X band falsing

[protias]

Well, it looks like I'll have to send my V1 in again this year. I've been getting a single bar on X band, forward facing. It doesn't matter if I'm alone or with traffic. /sigh ...just as the holiday comes around and I'm making a road trip next week.

[unmamfqlm]

Man, terrible timing. At least you have radar detectors that you can use for backup.

[category4]

My Sprint cell phone used to cause X band falsing on my V1, have you tried eliminating extraneous sources such as this?

[protias]

My Sprint cell phone used to cause X band falsing on my V1, have you tried eliminating extraneous sources such as this?

No, not yet. I will try that. Hopefully that isn't the case.

[Won Hunglo]

In car GPS too close or cell phones have caused this to happen to me in the past. Sometime switching to big L helps, a few other times I disabled X band until the trip was done.

[protias]

I drove with it for a little bit today and I received no falses.

[protias]

So driving to work this morning, two bars on X band forward. On the way back from work, no falsing. WTF?

[category4]

That's the way my phone was, weak X band signal for 20-30 miles then it would be gone. A few days later it would be back. Turn the phone off it went away!

[protias]

I had the phone it its cradel both times. This isn't the first time I've had X band false with this V1. First time I had full alert to the rear. I sent it in and got it fixed. And I've been running it this way for several months and only recently this is an issue.

[North Alabama]

I also had to send in my old thick unit twice before due to the micro diode clip in the horn was not making good contact which gave the X band alerts mostly when cold for about two minutes after start-up but got worse over time. The front was first then the rear happened about a year later. Valentine stated that they had to use a microscope to do this for it is very small and is a common problem.They also did up-dates also for free for I have never had to pay for a repair. Good luck!