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Yes, the Valentine One is still a good radar detector. And technology with it has advanced. IIRC they used to offer a guarantee against tickets. If you sent them your ticket and could prove you were using the Valentine One detector at the time, they would pay the fine. I mean, you'd still have a ticket in your record, but wouldn't be out the money for the fine.
Like you said, matter of perspective. To me, it's just easier to set the cruise at 5 over and drive. No worrying about getting a ticket, if I need thet extra 20-30 minutes at my destination, I just leave that much earlier. As far as relying on the detector. One of the last speeding tickets I actually got, I was using one of the better radar detectors on the market at the time. Problem is, I was only car on that stretch of road. So when he flipped on his radar, once I got close enough, all the radar detector did was let me know I got caught. I didn't even wait for him to flip on his lights, I just pulled over and waited.
Yes, Valentine, Uniden, and Escort make the best out right now hands down.
Lol I get it I’m just saying that the response times in picking them up much further out than they can clock you are a lot better than they use to be here is an image to give you perspective in response times. I run the R8 0.43, 0.33, 0.27 seconds is how fast this thing picks it up so if you are 3-4 miles out from when you pick up a low single there is no reason you should get a ticket. But we can go back and forth on this all day so just for sakes of getting back on topic of “What we did to our Ram today” we can stop talking about Radar Detectors unless we want to make another thread.
we can stop talking about Radar Detectors unless we want to make another thread.
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need to figure something out. May just slit the grommet and move the wires to the middle with the shaft. Can't believe there's no better route for a factory accessory.
I have no issues with my MPG this isn’t the fast and the furious.
That just means they did a poor job on the installation. They should have pulled the wires through the grommet itself. Good thing you noticed it though, now you could fix before you have short.Installed my Pedal Monster. Didn't have time to go for a drive though.
While I was under there, I noticed that when the dealer installed my power steps, they just popped off the steering shaft grommet, ran the wires, and left the grommet. Wires are fine, but have been riding against the edge of the sheet metal for about a year now.
Agreed, but it doesn't look like there's room to pull the plugs through the grommet.
That's what I did when I installed my Amp steps. Just poked a hole half-way across the grommet and ran the wires through.Installed my Pedal Monster. Didn't have time to go for a drive though.
While I was under there, I noticed that when the dealer installed my power steps, they just popped off the steering shaft grommet, ran the wires, and left the grommet. Wires are fine, but have been riding against the edge of the sheet metal for about a year now.
They make pin removal tools. You remove the plastic connector, run wires through, and reinstall.
Valentine One V1G2 or Uniden R8 are the best out right now hands down.
Yes, that is an option I may consider, but again, this is a factory accessory. Seems they'd come up with a better way.
If anything I’m about 10-15 max over speed limit. Any more and it gets expensive both fuel and ticket wise if for some reason I was caught.
Lol, I had one and I know what you mean I hate the way it faces in the OBD port. If you try Sport mode it’s pretty wild and Track mode is just ridiculous.
