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Old 10-31-2007, 03:42 PM
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This just came.


Got to work on it right away.



Installed the antenna in the grill. I moved it down a bit from there, it was hitting the hood.



Got it sitting on my dash for now. Got some gauge cups coming. I plan to mount them to the A-pillar, and in time get a A-pillar gauge pod.



Been watching these for a while now. They were first $399.99, now the price is about $250 to $300. Went on Ebay and found one on clearence with a buy it now for $149.00 + $10.00 shipping. Got it right away. It'* very nice. I didn't take a picture, but it has a small spaeker mounted on the pillar behind me near my ear. It tells me with a voice what it'* detecting, then sounds an alarm.
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thats pretty cool, ive been looking into detectors recently, this intrigues me..
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Here'* a bunch of them.

http://www10.shopping.com/xPO-Whistler-FUZION

Just looked on Ebay and I dont see any at a good price. Most are in the same range as the ones in the other link.
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hmm, thats about my price range, ill have to think about it some, how hard was the install? lack of portability is my only concern...
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Took me about an hour, but I was taking my time. it was rather easy. My only problem was I used one of those splicless connectors and it didn't work, so I had to mess with that. I finlyy stripped a wire and soldered it. So that took a while.
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Who was the ebay seller, I have an empty pod looking to be filled, thanks
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This is the seller

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbarneyselectronics

But I dont see any more listed. The one I got was clearence.
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I would like to have one, but the are illegal here

I was looking at that exact detector the other day....actually now that I think about it you posted the link to it

anyway...

let us know how that one works out
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Works great. It will take a while to get used to the voice. Kinda jumped the first time I heard a female voice from behind me saying X band. Wish it came in red instead of blue. I remember reading something about if it detects anything trying to detect it, it will shut down and go stealth. Has many other features I like. It has an outside temp, I thought, what do I need that for, I have one in the car. So I dropped the probe in to my air box. Now I know the temp of the air going in to my engine. Also has a volt gauge. It also has something called the radar safty system. Somehting about areas that have the system, the detector wil warn you of road conditions. I will have to look in to that more.
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I looked on line and I found another flavor of this detector, it'* the Whistler Cruisader, it'* made for motorcycles, and snowmobiles. Looks to be the same price. The only difference I saw was a black faceplate.


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