just wondering if anyone has used the passport 8500?
how is it, what does it conpare to?

 

I have the x50 red... doesn't compare too well with the V1 but it does throw less non-police warnings so its nice. Though i'm having problems with mines and i sent it into escort, they fixed it and returned it in 3 weeks for some reason. But everyonce in a while i'm getting all 3 bands at full when i'm just driving through residential areas...

 

that could be cause of car alarm systems, or other frequencies in the area
do you find it works well? has it saved your **** from a ticket?

 

spend the extra money and get a valentine

 

valentine is ****, i thought.
escort and bel are the best in their group ?
i'd be getting this from a guy whose selling it for 220 Canadian

 

lol...i promise you that that guy is the only person that will say valentine is s**t. if someone else does i would be really suprised

http://www.valentine1.com/lab/detectortests.asp

 

i know it works personally...i know someone........ who has made it from salt lake city to san diego in about 9.5 hrs...and from san diego to phoenix in under 4 hours...and it successfully warned that person everytime there was a cop waiting to bust me...

 

They work pretty well. I’ve been saved a couple of times from a ticket. I’ll sell you mine if you are interested.

 

oh course they will say say that. it's their website!

 

My escort just says service required on the screen when i plug it up. I heard its not calibrating.... Is this what yours did?
How much did it cost you to send it back?
(i bought mine used off of ebay)

 

My 8500 is phenomenal never got a ticket yet, unless they do an instant on radar your screwed either way. V1 I think is worth the extra money thou, ive heard nothing but good things.

 

+1 on the passport 8500 x50

it save's my a$$ a lot of times now. i bought it less than 1 week after i got my car and i'm loving it.

 

i have it ,and i love it

 

Beltronics RX65 Pro hardwired, same as the 8500 X50, but a few extra bells.
i estimate its saved me well over $1000 at this point.

 

Your's is just out of calibration, mine was just wiggin' out and throwing false alerts all over the place. It still does it everyonce in a while, but i just restart it and its normally fine. Since mine wasn't warranty, and yours was ebay it'll cost 60$ to send it in, pay up front first. But legit they update the software, and recalibrate it no matter how perfect it is. So i mean it can't hurt to send it in.. just costs a lot. But i bought mines for 190$ used for 3 months so yea..



And yes its saved me from a couple tickets, but it also got me a ticket cause i had the hardwired system installed and no radar since it was at escort being fixed. I got pulled over for illegal tints, and he gave me a 250$ ticket for it. I managed to pull strings to get it waived, but the officer (sargent) called me up on my cell somehow and explained to me that radar detectors, though being legal, are discouraged. Cops think of it as another way to cheat them, which is true. I just need to rewire my hardwire and i need to find a new place to mount my radar, maybe take it apart and integrate it somehow? Who knows..