Me and my friend were arguing over the best placement of a radar detector. Do you want to mount it high as possible,....or low as possible for the best performance?

(note: I don't care about picking up laser,...because all the laser warning does is tell you that you've already been clocked)

I agrued that since a radar detector was really a type a radio, that the higher you mount it, the better signal you will get.

And as a sub topic: Does anyone have a hidden radar detector or something similar?

For right now, I have mine hard-wired, mounted right in front of the rear view mirror with the wire running along the rear view mirror post, then up through the headliner, and then down the a pillar, and then into the dash. You can't see it from behind and it is difficult to see from the front as well. This also ties in with the placement theory, because mine is placed so high. I passed one of those radar speed trailors one day and decided to try a little experiment. I drove towards it with it in my normal position and it picked up the signal from a good distance. The second time, I experimented with an idea I had of mounting the detector someone on my center console (since it technically is a radio device, it should work). Well, it didn't pick up anything mounted down there. So that seems to say that mounting it higher is better......but I am the only one I know that does it???

thanks,
-confuzzbustled

 

radar is not like a radio, its actually an invisible beam of light per se, the radar gun is like a flashlight and your detector has to see the light to detect it, up high is the best.

 

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