro fine but I still find it unfair and annoying. So a 'friend' got a radar detector and it has saved 'him' a few times in these situations. Got dinged by a laser once. at 30 over the limit which would have been points and a fine in the triple digits. got enough warning to hit the brakes and only got done for 10 over. (15 euro).

Bit off topic but....
Just in-case any of you come to Germany another favorite trick that costed me my licence is where you will have a perfect stretch of unlimited autobahn and for some mysterious reason a "Strassen Schaden" or street damaged sign will appear, lowering the speed limit on a stretch to 100 kph (62mph) A few days later the cameras will appear. They will start at the beginning of the section, and migrate to within spitting distance of the Unlimited sign at the end after about a week. After a total of about 3-4 weeks the signs will have disappeared because somehow, without any roadwork being done, the streets will have miraculously repaired themselves.

Also if you are in an accident here, driving while foreign is an offence. Regardless of what the officer tells you on the scene, you will get the blame later, especially if you don't reside in the country, Get everything in writing and lawyer up if it really wasn't your fault. I've even heard dash cams clearly showing fault are over ruled by the heinous act of being in a German's way. /rant

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