STi 4ever

[La Morandière]

I just got my brand new STi Driver. It's an awesome unit. Compared to my previous Cobra RD, I get far far more range.

I does sound like your locals are using I/O(instant-on). My concern however would be that it's not out of the realm of possibility that your very late detections were because the Cobras are so poor at detectiDg certain frequencies of Ka band radar, namely 35.5Ka and to a lesser degree, 33.8Ka.

You are absolutely right. I set my STi in tech mode and had that same usual Ka (35.5 - now I know) alert. The cobra made me believe that LEOs were using I/O, but as you thought it is C/O that I can now detect thousands of feet ahead.

Cheers for Beltronics!

[v1user]

Pretend you never had a cobra because that doesn't even count as a RD.
Going from a cobra to an STi is a big step in improvement.

[FoolishOne]

Tell everyone you know Cobra's are crap!

[djrams80]

I just got my brand new STi Driver. It's an awesome unit. Compared to my previous Cobra RD, I get far far more range.

I does sound like your locals are using I/O(instant-on). My concern however would be that it's not out of the realm of possibility that your very late detections were because the Cobras are so poor at detectiDg certain frequencies of Ka band radar, namely 35.5Ka and to a lesser degree, 33.8Ka.

You are absolutely right. I set my STi in tech mode and had that same usual Ka (35.5 - now I know) alert. The cobra made me believe that LEOs were using I/O, but as you thought it is C/O that I can now detect thousands of feet ahead.

Cheers for Beltronics!

Excellent to hear! Yes, the Bel STi is a top-notch RD. The performance difference between an STi and a Cobra are night and day, exactly as you have noticed.

[David_S4]

Throw the Cobra in the garbage! My grandfather had a Cobra a few years ago that got confiscated, I usually saw the LEO before it gave him an alert... Long live the STI

[-=stealth=-]

Pretend you never had a cobra because that doesn't even count as a RD.
Going from a cobra to an STi is a big step in improvement.

Understatement of the year.

Cobras do more harm than good.
With a Cobra, you think you're being protected, so you speed and when the thing goes off you can turn your head to your side and look into the LEO's eyes.

The STi is argueably within the top 10 RDs out there from my research.
With windshield mounts, the V1 seems to compete well, and the only thing it clearly outperforms the STi in is laser detection.
Then you have the 9500ix, a decent windshield mount, but not undetectable by the RDDs.

I've been considering selling my STi to upgrade to the STi-R, only for more stealth.
I'm just so happy with the STi's performance though, I don't think an upgrade is necessary.

[-=stealth=-]

Scratch that.
top 5
-argueably-

[FoolishOne]

Scratch that.
top 5
-argueably-

I was going to say, "10 is an awfully big number."

Even if we throw in the 2 remotes and a V1, it's 4th.

[La Morandière]

Throw the Cobra in the garbage! Long live the STI

I thought I could sell my cobra to some kind of a newbie like I am (or "was" since I got my STi), but reading about the J-Out harassing drivers in the US, I decided to simply give it a more decent end!

[FoolishOne]

Drive over it with one of these?