I found a side benefit of Tech mode: the lack of a bar graph display distracts me from the poor V995 ramp up :lol:
The poor ramp up is less obvious with only audio.
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I found a side benefit of Tech mode: the lack of a bar graph display distracts me from the poor V995 ramp up :lol:
The poor ramp up is less obvious with only audio.
It's really incredibly strange that rampup is a problem with bel's but not escorts. I've always found rampup to be real nice on my late x50. But on my new 940, every occurence of ka goes from 1-2 bars right to full. Today I had around 4 ka encounters. I was in city driving, and all alerts were only 1 bar. But looking around the streets and I always found the leo. Never went above the 1 bar though for my entire city driving though
On the STi, I notice poor audio ramp up but the bar display is fairly accurate. Of course nobody can touch the V1 for it's near perfect ramp up.
On my STI I leave only the K, Ka and Laser ON, the sound for each K alert (and where I live 100% are all falses, the Toronto Police uses MPH Ka radar units only) is very annoying, like a drunk granny, ehhh..., but honestly I got used with this issue, what else can I do, and just pretend the granny is not there at all :lol:
I keep it on Tech Mode only, like to see the K and Ka radar band used by any local police...
X band alert is the one that scares the hell out of me when it goes off, which isn't often with autoscan.
RW, you can turn K band off when in the city, but just make sure you turn it back on for the highway.
To bad, there isn't a city No X/K setting. Just X, and my x is always off. I do find that autoscan is a little better (less noise) then city mode. Been testing for the past 2 weeks.
My daily driving takes me on/off 401/400/427/403/404/QEW and our city of course so I prefer to leave K on all the time, couple of times I go to Barrie or even further north up to Huntsville or east to Trenton...Quote:
Originally Posted by Toronto-radar-chopper
DVP is full of 33.8 Ka real alerts especially when you can drive at your desired speed but that's pretty rare, Don Valley ParkINGLOT... also some 33.8 btwn Jameson and 427 also on Lakeshore, so I'm talking about 33.8 Ka Toronto Police...
Last Tuesday very early morning when I got back from Talladega, got off DVP to Eglinton to head east where I live, all over sudden by Parkway Honda got a 33.8 alert, what a hell, no such thing before AND was 4:30 in the morning, Eglinton almost empty, drove carefully and bingo... the cop in an unmarked (dark blue after overpaint job) cruiser was parked perpendicular to Eglinton in some driveway beside that highrise n/e corner with Birdmoundsey (or whatever you spell that street), those people never stop going for more cash from us, 4:30 in the morning... unbelievable...
That's why we invest so much money and time into this hobby we share. It's a constant battle, but that is the way life is.
For me it's pretty much being a REBEL, hate to know that the gov (and cops are in fact a wing of the gov) is monitoring me, they would say "no, we're monitoring the speed of your vehicle..." but I own the vehicle so you monitor my car you monitor ME so all I want is to know WHEN you do it, have nothing against YOU doing it anytime BUT I wanna know WHEN you do it... tell that to them and they all gonna look at you like public enemy #1, like you are just about to commit a terrorist attack, they (about Ontario) hate RDs and people that use them like hell, seizing RDs is way more satisfying (for them) than taking off the road an unsafe MV :twisted:Quote:
Originally Posted by Toronto-radar-chopper
The govt monitoring you..... give me a break dude......seriously.Quote:
Originally Posted by RW'07