So i picked one of these up from stereo advantage the other day and compared to my ****ty cobra this things gives so many false alarms....laser is by far the worst....at least once every time i take a trip in my car LASER pops up....i also get alot more false alarm k band than i used too maybe bc its more sensitive? i was just wondering if anyone else had this unit and if it does the same thing for you

 

Yea man,I've got the same one...bought it about 3 months ago I guess.

It does give false alerts and I do get random *** LASER alerts as well,sometime even out where I live (the sticks) where it shouldnt even be going off Laser. So yea yours is normal,but when it comes down to it this sucker has a range I couldnt believe compared to my previous Cobra detectors.

P.S. - I usually leave mine on Autoscan,turning it to City mode takes away some of the false alerts but most of my alerts are CVS and grocery store auto-opening doors.

 

I had a Bell about 20 years ago (before laser) and the thing was awesome. When the laser tech came along I bought another one (535i I think), that was ten years ago. It was soooo bad, with sooo many false alerts it was unusable. I don't know where Bell went wrong - but it looks like they are no better now.

 

yeah that sounds right

 

I still have to recommend Valentine1. Not as cutting edge, and a little long in the tooth, but it kicks azz on false alarms, and still is well within warning range performance of any new detector out there.