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• 1 Akers

  Great product for the price. It gives me enough notice to be able to check my speed and slow down if I need to(considering the terrain). I leave my detector on the “autoscan” mode. This does cause it to alert around automatic doors. I would recommend to anyone looking for a good, less expensive radar detector.

• 2 Hawes

  This radar detector does seem to work well, but sometimes your safe response time can be really short. Whenever it alerts, slow down immediately. I got cocky and took about 2.5 seconds to gradually slow down, and I got a ticket. So, always slam on the brakes immediately whenever there’s an alert.

• 3 Rueda

  Great sensitivity and very good features especially auto-mute. For the money($150) it’s definitely worth it.

• 4 Drake

  This item does exactly what it claims to do. It detects all bands with warning time. It has been very useful to me only after a short while. Super Item!

• 5 Lawless

  The detector never stopped alerting me. It was constantly going off and there were never any radars in sight. All of sudden it died and never went off anymore. That was after only about 6 weeks. I returned it for full refund. Need I say more. The product I received must have been faulty.

• 6 Kane

  I now have owned this radar detector for a little over a month and it has already saved me a few times. I bought the hard wire kit so it comes on automatically when I start the car. Well worth the extra money. There have been no false alarms and it does not go off when you pass commercial property alarms. So when it does go off you know that it is real! I would highly recommend over paying $500 for the Escort. Good value for the money.

• 7 VanDeKamp

  The RX-65 Pro has pulled my fat out of the fire more than 10 confirmed times in the last 4.5 years. (RX-65 spotted the cops hiding in bushes, around corners etc. Because of the early alerts, I was able to make discreet speed adjustments and let my neighbors take the hit .

  I was considering the Valentine 1 because my friend had one, and frankly it looks cool. Also it does out perform Bel on the close range laser bands, somewhat “better”; but as I have said before, I’m not sure it’s $200.00 better.

  My Bel RX65 still out performed my friends Valentine 1 in the radar bands. (Even he was surprised!)

  I have owned Bel equipment since 1982. I bought one of their very first detectors at a swap-meet for $100.00, (should have known better), that looked like a small-round coffee can. I think it only supported X-Band. I was not happy with its performance at all.

  Bel let me upgrade to the (then) new slim-style detector FREE! X & K band supported.

  In 2005 I purchased my RX-65 Pro online (not Amazon, sorry), and the guy made it CLEAR Bel would NOT cover the 1 year, but he would.

  With the only exception of an indiscriminate occasional “power-reset” problem it has been 100% reliable and flawless!

  Well worth the money. You may wish to consider the RX-65 Blue or the STi? Steath versions if you have the green-backs to blow.

  Take care.

• 8 Fanning

  Very good detector, senses K band 1/2 -3/4 mile away. At first it false detected KA quite a bit but found out the setting in the programs was for International instead of USA. Easy to change. Went by a laser the other day did not detect although he was pointing at another vehicle.

  Good controls for adjusting volume, display, brighteness. Highly recommend to others and very good value from Amazon.

• 9 Quentin

  Up until this point this is the only radar detector I’ve owned, and it is a good product in most respects. I’d gotten speeding tickets frequently (at least one a year) prior to owning one, and in almost two years of driving with it, I’ve only gotten one ticket (which was not for speeding). However, recently I placed (not dropped) it into a bag with some other items while cleaning my car, and when I took it out, it had cracked along the side, after which it did not work at all. So while this is a good detector and it did save me some tickets, I would expect any product that costs over $300 to remain more durable for multiple years.

  Pros:
  Good Range – Finds cops frequently, especially in the Chicago suburbs where they are always trolling for tickets. Even on the less sensitive settings, I’ve always had plenty of time to slow down (although it should be noted I rarely drive more than 20 mph over the limit). This device has not only reduced my # of tickets, but has also made me a safer driver (as I am more aware of my speed and generally more alert).

  User-friendly – The main setup and settings are very easy to use; I scanned the manual briefly but probably wouldn’t have had to. There are some pretty high levels of customization available as well – for example, you can adjust the sensitivity to different types of radar individually – however, I personally didn’t mess with these, so I can’t speak to them. While the beeping is a little annoying until you get used to it, you can adjust the volume and mute it fairly easily.

  Cons:
  Price – This unit will be a budget-buster for a lot of people, after mine broke I couldn’t even consider dropping $300 on a replacement unit. While I haven’t owned other radar detectors, I doubt that the features on this one make it worth paying six times as much as a lower-end detector.

  False Positives – Seemed to be a fairly regular occurrence with this one even in City mode. For that matter, there didn’t seem to be much difference in sensitivity between city, normal, and highway mode, although as mentioned these can be adjusted manually. There’s an extent to which the range may be a little too good; I think it would sometimes find radar on nearby streets that I didn’t really need to know about.

  Durability/Reliability – This is the biggest, and probably only serious, issue I have with this one. Part of this is a personal preference thing, but this isn’t priced like a $35 piece of junk; and I’d expect it to be able to handle a little abuse. Instead it broke after a couple years of what I’d consider fairly normal use and storage.

  My overall recommendation would be that this is a good unit if you are looking at a high-end radar detector, however, be prepared to either be really careful with it or replace it in a few years. Buying the warranty and/or repair plan (which I did not do) is strongly advised.

• 10 Chadwick

  Very good product, just arrived, plugged in, went for a drive. Detected Sheriff from arround half a mile, pretty good considering it was an urban street. Like the way tones sound, dont like the fact that it falses a lot more than i expected. Will edit and add more experiences with it. Would recommend buying it

• 11 Agustin

  This radar detector is high performing for a nice price. If you are one of the drivers who wants to be more aware of their surroundings and maybe wants to speed a bit, but doesnt want to pay that much, this is the detector for you.

  Pros
  - Long Range
  - Nice Display (blue or red)
  - Small
  - Great Mounting Suction Cups
  - Very efficient filtering system when using autoscan

  Cons
  - Not as good as the valentine one?

• 12 Judd

  I was amazed with the fast shipping they have, the device is greate, however I am not really sure if it is true that most of the police cars on the road are not using their Radars, or that my device does not detect them..

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