Alright, I posted at radardetector.net about advice mounting my radar antenna, but haven't heard anything back. I have a metal treatment in my windshield, and according to MikeV that results in a 90% drop in effectivness for windshield mounted detectors, so I pulled the V1 off the glass in favor of an RX75.
Right now the range is anything but stellar, but I haven't had a good chance to compare the units, with a stationary officer, I used to see them all the time around here, and now I don't ever, haha. So, I was thinking of moving the antenna up to grill (it is currently a few inches back from it on the right...here is a shot of the front end of my car, a c30):
http://www.sport-cars.org/site_img/l...olvo-C30-1.jpg
I want to move it to the top left (the side away from the chrome cross bar) and move it right up to a gap in the grill.
Now I have ANOTHER problem. I went on the highway, I was getting constant X alerts in city mode, so I switched it to City no-X, but I have passed cops on the highway in Michigan using X, so I want it highway mode. But I get a false every couple of minutes. They always start at a full strength 9 (I have it in strength mode) then count down through the numbers, and shuts off. Only to do the EXACT same thing a few moments later. Is this a defective unit? I will call Beltronics tommorow, I really don't want to have to pull the whole system and send it back, but I am about ready to do that. And it seems like a waste to reinstall the thing to me. My V1 works better even handicapped by that windshield.