n00b (sort of)

**djrams80** · 08-13-2009, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by VTAK

Yeah, I've heard the ZR3 doesn't do very well with close range shots. I wouldn't really expect the ZR4 to be much better.

They are basically the same thing, except that the ZR4s detect Laser Atlanta stealth mode, while the ZR3s do not. Performance-wise, they are identical. Neither protects the rear hardly at all. I found that out the hard way.

snoopyc4 · 08-13-2009, 07:36 PM

Welcome to the forum. There a ton of Houston area forum members here.

**VTAK** · 08-13-2009, 11:48 PM

I got my V1 hardwired today and I went with a 2 amp fuse. I also had my first save today. I was on my way to work and i decided to cut through a neighborhood since there was a light out at a busy intersection. I'm doing 40 in a 30 and I get about four or five bars of Ka up ahead so I jam on the brakes as he comes out from behind a bush. I was behind him for about a block before he turned onto another street. I go a few streets over and I get Ka again as I see him enter the road in front of me. Again, he turns off and I thought I wouldn't see him again. I drive about three more miles and I'm stopped at an intersection as I get a Ka warning from behind. It then moves between the front and side arrows and no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find the bogey. It settles out on the side arrows so I look to my right and see he's at the gas station on the corner. I don't know why anyone would buy a radar detector that doesn't have arrows.

snoopyc4 · 08-13-2009, 11:56 PM

Originally Posted by VTAK

I got my V1 hardwired today and I went with a 2 amp fuse. I also had my first save today. I was on my way to work and i decided to cut through a neighborhood since there was a light out at a busy intersection. I'm doing 40 in a 30 and I get about four or five bars of Ka up ahead so I jam on the brakes as he comes out from behind a bush. I was behind him for about a block before he turned onto another street. I go a few streets over and I get Ka again as I see him enter the road in front of me. Again, he turns off and I thought I wouldn't see him again. I drive about three more miles and I'm stopped at an intersection as I get a Ka warning from behind. It then moves between the front and side arrows and no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find the bogey. It settles out on the side arrows so I look to my right and see he's at the gas station on the corner. I don't know why anyone would buy a radar detector that doesn't have arrows.

Awesome! Keep up the good work. Since you are based in Houston, feel free to add your encounters with LEOs here: http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...ng-thread.html