When it comes to testing, I like to remain objective and unbiased as possible. (A HUGE HUGE thank you to everyone who’s loaning me detectors to test!!! The community at RDF is utterly amazing and I’m truly honored to have a chance to work alongside you all.
I’ve currently got a brand new retail Cobra SPX 7800BT that I’m testing thanks to BestRadarDetectors. Now that my attention is focusing back to the other options out there, I figured I’d start sharing with you guys some of my experiences while I play with a high end Cobra. This weekend it decided to commit seppuku so it’s currently in the mail heading back to home base to get repaired. The Uniden LRD950 (now DFR7) has been showing a lot of promise so I’ve been spending time running that to get a better feel of it. Sure they’re not going to give the same performance as the higher end detectors and we should expect that, but will they still ultimately save us from tickets in the majority of situations? At the end of the day, isn’t that what really matters? Heck, even with the best detector money can buy, you can STILL get owned.įor the sake of understanding more of the big picture both for myself and for others, I’ve been spending time playing with some of the more affordable radar detectors lately. Reading this, I started wondering just how good some of the less expensive detectors really are. At one point I saw a comment online about how forum members think that the only acceptable choices are the Redline or V1 and how everything else must suck. Plus, after a while, I get tired of talking about and testing the usual contenders like the Redline, V1, and Max2. That said, people keep asking about the more affordable radar detectors.
far outweigh the money you saved by going with a lower tier RD. My point of view is that while you can save $200 or whatever by going for a lower end radar detector, if you get owned because you were using a lower end RD, the costs of the ticket, lawyer fees, court costs, insurance hikes, time and headache of dealing with the ticket, etc. Personally I’m generally a fan of the higher end radar detectors. So how good are the inexpensive Cobra radar detectors? Why don’t we do a top of the line Cobra SPX 7800BT review and see what Cobra’s latest and greatest radar detector is capable of?