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I live in an area of 4 seasons. We get all types of weather. Heavy snow, heavy thunderstorms, heat waves, extreme cold, etc.. Are laser jammers designed to withstand these types of extremes? It might be a dumb question, but I don't want to put multiple hundreds of dollars down on something that would break in harsh winter conditions.
All jammer heads would suffer from weathering, but it all depends on how good the jammer heads are built,this is why warranty is important.
I have had LI for the past year and 1 month on an evo and a set of LI for the past 9 months on a civic and the heads are both fine...I have gone through every type of weather and temperature with them and they have been fine...also u get a 2 year warranty...Blinders also have a very good reliability record
Good, because I plan on getting a Blinder :)Quote:
Originally Posted by hockey005
The upstate NY members of this forum know what I'm talking about
This is good to hear. Although I plan to take mine off during the winter. I don't trust WI's super concentrated corossive salt. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by hockey005
So far no problems with my LI's during the midwest summer rainstorms. :)
i mean i try to avoid driving them in 15 degree weather and snow storms with the salt on the road but just make sure u clean the heads very so often
Oh yeah, salt. In the winter months, roads around here are bathed in loads of salt. That can't be good for jammer heads.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinoyem1This is good to hear. Although I plan to take mine off during the winter. I don't trust WI's super concentrated corossive salt. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by hockey005
So far no problems with my LI's during the midwest summer rainstorms. :)
My car has seen all types of weather with all of my jammers and no real problems to speak of. My car is never under covers or in a garage either. I use to go to school in upstate NY
I live in Indiana I have had Blinder M-20's for three years they hold up well.
Bathed is an understatement. Update NY winter are no joke, I would def take off my jammers once winter rolls around, but then again I wouldn't be speeding excessively to need them either, waaay too dangerous.Quote:
Originally Posted by nyjason13Oh yeah, salt. In the winter months, roads around here are bathed in loads of salt. That can't be good for jammer heads.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinoyem1This is good to hear. Although I plan to take mine off during the winter. I don't trust WI's super concentrated corossive salt. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by hockey005
So far no problems with my LI's during the midwest summer rainstorms. :)
I have had a Blinder for some time now and I live in CNY (just a bit away from Syracuse)... and it has proven itself reliable for me thus far.
I very rarely wash my car... and on the front and back I have had zero issues. (dual M25's)...1-J16, 1-J15.
Forget the chemistry of the road-treatments.Quote:
Originally Posted by nyjason13
Just look at the practical side - it obscures the jammer heads' line-of-sight, either degrading reception or transmission, or both.
If your heads aren't clean, you're going to receive significantly less protection.
The only points of solace are rather small - that:
(1) enforcers are less likely to operate speed traps in the foulest of weather conditions - and are more focused on wrecks/rescues
(2), that when enforcing traffic, they're less likely to use LIDAR (due to weather/practicality constraints)
and (3) a dirty car is much less LIDAR reflective than a bright-and-clean car, and the way that road-treatment typically "stipples" the front of a vehicle and obscures the front license plate and/or lighting units does also make LIDAR lock less efficient.
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Me, personally?
My ZR3s lasted for 3+ years before one of the front heads finally saw moisture ingress.
Of the two of my first-run, initial-US-release v8.0 LI front heads, one developed moisture ingress issues after it and its line-mate literally got frozen, in a block of ice, onto the front of my car in one of our occasional NE-Ohio blizzards. This was after two winters of having this product, and through one exceptionally wet NE-Ohio summer, too. Cliff, of LI North-America/UK, upgraded me, free-of-charge as warranty support service to the initial-release users, to a pair of the revised v8.0A heads. My rear heads, both current variants, have not seen any problems, and have weathered one NE-Ohio winter.
One of my two front LPP heads, an older, Croatian-made variant, developed a moisture-ingress issue just before its first-year anniversary, and was replaced under-warranty by go.mouse of KMPH-Canada/LPP-Canada. My rear head recently developed a similar issue, and that head has weathered 2 NE-Ohio winters without problems, and was a casualty of this spring's early storms. go.mouse has graciously offered to extend my warranty protection on this item, and has promised me a free replacement head.