Radar detector

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xs1100, Aug 8, 4:29am
Escort 9500 had for 4 yrs now and Would nt be without it. I do a few is tho so can't afford too many tickets you 'll still get the odd one when they flick K A on and off
m16d, Aug 8, 5:36am
And always remember, if a cop pulls you up for speeding, get the detector off the windscreen and under the seat before he sees it.
Cops dont like people that use detectors.
desmodave, Aug 8, 4:32pm
Got a nice big smile and a wave from a cop between Reefton & Westport recently . Guess he was happy i was doing the speed limit when we passed .
nice_lady, Aug 8, 5:27pm
That assumption is about as correct as saying "all generalisations are innacurate".

Hubby does most of our driving and he sets the cruise at around 103 also - it's amazing how many people come up behind us and pass at considerable rate of Knots. When they brought in the 110Km/h limit on the Cambridge/Hamilton expressway, (waste of time on such a short piece of road but anyway), he said "Watch this space - the people who routinely pass anyone who is travelling at 100Km/h will now do the same to those travelling at 110Km/h." He's quite right. We now get passed by people blatantly doing 120 or more.
trackim, Aug 8, 5:50pm
I do reasonably big kms every day for work and have radar detector on all the time. I also swap it between diferent cars I drive. The judges on here that see a radar detector as an excuse to speed are completely wrong. Used correctly they are a great tool for safe driving. An example, for the simple minded that probably don't do many open country driving kms, is a couple of beeps gets you to check your speed. When cruising along it is near impossible to keep your speed at exactly 100kms. Most roads I drive aren't exactly 'cruise control' friendly. I know plenty of people who have had a ticket for going 110 plus and if you can guarantee me that you've never accidently gone to that speed then you're ether telling porkies or you concentrate on your speedo too much and not your driving.
I do 50000km+ a year and some of that time towing a trailer. I can not afford to lose my licence because some pedantic cop is having a bad day because I was going down hill slightly over speed.
By the way Beltronics, valentine and escort all good, but none are any good if youre going way too fast!
dajoki, Aug 8, 5:52pm
I would have thought that if a cop picked you up for speeding and you had a detector he would think it a great joke.
esky-tastic, Aug 8, 6:30pm
That’s not the cops claim - more ‘the faster you go the bigger the mess’ kinda thing.
esky-tastic, Aug 8, 6:33pm
I’d say they would think it was a bit of a giggle that the detector didn’t save them getting a ticket!
sw20, Aug 9, 3:42am
That is a really well thought out post and I value your reasoning behind it. I do about half your total mileage a year, but plenty of it is highway stuff in the South Island and can really emphasise with you on the importance of keeping your licence for your line of work. I need mine for my line of work too. If I lost it, my job would be gone and I'd be on the 40ft loser cruiser each morning somewhere else.

You can accumulate up to 100 demerits in a two year span. This is a pretty good safety net IMO. If you are driving in a way, that you keep incurring fines and demerits and you are cutting it close to the 100 points, then you need to change your behaviour behind the wheel.

Doing 110km/h down a hill because the cruise control has let you creep up, and that over zealous officer of the law decides he's having you? It's only 10 demerits. No big deal, next time just press that pedal next to the accelerator a couple of times to slow the car a little. If you keep doing it without learning the lesson, perhaps walking for three months is a lesson that needs to be learned?
flack88, Aug 9, 4:27am
Yeah when I truck driving before governed trucks were the norm it was not hard to get the demerits up,these days its having pass all the fkwits that drive you nuts braking every 10sec and cant maintain a steady speed.
loud_37, Aug 9, 4:32am
If you've set your cuise control to 103 then you are holding up traffic as your actually doing 94. I set mine to 116 and cops pass by and don't look twice.
xs1100, Sep 5, 6:33am
110k on Speedo is 106 ks on my GPS and never had a problem still like my radar detector not fool proof still get the odd ticket just part of the job.and never had a cop get angry about having a detector either. And I do about 80ks a year
mojo49, Sep 5, 7:00am
103 on the speedos of all my assorted cars is always 99-100 on my phone GPS speedo. That is the norm for any car. Cruise control really helps maintain a safe speed and I do not have to keep checking the speedo so more of my attention is focused on the road. That is great from the Johnston Hill tunnels to Hamilton but the roads north of the tunnels are largely unsuited to using cruise control and so I am selective where I use it once north of the tunnels. I reckon cruise control is a much better safety tool than a radar detector.
headcat, Sep 6, 7:27pm
You don't "watch" a radar detector .
nice_lady, Sep 6, 7:37pm
Yeh - nah not sure why you'd presume to know how my speedo is set but my speed is 100 when the speedo reads 104.
elect70, Sep 7, 12:03am
Trouble is stalker is a weak signal & by the time the detector warns you your done . what you need is a scrambler device or cover your car in graphite . Wonder if carbon fibre reflects the signal or absorbs it ?
skull, Sep 7, 1:23am
You need to fix your speedo then because the manufacturer surely didn't intend for it to be reading 16km/h low. Most modern cars with electronic speedos are within a 2 to 6 km/h under when reading 100.
mals69, Sep 7, 2:58am
Use to come up as 'Snoop' on cops radar if you had a detector, may
still be the case .
m16d, Sep 7, 4:31am
xs1100, Oct 4, 4:40am
yes comes up as something as i was pulled over 1 night and the first thing the copper said was "i know you have a radar detector" and i went "yes there it is right on the windscreen, its not illegal so theres no problem with it is there"