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There's no dumber feeling than having a car wired for a detector, having it in the glovebox and getting nailed.

I generally don't speed in urban areas so it comes on whenever I need to open it up. I thought A LOT about 911 mounting options, detector choices and permanently mounting the detector as this negates the theft risk of leaving it in the windshield and hassle of putting it up and down. I don't think the GPS thing would be so helpful as of yet. The key is early detetection...I'll accept some falses. You get to really understand the patterns of falses and what is real so that slowing down becomes second nature

The Elise and Boxster crew have a setup to mount it between the seats so it can see front and back. I thought of an outrigger off the passenger seat headrest. Also thought of a front valentine in the fresh air vent and one in the back window. After some unstandardized testing and viewing other's choices it seemed mounting it in the back window was the best compromise. I talked to Mike Valentine who said it would be ok to mount it in the back window although there might be some forward loss of range...it's so sensitive that I don't think it's a problem.

As it stands now the detector hangs below my high mounted third brake light, the controller box (extra item) is mounted to the back of the heater control box between the seats on 3.2 cars, the display is a custom job that sits somewhere on the dash (common spots are on the turn signal shroud at 6 o'clock of the tach, high up between the tach and speedo, over by the fuel door release, or in the ashtray). I also have an extra mute button hooked up to a microswitch that is afixed to the back of the turnsignal stalk. It works great.

Of note, when I was reading the 102, 087th google page on radar detectors I came across a police bulletin board like this one with all sorts of threads. One was talking about how useless detectors are. They were saying how many times they have pulled over people to ticket them and they had a detector on the dash. The consensus really was that they are useless. The boneheads forget that they have NO way of knowing how many people with their Valentines cranked on the brakes 2 miles ahead and were sitting in their cars wondering "is this guy really this far ahead of me" as the Valentine ticks like a bomb about to explode. The attitude was really amazing.