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Originally Posted by The STIG  Why would I say that? Well maybe I have owned Passports in the past and even some X50's and they dont even touch the V1. Belscort just reminds me of Cobra marketing...like the *GPS Lock Out Feature*...well we all know that is a false sense of security because people have already recieved tickets thinking since the 9500i was quite because of the lock out and they speed anyways. Escort did not test it long enough and just wanted to throw more detectors in major retails stores. They are just too gimikey for my driving style. |
The 9500I TrueLock always worked fine, not 1 person has ever shown me that a ticket has been given because of it, ever...
The reason people perceive that TrueLock doesn’t work was people didn’t take the time to understand what it was doing, they just assumed it was magic. The excessive videos that were done under the most unrealistic scenario to show the 1% chance of locking out a real threat also gave the perception of it not working all the time.
The V1 "J'd" out real alerts, so what’s so different? That is a false sense of security because people have received tickets because of the V1 junking a real alert.
See what im saying?
These are the things that need to take place to have a problem with TrueLock:
1) Local radar is running in X or K
2) You lock out a location with X or K
3) the location you lock out with X or K happens to be the same 30MHz block the local LEO's are running
4) A LEO is running radar in that same locked out area.
5) His signal is of about the same strength of the false so it doesn’t alert out side the locked out area.
6) and lastly you are speeding in that "High Risk" area.
That’s more variables than what it takes to get a ticket with a RD that has no TrueLock. and at least with the 9500I you have the choice of locking out a source or not.
These are the things that need to take place to have a problem the V1's Junk feature:
1) LEO running real radar
2) V1 junking it
3) ticket
Hmmm, that looks like V1 didn’t test the "J" feature long enough?
Yes the 8500 and 9500I are not a V1 but that’s what some people want, and that’s the point. Don’t get me wrong im not trying to bash the V1, we all know its a beast in detection range, but to make a blanket statement saying it doesn’t work or is a bad RD is not fair and completely false in both cases.