What Radar Detectors and Dashcams do you like for your 458/488?

As with every car and bike forum you won't get ANY consensus. On detectors some swear by Paspport, an equal amount will tell you anything but a Valentine is wrong, and lastly a couple love their K40's. Use the search function, grab a snack and several beers and begin your research.

With dash cams there's simply too many factors to answer your question - do you want/ need 2ch (front and rear view) is size a consideration? Do you need/ want a screen or is your phone via blue tooth sufficient? Battery or capacitor? Night vision important? Do you want GPS and speed recorded? I could go on and on again search this or any car forum you'll get tons of opinions and little consensus

 

Unless you have a jammer, no laser detector will do you any good... if the LEO is using lidar, by the time your device warns you, it's already too late. In your area, almost all LEO use LIDAR and have backed away from radar, which had a wide dispersion pattern... hence radar detectors were very good in those days. In DC, there is hardly anywhere for you to speed, either there's extreme traffic, or pothole/pedestrian at every corner.

Your best bet is to use Waze and make sure bluetooth streaming is enabled on your device, giving you an audible warning, but that's still not 100% as the officer can be at their position moments before you show up.

 

ALP + Waze

Everything else is second rate

 

Agree ALP is tops for Laser. I have a Radenso, V1 and the new Uniden R3. If you really want to go deep on this subject check out Votex's web site or YouTube channel, clearly THE expert in the U.S. He even does one on one consulting.

P.S. he even test for detectability by LEO

 

It's actually Vortex and the website is VortexRadar.com Plus he has an excellent YouTube channel....just type in Vortex Radar