Speed trap detectors, which one is the best?

Not too worried about gps speed camera locations, just wanna know if the police are parked up with a gun! and is there anything I can buy that can stop them seeing how fast i'm going briefly?

(once saw a thing on 5th gear that briefly jammed the signal allowing you to slow down then turned itself off, cant remember what it's called though I think it mascueraded as a garage door opener).

Cheers.

Such jammers are highly illegal and will see you busted for peverting the course of justice. most if not all detectors give you very little warning of impending doom anyway with the newer laser cameras locking on to you before they are even detected. you pays ya money and takes ya choice...:(

I had a RA2 and still got 6 points from mobile sites, just take the chance.

I have been using a Speed Cheetah and Tom Tom with camera POI's.

45000 miles a year and 3 points in the last 4, and that was the week after I got my One click.

Such jammers are highly illegal and will see you busted for peverting the course of justice. most if not all detectors give you very little warning of impending doom anyway with the newer laser cameras locking on to you before they are even detected. you pays ya money and takes ya choice...:(

According to that 5th gear report they were a grey area, but if you could prove you had an electric garage door opener they were ok?

Has the law been changed since then? it's a fairly old 5th gear episode on sky.

No one know of a decent detector then?

IIRC some guy in Cardiff got done for having a jammer, think he was sent down as well!!!!

The only legal ones I know of are the GPS based camera dectors. The Road Angel is sucha device and has a radar dector built in (it is legal). Halfords are selling the road angel compact with sensor for

any detector is 'fine' and shouldn't see any probs with the law, jammers however ARE illegal and will see a jail term if its proven you were using it. Like i said, they class it as peverting the course of justice.

I've done some research on't net and from what I can see it's not illegal and the 'perverting the course of justice' case was dropped.

apparently they are still a grey area and any case against you would be something to do with inhibiting an officer in there duty, there is no law at present that makes laser jammers illegal - so long as you can prove that they are used for another purpose, and you turn it off if it interferes with other equipment, i.e. police laser guns.

As an interesting note, the adaptive cruise control system fitted as an option to some new cars (nissan I believe) does exactly the same thing as a laser jammer, obviously it's not intended for that purpose so thats how it can be legal.

Anyhow, having spoken to a friend in the traffic dept I have bought a laser park pro, laser guided parking sensor! it will automatically shut down once it detects a laser device such as a speed gun, and alert me to the fact it's doing so (with a handy 5 second delay).

Oh and as for the dont speed comment - I'm an adult, i'm perfectly capable of making my own decisions and suffering the consequences of those decisions, I dont need any patronising thank you very much.

Not one driver can say they have never exceeded the speed limit, and if they do they are lying, I drive for a living so value my licence, I dont habitually speed or drive recklessly, I just want that added protection for when plod are doing some revenue raising.

EDIT - sorry, realise now your dont speed comment was a bit tounge in cheek!!

Agreed, If you use a jamming device you will be thoroughly spanked good and hard.

Laser traps generally target the number plate (vertical surface = reliable reading), most detecotrs are in the windscreen so aren't that reliable.

You are only allowed to passively detect such things as radar/laser traps but to be honest, most of the detectors you can buy are woefully unreliable and by the time it goes off (if at all) you've already been caught.

Just keep the lead out of your right shoe and you'll be fine.

There are quite a few threads on here about GPS detectors, most people are raving about the Talex unit, I have a TDS TR-30 so I am not a Talex expert.

What I do know is it's GPS only but laser/radar detectors are going to be made illegal at some point to it's not worth getting that option.

The GPS systems have a database of common mobile speed traps and thats normally sufficient.

Re the Nissan Primera cruise control, someone was arrested in Holland or Belgium for that exact reason some years ago. They thought he was trying to jam the speed detectors!

Personally, the jamming issue is a very grey area and it would take some serious explaining to prove you have a motorised garage door if you really don't.

This makes for interesting reading: http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/jamlaw.htm

I never ever speed and never have done, those 6 points I had on my licence were a figment of my over active imagination and I only have a speed camera detector cos it makes nice bleeping noises :P

Personally, I wouldn't use a jammer, Talex is good enough for me.

You might find this of interest though ?

http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/jamlaw.htm

If you're going to use one you probably picked the right one !

Beat you to it:P

Beat you to it:P

Damn !

I was 2 minutes quicker than you....................

Is that a good or bad thing??

It was after reading that site I chose the laser park pro!!