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Originally Posted by Abe Froman
Nope, the X50 only has 3 case screws, none hidden under the Serial # label. So you or anyone can remove the case screws, open the unit and there's no way to tell that.
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Originally Posted by Abe Froman
Nope, the X50 only has 3 case screws, none hidden under the Serial # label. So you or anyone can remove the case screws, open the unit and there's no way to tell that.
Abe, I'd be ticked off getting an answer like that. I'd return that puppy for a check up if it's no longer returnable to the vendor. I *love* my Escort gear but I've never had a problem that required customer service and it sounds like you received customer disservice.
:shock: 3 weeks :shock: I'd take it back, send it back to the vendor, the place where you bought it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abe Froman
The first incident kinnda reminds me a K band drone on the interstate.
The second sounds like a speed sign somewhere in the area, but then again, you would have probably seen it by now.
Send it in, maybe you got a bad one.
Yeah, I can't take it back because I'm beyond the 14 day return deadline for Best Buy. Sonofa. This WOULD happen right before the trip.
Well, I'll just have to suck it up and hope it works and then mail it back in when I get to Texas.
Anyone know what frequency pop displays? Would it be a K frequency that would cause this to happen? Because, it only does it on K.
I'll try turning POP off and see if I have the same problem. As long as it doesn't interfere with pulling down the real signals, I can live with it for another week.
Well Belscort is similar...and on my RX65 I get the same type of falses when running POP on. Turned it off about a year ago and never turned it on since. POP detection is a pretty much a useless feature anyway. Turn it off and see what you get
I used to run POP and I never had that issue. Something is wrong with your detector. If it is covered under warranty, send it in.
If you don't really need POP, then just shut it off anyways.
Well, I turned it off on the way home. Have about a 40 minute commute and it didn't repeat the performance of the problem, but, that doesn't mean anything yet. I'll give it another day or so and see what happens.
Also, it did pick up some KA over a wall from the other side of the freeway so I guess it's still working as well as I need it to.
Some information for you guys out there that I discovered---Best Buy will not offer any sort of replacement plans on the Escort Passports. At least, that's what they told me when I called the store. YOu can bring it back within 14 days but that's it. Nothing you can buy to augment your warranty. So, I tried.
I called Escort back and got another lady (let me say, their customer service don't really seem to know much about the product...try to trouble shoot and they just tell you to send it in). She said she didn't know what it may be and cited that maybe because I have it plugged in to a double cig plug and/or my satellite radio may be setting it off. That doesn't explain why I didn't have the problem for the first three weeks I had it.
Maybe there is some connection between POP being on and the satellite radio antenna?? I have my antenna for for the sat installed right where the windshield A frame meets the window because I was too poor to install it on the back windshield when I got it many years ago. Hmmm...
I have a theory that almost every big company out there, Sprint, Cingular, Dell, HP, now even Escort, uses one big company to handle all their incoming customer service calls. All they do is answer the phone differently based on what number you dialed. Seems I get the same know nothing idiots with any customer service number I dial. It's to the point that you will get nowhere until you get to at least their third tier of support. Then you MIGHT get someone who isn't just reading you answers based on whatever is on their computer screen at the moment.
You should have the one year warrenty from Escort since you bought it from an authorized dealer (Best Buy). Call Escort.