POLL DO YOU HIDE YOUR RADAR DETECTOR WHEN NOT IN USE?

**jono40141** · 08-13-2006, 11:10 AM

Hey i was just wondering who hides there detector please share your experiences. I know some people hide it so the sun and the temperature inside the car wont get hot. I have a 8500 X50 and i hide it from both thieves and the sun. Probably wont in winter. I know the RX65 seems to be greatly effected with SELF CAL and heat from sun issues. If you spend that much money you shouldnt have to worry about the sun... I have heard from a lot of forum reading.

**SpeedFreak** · 08-13-2006, 11:16 AM

Im doin pretty much the same thing as you , and i bring it back home everyday. :wink:

**Radar_Dick** · 08-13-2006, 11:19 AM

I don't hide mine very often, unless it's a shady part of town or I'm going into an apartment complex/mall/etc. If I do hide it there's a large sunglass pocket that my v1 slides into, in fact I have the pwr cable routed so it comes out of this pocket. So if I do hide it all I do is slide it out of the mount & into the headliner compartment.

**kpatz** · 08-13-2006, 11:30 AM

My V1 is permanently hidden from thieves (and protected from the sun as well) inside a visor pouch. So I don't have to take it down under normal circumstances.

But when I use the X50, it comes down when I park and stashed away from prying eyes and the burning sun (hmmm. I wonder if SPF 45 Coppertone smeared all over a detector will help with sun-related issues)

**WRC** · 08-13-2006, 11:30 AM

i take it down, no need for sel cal messages

**V1 Dave** · 08-13-2006, 11:40 AM

Depends on the situation, in my personal drive to work Caprice it is visor mounted and does not stick out much, kind of resembles a garage door opener, since driving with a visor mounted unit since '85 I have never had a LEO inquire about it if pulled over for something else, I don't think they see it.
Always stays there unless switching to family Expedition which is windshield mounted at dash level, parked in garage at night time, I take that one off if out of town over night or cover it for long sun encounters.
Work Peterbuilt is dash mounted with a rag over it.

**SmaartAasSaabr** · 08-13-2006, 12:47 PM

I always take it out... don't want any police seeing it either :wink:

At home I take it in the house too.

**DogGod** · 08-13-2006, 01:33 PM

I take mine down when I'm parking anywhere that isnt home. Usually I just take the detector down and leave the mount up, and take the V1 with me, and tuck the phone cord away out of sight. I would really hate some one stealing it and not knowing what it was worth and end up selling it for $20 worth of meth. At home I leave it up unless it is a really hot day. With my previous detectors ie Cobra, it would stay up all the time, no matter what I was pretty sure that if anyone wanted on that bad they would have gone to walmart and got one themselves. Cobras dont really instill that impulse theif, but a higher end RD could catch the eye of not so nice people, and I might have to get a new window and a new RD.

P.S. Is there anything V1 or belscort can do about a stolen RD?

**jdreynss** · 08-13-2006, 06:09 PM

I always put mine under the seat, or in the center console...Even if I'm just running in somewhere for a minute..better safe than sorry, plus I don't want one of those self-cal messages that I have read about

**GTO_04** · 08-13-2006, 07:26 PM

VR will not repair RD's reported as stolen, nor will they repair one with a missing or altered serial number. Ditto for Cincinnati Microwave, at least when I had my original Escort.

So if someone steals your RD, report it to the manufacturer.

I work in a bad neighborhood, so V1 goes into the office with me.

GTO_04