escort quality control?

**Mackid343** · 04-02-2006, 10:59 PM

whats quality control like at escort, especially on the x50's? i'm going to be buying one to sell to a friend after a week or two of testing. are most of them stellar? how can i tell if i got a not so good one?

thanks
Ted

**nvr2fast** · 04-02-2006, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by Mackid343

whats quality control like at escort, especially on the x50's? i'm going to be buying one to sell to a friend after a week or two of testing. are most of them stellar? how can i tell if i got a not so good one?

thanks
Ted

The Escort X50 seems to have better QC than the Bel RX65, for whatever reason. I am on my 4th RX65, but the same X50 as I bought over a year ago. The Bel keeps giving SELFCAL4 and SERVICE REQUIRED.

I thought the Escorts and Bels were made on the same production line, so I suspect that it is a software difference, but I coudl be wrong.

**g_jammer** · 04-03-2006, 09:29 PM

The X50 is Escorts flagship detector, your probably not going to encounter a 'lemon' due to poor QC, their reputation would go down the drain IMO.

I've never had any quality issues with Escorts products, I've owned and own many.

**Mackid343** · 04-03-2006, 10:05 PM

as of now, its working perfectly and picking a few things up a bit farther than my bel v995, which i expected

**Rottman** · 04-04-2006, 04:00 PM

Outside of the V1, I think the X50 is top notch.

**f_399** · 04-04-2006, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by davekr

Outside of the V1, I think the X50 is top notch.

ditto!

**Mackid343** · 04-04-2006, 04:14 PM

i couldnt say for sure since i've never tried a v1 yet, but i'm thinking your right!

it seems just a bit more sensitive than my 995, which i expected, but nothing drastically better (havnt got any ka yet). i dont like some of the ergonomical details of it compared to my bel v995 and the tones dont nearly scare me enough to slow down...i do have it on LOUD too. i'm sure if i used it more, i'd get more used to it. i like the slanted display and the threat display a LOT. however, i'm not wild on the volume control, because theres no way for you to know how loud it is until you get an alert more or less. also, i wish there was a power button rather than changing the volume down to turn it off (i know unplugging it is easier tho). other than that, i think its a great detector. i'm yet to hit any cops yet tho

dave - did you have an x50 before? all i know is you had an rx65 from ebay that was crap and now have a v1

**n1tr08urner** · 04-04-2006, 09:54 PM

It's pretty great actually, I got mine off ebay so I was a bit worried since a lot of people seem to advice against that (for whatever reasons...) but I had it for 3 months now and I couldn't leave the house without it. If anything it actually makes u a bit overconfident. In town it can get a bit noisy but on the highway it's a beast, y would u travel without one.
Plus, it looks way cool

**Rottman** · 04-05-2006, 08:35 AM

No kid, I didn't. I have messed around with them at Tweeter a high end stereo shop near Chicago. I have always been impressed with Escort products though. I wanted the one with a blue display but for the money I decided to get a returned V1.

**LS1-Camaro** · 04-06-2006, 07:19 PM

QC has nothing to do with how a particular detector works, but rather how EACH DETECTOR that leaves the factory performs compared to a Gold standard detector that works as it was designed to. I would have to say that there is a lot of varriability from unit to unit, so their QC really is sub par.