BUSTER MILES CHEVROLET PRO
So when we say that the V1 Gen2 squawks more than the Max 360c and the Pro M, we recognize that some people will see that as a perk. The fanatical customers who swear by the original V1 often prefer a noisy detector to a selective one. Verdict: There's no better companion for speeding in unfamiliar territory. Lows: No GPS lockout, picks up more false alarms than the others. Highs: Longest range in test, easy to update, simple display. Pick the Pro M if you want a reliable detector that minimizes the number of false alerts. You adjust its angle on the windshield by bending the metal bracket it mounts to, and there's no app to assist with adjusting settings. Its lowest-in-test price is another selling point, but the Radenso does feel cheaper than the others.
BUSTER MILES CHEVROLET DRIVER
The Pro M's tiny size is a boon for driver visibility. But its rear coverage is a relative weak point. The Radenso has strong frontal range, and it matched the Escort in the 90-degree corner test. That lets you reduce sensitivity to, say, the rarely used X band without muting it entirely. All three detectors can be programmed to ignore whole radar bands, but only the Radenso allows the user to adjust the strength of filtering for each type.
In our false-filtering test, the Radenso rang out just twice compared with six and seven times for the Escort and Valentine, respectively. The Pro M is significantly quieter than the others, but we trust it to pick up police radar. Verdict: A quiet radar detector with good threat detection. Lows: Little rearward protection, questionable mount durability, confusing menus and controls. Highs: Excellent out-of-the-box filtering, GPS lockout, great price. Just know that not all of those bells and whistles work as well as the competition's.įor updates on this generation of radar detectors from Escort, we just reviewed the Max 360c Mk II, which you can read here. You'll pay a premium for the feature-packed Max 360c. We like that you can slide the Max 360c on and off the EZ Mag mount with one hand, and the power-cord mute button can be handy, depending on where your car's 12-volt outlet is located. That lag makes it difficult to know exactly where-and what-the radar is coming from. If the V1's arrows point out the threat in real time, the Max 360c's seem like they're on a five-second delay. Escort began parroting the V1's hallmark arrows back in 2015, but they're not as useful here. The Max 360c gave ample warning in all three of our scenarios. Fortunately, it has GPS lockout and can learn to ignore fixed-location triggers. With six false alerts on our suburban route, the Max 360c wasn't much quieter than the V1 Gen2. The Escort exists in the space between the Valentine's high sensitivity and the Radenso's adept filtering. Verdict: A balanced compromise of range and filtering comes at a price. Lows: Expensive, arrow function is less useful than Valentine's. Highs: GPS lockout, slick magnetic mount, easy to mute with power-cord button. Which one you want depends on how you expect a radar detector to behave. It's easy to get mired in test results when all you want to know is, "If I stick this on my windshield, will I get a ticket?" Any of these detectors will greatly reduce your odds of a chat with the roadside tax collector. But for the Escort, drive past a no-good automatic door three times, and in theory you'll never hear that false alert again. You have to push a button for the Pro M to remember irksome spots. Two of the three models offer GPS lockout for this kind of thing it works by logging location and frequency. Without filtering, this drive is essentially a continuous, nine-mile-long alert due to the motion detectors everywhere. To see how well each weeds out false alerts, we then switched the detectors from their most sensitive mode to their most selective and rolled through Ann Arbor's strip-mall gauntlet. While police radar guns shoot X-, K-, and Ka-band frequencies, we stuck to Ka band, as it's the most difficult to detect at a distance. We kept our tests simple, measuring front and rear detection distance and how well each sensed radar around a corner. Radenso, a relative newcomer, has garnered a strong following with its top model, the $450 Pro M. For a steep $650, the Escort Max 360c is loaded with features, including directional arrows and a GPS antenna. Valentine's V1 Gen2 is the first major redesign since the V1 debuted in 1992, and at $499, it's cheaper than the original when accounting for inflation. We couldn't test them all, but we managed to gather three heavy hitters for this test.
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