Anyone ever move their RVM in order to mount high?

[The Invisible Vervet]

I'm debating moving my RVM down an inch or two in order to mount my V1 high.

My car has the blue tint strip as well as the ceramic dots near the center, which I have gathered through searching should not pose any handicap to range or accuracy capabilities. Is that correct?

How difficult is it to remove and reaffix a rear view mirror? I've noticed that right under the spot where the neck/stem sticks to the glass that there appears to be the same ceramic dot treatment on the glass.

As it stands right now, there isn't room to mount high above the RVM (technically I can jam it into the space, but the front/receiving end of the unit is angled down and the controls and rear horn are angled upwards towards the roof), and mounting to either side would prohibit visor use (I hate sunglasses so I do on occasion rely on my visors) and I don't think it would get a very good "view" out the back window anyway.

I'd like to mount high so that I can leave it up when I get out of the car and so that I can add a remote display without having to go through a whole song and dance every time I enter the car of putting the V1 into it's mount, plugging in power, plugging in the remote display, and plugging my GPS into its cradle. If I could leave the V1 alone and just have to worry about the GPS each time I get in or out of the car, I'd like that.

I'm not very tall (and neither is the cabin of my car) so I don't expect there to be any huge loss of visibility if I were to move the RVM down an inch or two. I'll likely also add a Cheetah mirror at the same time as doing all of this other stuff as well as have it all hardwired at once.

[TSi+WRX]

On your legacy, bro, before you try something that drastic......

Our interior RVM stalk is dual-hinged. One pivot hinge exists at the mounting point of the mirror to the windshield glass, and another exist at the point where the stalk mounts to the mirror.

By adjusting both of these, you should be able to get your RVM down low enough that you can clear the detector.

[The Invisible Vervet]

Thanks!!! Very interesting. I'll go poke around a little bit later. Hopefully it can be adjusted enough that it'll be low enough that the V1 can still "see" out the rear window.





As you can see, there's a bit of slope to the roof...

[crazyVOLVOrob]

Just mount the V1 next to the mirror!!!! You will not get any major performance difference from mounting it above the rear view....The video shows where I mount my V1 as well as my other detectors
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVR5bUgKYk]YouTube - Mounting the V1 Radar Detector[/ame]

[REBinc]

I want a LGT Wagon!

[The Invisible Vervet]

Just mount the V1 next to the mirror!!!! You will not get any major performance difference from mounting it above the rear view

I would incur a significant visor performance decrease if I were to do so. Furthermore, it would upset me to no end for my RD to be asymetrically located, even though rationally I know that it would likely make no real difference in terms of performance.

I was intrigued by your solution to suction cups over the ceramic dots though. What did you use for that?

I want a LGT Wagon!

It is a great car if I do say so myself. I can't wait until I'm though with school and I can afford a few performance upgrades here and there...

I don't suppose you're going to be in CU between Christmas and New Years, are you?

[Cips]

I would incur a significant visor performance decrease if I were to do so. Furthermore, it would upset me to no end for my RD to be asymetrically located, even though rationally I know that it would likely make no real difference in terms of performance.

I was intrigued by your solution to suction cups over the ceramic dots though. What did you use for that?



It is a great car if I do say so myself. I can't wait until I'm though with school and I can afford a few performance upgrades here and there...

I don't suppose you're going to be in CU between Christmas and New Years, are you?

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...-your-rvm.html

[REBinc]

It is a great car if I do say so myself. I can't wait until I'm though with school and I can afford a few performance upgrades here and there...

I don't suppose you're going to be in CU between Christmas and New Years, are you?

Nope, I'll be back in Chicago next week to start my winter job. I'm also applying for a job down here next semester, which will hopefully lead to having two jobs during summer, and then I'll have the decision to pay off the GTO, or buy a LGT and keep making payments on the GTO.

[TSi+WRX]

I was intrigued by your solution to suction cups over the ceramic dots though. What did you use for that?

In addition to Cips's citation of MEM-TEK's method, using the high-temperature 3M TekLok, you can also take a lesson from CJR's "headliner insert" idea, here:

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/374654-post12.html

^ When I first got my GReddy Informeter a couple of years ago, I'd fashioned a metal bracket for the same effect, and located the display above my internior RVM.

lacning, similarly, used his visor clip to effect a similar mounting, by clipping the detector to the headliner:

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/353461-post17.html

^ Although I've never done this for my detectors, I've used the same idea, before I got the Cheetah GPS-Mirror, to attach a supplemental "baby-seat mirror" to my headliner, just above my rearview:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...deDay9500i.jpg

Other ideas include using anything from layered strips of clear packing tape to using silicone grease - to epoxy - to help the suction cups achieve their ends.

I've actually used the packing tape method to help adhesion of my child's sun-shades, when she was a baby, and it worked very well.

[crazyVOLVOrob]

I would incur a significant visor performance decrease if I were to do so. Furthermore, it would upset me to no end for my RD to be asymetrically located, even though rationally I know that it would likely make no real difference in terms of performance.

I was intrigued by your solution to suction cups over the ceramic dots though.

It really doesn't decrease the use of the my sunvisor but then again I where sunglasses most the time when I am driving

And to combat the ceramic dots I just used a piece of plexiglass and double sided tape. for the best look use black double sided tape