Ka and laser at the same time with my STi!!!

**MEM-TEK** · 06-09-2008 09:46 PM

Hi everyone,

Late Sunday afternoon I headed down to visit my brother and my dad since the following day was my brother's birthday, yet we planned on going out for a grand dinner on that Sunday evening. There is a 10 mile stretch of I-75 which I have to get on during my commute from home to where my dad and brother live. I am cruising along at around 73mph (PSL of 70) when my STi starts alerting to Ka band. I tapped my brakes and slowed down, yet a SUV with Michigan plates blows by me easily doing 85 to 90. I was talking on my cell phone, so I didn't want to get further distracted with trying to put my STi in tech mode to see what Ka frequency I was detecting, but nevertheless I did pay attention to my odometer. Nearly a mile passed before I actually passed the GSP who was parked in the median with his car angled roughly 15 degrees such that his forward facing Ka gun was shooting oncoming traffic. Thus I was detecting angled and forward facing Ka band radar from nearly a mile away! I was impressed.

What was far more impressive, before I passed the GSP car, was that the GSP officer was outside of his vehicle and also shooting laser in my general direction. I had two really good laser hits with my STi due to laser scatter. Remember the SUV with MI plates? He was following a rabbit (not using a RD) who spotted the GSP car and apparently slowed down enough. The rabbit was laser target #1 and was shot from roughly 1000ft from the GSP officer. Likewise the speeding SUV with MI plates managed to slow down just enough before being hit as laser target #2. He too was roughly 1000ft from the GSP officer. I was around 1000 feet behind the SUV with MI plates when the MI car was shot with laser. Yet I had these two really nice laser alerts on my STi due to laser scatter from those two vehicles ahead of me.

After passing the GSP car, my STi continuously detected his forward facing Ka radar (angled roughly 15 degrees across the road for oncoming traffic) for another 2 miles. My STi then intermittently detected the GSP's Ka gun for another 1/2 mile further after that.

Well, there is (so far) my one and only dual radar and laser encounter which I have detected with any of my radar detectors. I thought that this might be an interesting experience to share with everyone -- especially for those who say that the STi sucks at detecting laser.

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**LordV** · 06-09-2008 09:57 PM

Wow, nice encounter Mem-tek. Ive never had anything but excellent lidar detection with my v995. Including several scatter detections.

Can't speak of the V1 yet, but I know for a fact that there is nothing lacking with Bel products on lidar.

**QuickCummins** · 06-09-2008 10:08 PM

some say they pee themselves a little when they get laser on there STi , did you? lol

**YTCD** · 06-10-2008 12:02 AM

Nice, I wondered that. I knew you could get multible radar readings but to get laser and radar I wasn't sure. But thats pretty cool

**MEM-TEK** · 06-10-2008 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by quickcummins

some say they pee themselves a little when they get laser on there STi , did you? lol

I just about did the first time I got a laser hit with my STi back last fall while driving around I-285 in Atlanta. The alert scared the daylights out of me. Fortunately it was the car in the fast lane to my left which was targeted. Range probably was around 800 feet.

**Victor** · 06-10-2008 03:56 AM

Originally Posted by quickcummins

some say they pee themselves a little when they get laser on there STi...

I almost did...it was a false alert, though. I thought that my STi was going through the power-up sequence (as LASER is the first thing to be tested)!!!

**hockey005** · 06-10-2008 11:15 AM

good save! the first alert i ever got with my STi was laser scatterin NH! it actually was very impressive because i never saw the cop til i went past him

**Kayrac** · 06-10-2008 03:20 PM

Makes me want to make a move and buy a sti for my girls car, but i still wonder if she'll just freak out everytime it goes off :P

but nice save overall, i had a similarish save a while back, probably my most spectacular, forward facing ka, about a mile give or take, and the guy was shooting laser :P(was with my old v1 tho)

**hockey005** · 06-10-2008 05:24 PM

haha ur girl will be invincible to all police RDD's as well

...my ex got lasered doin 89 in a 45 and now cant drive til the end of oct.

**sti'er** · 06-13-2008 09:45 AM

In the great city of Toronto, the local police rather enjoy using their fancy Ka and Lidar. I have had more then one encounter with police cars emitting constant Ka while at the same time, shooting laser from outside their vehicles. It makes me chuckle everytime.

I too have found the Sti great at laser detection, and if you saw where my RD was mounted you would be even more impressed.