Hi Guys..
Any info on what works and what does not, would be appreciated.
But obviously I am wanting to buy a detector that works..
No Flaming please...!
Cheers

Most modern cars have a thing called "Cruise Control" if you set it to the speed limit you don't need a radar detector. It seems to me when I negotiate a certain high way at night .....(a high way that is notorious for car crashes and deaths.........

people that use this highway have not learnt how to use cruise control or are just complete losers with no respect for others,themselves and family's as I get continuously overtaken even nearing bends!


The short of it is mate that if you want to avoid speed cameras it means that you want to speed which means that you may shorten your life or somebody else's!

. . . . this is an in depth topic. . . i'll try and be brief

I used to work in the industry - installation of Laser shifters and hard wired multi head detectors

i don't know about other states but in wa it is 90% laser in perth metro with the exception of some fixed old style radar units on traffic specific cop cars

with just a detector and not a shifter you simply do not have the warning time to react to a laser signal the old radar system used to give you heaps of warning sorry

on top of that all of the new cruise control additions like blind spot watching and distance to vehicles ahead all run on the same bandwidth as laser speed detectors so there are lots more ghost warnings and as more new cars hit the roads this will only increase


that said as of december 2012 even with firmware updates none of the current top of the line detectors were even picking up the brand new blue hand held police lasers (the ones that also take photo's) just the multinovas(poliscan)

this may have changed in the past two months

if you use it mostly outside the metro area there are all the old multinovas (radar) still in use and detectors would save your arse

the best ones we sold were the bel sti in various editions
the company has good support and you can keep updating them as new guns are brought in to use

that aside jamming is the way to go although costly it is legal in WA as long as its called something else (like shifting or parking sensors)

airjunkie said...
that aside jamming is the way to go although costly it is legal in WA as long as its called something else (like shifting or parking sensors)

X 2.

But one night i watched a mate get pinged for speeding and he has a jammer installed. So i dont know? Time and place i guess.

Pretty hard these days with the pricks hiding behind objects catching you from behind. If they put as much effort in catching crims as they do making money, perth would be a better place to live

airjunkie said...

i don't know about other states but in wa it is 90% laser in perth metro with the exception of some fixed old style radar units on traffic specific cop cars

with just a detector and not a shifter you simply do not have the warning time to react to a laser signal

that aside jamming is the way to go although costly it is legal in WA as long as its called something else (like shifting or parking sensors)

Pretty much on the money, WA has gone mostly to laser speed detection on all the cameras. By the time you cross the beam and your detector has pinged your ticket is already in the mail (not quite but it may as well be).

Jammers don't really work either with the new blue laser thingies and if you are transmitting a signal on k-band in an attempt to jam there is no way to bluff your way out of it, your are breaking lots of laws, I think some federal communication ones in there too.

Your best bet is to go with pugwash's original post up the top.

it's not that hard nowadays seeing as it's either a van with a f$ckoff massive square window on the back or a x-trail . Either way it's bleeding obvious

airjunkie said...
. . . . this is an in depth topic. . . i'll try and be brief

I used to work in the industry - installation of Laser shifters and hard wired multi head detectors

i don't know about other states but in wa it is 90% laser in perth metro with the exception of some fixed old style radar units on traffic specific cop cars

with just a detector and not a shifter you simply do not have the warning time to react to a laser signal the old radar system used to give you heaps of warning sorry

on top of that all of the new cruise control additions like blind spot watching and distance to vehicles ahead all run on the same bandwidth as laser speed detectors so there are lots more ghost warnings and as more new cars hit the roads this will only increase


that said as of december 2012 even with firmware updates none of the current top of the line detectors were even picking up the brand new blue hand held police lasers (the ones that also take photo's) just the multinovas(poliscan)

this may have changed in the past two months

if you use it mostly outside the metro area there are all the old multinovas (radar) still in use and detectors would save your arse

the best ones we sold were the bel sti in various editions
the company has good support and you can keep updating them as new guns are brought in to use

that aside jamming is the way to go although costly it is legal in WA as long as its called something else (like shifting or parking sensors)

Thanks airjunkie..thats what I wanted to know...

Just looking for knowledge guys...!!!!

doggie said...
Tbh, I dont think that its a concious decision to speed, Im shocking for not checking my speed and it creeps up on me. I dont think Gyps is trying to break speed records or anything but I found the creep happens on long drives and you are concentrating on whats ahead eg roos etc.

Yes on long drives doggie...
Can't really speed in Mandurah as alot of speed limits are 50
and I drive a diesel

I have a navman...and that has a warning when you go over the speed limit...
But even after updating the navman it still tells me that the
Perth to Bunbury Highway is 100 ks instead of 110 in places
so i don't use that...

Who'd wanna live in victoria. Airport to Benalla used to pass 10+ fixed speed cameras and another 10 or more if flying out of weribee. Mostly on the back of overhanging speed signs. No warning. 2kmhs over qualifies.

That wasn't enough, now they do this too

Thanks KEAW YED
Some great info thanks guys

Oh come on Dave, what a beat-up. That is a garden variety video camera and a spotter with bino's, it is very obviously surveillance for somethign else.

I disagree with use of Mulatnova's etc but they were brought in to reduce man-hours and increase speeders detected. So to put 2 blokes watching up there I don't think it is run of the mill traffic policing, yah?

Maybe the w^nkers who feel the need to assault the camera operator cos they got a ticket for 20k's over?

Gyps, hook line and sinker does anyone believ they do that to catch speeders???

MDSXR6T said...


Sorry but i disagree. Few years ago i would have said the same but these days they are sneaky as fk and catching you from behind.

i'll disagree to disagree .

Mobile speed camera's are so obvious they may as well be painted bright pink .

dusta said...

MDSXR6T said...


Sorry but i disagree. Few years ago i would have said the same but these days they are sneaky as fk and catching you from behind.

i'll disagree to disagree .

Mobile speed camera's are so obvious they may as well be painted bright pink .

for the majority of sped cameras around perth they are in regular spots and very visible most people do there jobs just well enough to get paid but some take it to another level. . . they regularly have rear facing cameras on the reid highway hidden in the bushes totally out of sight and with the vehicle totally hidden as well you can only just see them when travelling in the other direction - one example, they do this sneaky stuff all over perth

plus dusta your saying that you haven't seen any of these hidden rear facing cameras at all around perth . . . could that be because they are hidden maybe ??
surely this is a remote possibility

Ados i can totally see your point about speeding in your street or in suburbia in general im totally against it, but in my opinion - freeways and highways ten or fifteen km's over when there is little traffic about is another story

Dusta,

I'll grab some pics over the weekend of their usual haunts up near me (alkimos / mindarie).

You seriously have no idea they are there.

You could always consider a speeding fine one of the few voluntary taxes. Even if you argue that it is purely revenue raising and has no benefit to road trauma, don't speed, don't pay. Doesn't get any easier.