thats interesting barry, in another thread i created people were saying that the grill in front of the detector greatly reduces the range?
thats interesting barry, in another thread i created people were saying that the grill in front of the detector greatly reduces the range?
You might want to watch this vid from the Veil Guy. Start around 4:25 and he starts talking about where he has his Remote 9500CI mounted.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysdlDVHGVwo]YouTube - Speed Trap Hunter Visits ESCORT, Discusses Escort Passport 9500ci[/ame]
I detector with a clear view of the road will always perform far better then one behind a bumper. But behind a grill when only parts of the antenna are covered will give crap performance. But behind a bumper with the antenna fully covered it will out perform an antenna partially covered.
So it has to be either fully uncovered or fully covered.
There is a good thread somewhere about the do's and don'ts of mounting behind bumpers. Types of plastics and curvature of the plastic and so on.
Yeah and the performance of The Veil Guy's 9500ci is drastically reduced because of where it is mounted. Check out the videos in this Whistler SE review. If a Whistler can hang with your Belscort M3 remote against C/O radar, something is seriously wrong with your Belscort M3 remote.
Whistler Pro-78SE, Whistler XTR-695SE/XTR-690SE Review
Mounting a radar antenna behind any obstruction is not recommended, because you never know what you're gonna get. Against the very difficult to detect Multanova, you need all the sensitivity you can get, so I highly discourage attempting it. But if you insist, our friend Metalflame, who I personally consider to be the utmost expert on obstructed mounting, had this to say about it:
http://www.radardetector.net/forums/beltronics/51791-sti-r-behind-bumper-cover.html#post632600
if your going to buy one of the most sensitive RDs in the world, wouldn't you want it to have a clear view of the road? ****, if someone told me they were going to mount their Ci or sti-r behind a bumper I'd tell them to just go buy a refurbished 8500.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure about the laws where your from but in most parts of Australia if your caught with a detector its a instant loss of licence, a court appearence and a few thousand dollars in fines and a about -40 demerit points which would mean you could have no licence for years.
I'm not sure about the laws where your from but in most parts of Australia if your caught with a detector its a instant loss of licence, a court appearence and a few thousand dollars in fines and a about -40 demerit points which would mean you could have no licence for years.[/QUOTE]
I'm from VA, so being caught with an RD means a fine, but cops don't look for them in the grill/bumper, they look in the windshield. Now if you've got smarter cops where you are, then thats a different story.
The grill on my car is plastic and with holes. I think a metal one would be far worse. what are your thoughts on mounting the STI with either behind the bumper or behind that grill (lower grill and vertical for multanova? I spoke to a guy at a radar detector shop today and he rekcons not much difference.. Its a hard choice!!!
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