I hate the fact that this car obviously attracts attention.. Just recieved my second ticket since buying the car.. So when does going 10 mph over the speed limit really start getting in the way of normal living? 65 in a 55... Really, It's not excessive, but in a sports car, it must say " i am a ****** bag so therefore give me the ticket!"
Im gonna order the valentine.. any comments on this unit or others?

any one else have these probelms? i met a guy at the dealership who said he's had 18 tickets with all his porsche's... Im not a ahole on the road but this was why i sold my corvette a long time ago... I guess my Alpina B7 is invisible on the road.. this car has 500 horsepower and idles at a 100... must be the sedan look of the car...

 

love the V1 go for it !

Generally if you get stopped for 10 over they dont give you a ticket for it... do you have a clean record? maybe he was just in a bad mood !

 

my last speeding ticket was 1999... is what it is i guess... i have also seen the cops ramping up tickets like there's no tomorrow in my area... last few years you kinda knew where they were at... nowadays, i see a few cars on a daily basis no matter where i drive... speed cameras are next imo in my area.. yea cant wait for that..
10-15 mph's over is really aggravating... and No, good luck talking your way out of them nowadays... Every city is broke, and every county needs the $$$

 

I've had some good luck the last few years, gotten pulled over three times, and got warning each time. Once in my vette, and the two other times on my ducati.
Cops won't admit it, but I think they will pull over a nice looking car over the average car. Just because it jumps out at them then say a silver accord.

 

See a lawyer about talking it down to a no point pay the money ticket. All they want is the money anyway, and you really don't want the insurance company to know about these tickets.
Escort makes some pretty good detectors also. I have a V1, and would seriously consider a 9500ix, if I were to buy another. The gps function eliminates a lot of the falses, which get aggravating.

 

You live in FL....if there's one thing that I miss about living in FL were all the nice attorneys that would send me a prompt mailing after I got a speeding ticket offering their services to have it dismissed. I used their services on two or three occasions always with satisfactory results. I would say, don't sweat it and pay the attorneys. I preferred to feed the attorneys instead of feeding the state.

Also, I have a V1 and while it's still as awesome as when I first got it nearly 10 years ago, I must say that in daily driving in an urban environment, it's also become a tremendous nuisance with all the devices installed by businesses and the government that use the police radar bands that the V1 is looking out for. Also, no radar detector is worth a hill of beans when it's confronted by lidar.

I'm at the point where I'm about to pull the trigger on a Laser Interceptor setup for my car and a Passport 9500 just so that I can block out those pesky radar signals along my most commonly traveled routes. Listening to the constant alerts from the V1 is down right unpleasant and turning it off is certainly worse. I recently got busted by a cop running lidar and just as I'm sure you've heard other say......by the time the V1 alerted me, I was busted.

Just my two cents.....

 

I put a V1 in my '12 literally the week I purchased my Cayman S BE

 

I hard wired mine in the second day I had the car.

 

There are lots of good choices out there in radar detectors. The V1 is excellent, and does have some unique features. That being said, the Escort/BEL products also have some unique features. Where I live, they monitor traffic speed/flow on major highways with k-band radar. This causes random, unexpected blasts of k-band that render a radar detector useless. They don't come at the exact same place and the timing of the blasts varies depending on the time of day. It's frustrating. Escort and BEL detectors offer a feature called TSR that essentially causes the detector to ignore these signals. For this reason, I use a BEL RX-65 Driver, and I've been very happy with it for the last couple of years.

 

Retired cop here. The adage is "Nine your fine, ten your mine". If you're getting caught your detection skills are failing, not your car's attractiveness. I drive like the proverbial madman. If you know when and where to drive fast you can drive as fast as you want. If you're not paying attention to where your officer's sit/wait or watch then you'll pay the cost.

Other's were correct. Take this simple 10 over ticket to court and plea it down to a failure to ??? or other no-point violation (defective equipment is usually good). Then pay attention to where you're driving.

 

Agree. My later father-in-law was a cop and he told me often when he gave someone a speeding ticket it wasn't for speeding, per se (though the driver was going over the limit), but because the driver was driving with his head up his ***.

To the OP, I have a V1. Saved my butt many times. The few tickets I've received (the last one with the V1 off -- I forgot to turn it on (head up my ***...) and was cited for 10 over in a 70mph area) I fight everyone.

Remember though the V1 doesn't make your car invisible and in town, in heavy traffic, bad weather, I'm barely at the limit and sometimes under it.

There's a time and a place to stretch a car's leg and driving through a 30mph zone in town ain't one of those times or places.

Sincerely,

Macster.

 

Good points about paying attention. Also, a radar detector is useless if you don't know how to use it. If you're the only car on the road and you get hit with instant-on radar, you're toast.

 

With the Passport's new "Escort Live Alert Network" feature, I would say the V1 is officially obsolete.

 

great! Who is selling their obsolete V1 ?

 

I have a V1 in one car and a Passport in another. I haven't fiddled with either one too much, but I tend to prefer the Passport.

As others have noted, no detector will save you in all situations, so you do have to pay attention to risks and adjust your driving accordingly, rather than relying on the detector alone.