Rear Laser Protection: How Effective can it be?

[Ovencleaner]

Topic says it all. The rear of a vehicle usually has more hard points. Has anyone done any testing on rear laser?

[bunny]

I def would like to see rear protection!

[corkguykev]

i did recently because i found that rear laser was a threat in my area that was too big to ignore :x

i put one LPP head on my rear and the other stayed up front.

i always get JTG on the front of my ford focus with the single head and during static tests with the marksman (car parked with jammer on, much harder trial of a jammer) that i could only get PT on the edge of the headlights @ distances as low as 80 feet

the rear is harder to protect though. i tried the same test with the same gun and fount that i was getting PT even @ 200 feet away but when the car is moving its only a few seconds @30mph before i cant possibly get PT and at 500 feet (the furthest end of my nearby test course) its not going to happen at all.

my car is silver, has a big rear area and is very clean so its a hard job for one head to cover it in fairness but its unlikely that i will be hit from behind at less than 500 feet or more from an on-ramp here (which ive seen them do) so i do believe im well covered

i must do further tests to see if the downward angles and off-axis shots would cause PT easier though to be very sure :wink:

[Rottman]

Any pics Cork? Thanks for the info.....

[corkguykev]

http://www.radardetector.net/viewtop...=367195#367195 for pics of my install.

[lacning74]

Any pics Cork? Thanks for the info.....

Dude, you saw them already.

Very nice Cork..... 8)

http://www.radardetector.net/viewtopic.php?t=34220

[TSi+WRX]

Is it possible? Certainly.

But as with anything else, it depends a lot on the specifics of the vehicle.

Look at brother charles charlie charles's late-model M-Class.

In his own words, with an excess of LPP heads (3), his rear profile was just helpless. And yes, he did perform first-hand police-LIDAR testing to confirm this.

Certainly, the smaller vehicles, as well as vehicles with lesser rear hardpoints ( or rear hardpoints significantly altered/modofied - look to member fulcrum for how extreme it can be take to, even on a vehicle which already has a very, very favorable LIDAR profile :arrow: http://www.radardetector.net/viewtop...ight=reflector ), yes, even a single head of today's top-flight laser-diode jammers can do well, but still, PTs are possible, particularly at lower distances (like corkguykev cited, though, the rate-of-escape would make this potential pitfall an unlikely scenario) as well as the occasional/lucky "pan to the extremes of the tail-light" at longer distances (which can possibly put the even rather enlarged outgoing laser beam just off the receptive capability of the central jammer head).

A dual setup would be more ideal - but on larger vehicles or vehicles with significantly worse hardpoints.....I still remain very, very pessimistic.

Extreme measures are needed, IMveryHO.