No detector in car - how to find cameras for long trip?
No detector in car - how to find cameras for long trip?
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lafcadio

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112 posts

241 months

Thursday 24th July 2008
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I'm picking up my new car in Cheshire on Saturday, and driving it to London. Want to use mix of Mway and A roads. Trouble is, haven't got a detector yet (will get once have car at home).

Is there a website that I can put the route into, and it'll simply list all the cameras on the way, that I can then print out? the only sites I can find either do it by county (and I can't print all them) or by pictorial maps, which won't work either. Any ideas? thanks!

7db

6,060 posts

256 months

Thursday 24th July 2008
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Have you considered looking out of the windscreen?

tegwin

1,682 posts

232 months

Thursday 24th July 2008
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What a wonderful idea!.....Or dont speed...

WildCat

8,369 posts

269 months

Friday 25th July 2008
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1. Plan the route by most recent road atlas.. they give idea as to location of scams on the roads you might usewink by placing a symbol on them. You not know exactly where.. but at least you know there ist a scam along them somewhere...wink

2. If a pal has a plug-in/play useful gadget... ask if you can borrow this for the journey home.. or the Sat Nav you take with you on country walks .. might also have this informationwink

3. If the car has factory built Sat Nav.. it may have fave scam sites listed,, (as at date of manufacture....)

BEST PLAN... thoughwink

4. Apply C O A S T on way back und treat the "new baby" gentlywink. He will show you what he can do when you are used to himwink

SplatSpeed

7,491 posts

277 months

Friday 25th July 2008
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Mk1 Eyeball

when used efectivly can spot a camera for a far enough distance and send a signal to brain 1.0

this inturn will activate leg and foot 1.0 and trainers 54.0 will have presure applied to brake pedel through them

lafcadio

Original Poster:

112 posts

241 months

Friday 25th July 2008
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take your points about the two round things with lids on them. and they're find for Gatso's but Specs, laser traps are different (as my licence used to show). 'don't speed' is of course the most certain way not to get caught, but i prefer to spend my concentration on 'driving safely' thanks.

Engineer1

10,486 posts

235 months

Friday 25th July 2008
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It's your new car, personally i would take it easy and drive within or close to the limits, buy or borrow a cheapo satnav with cameras on some give you the exact location some give you warnings once you enter the stretch controlled by the cameras.

Nic Jones

7,185 posts

246 months

Friday 25th July 2008
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Try driving a bit slower if you find it that hard to spot these things.

I'm sure many of us manage pretty well without detectors and devices in the car beeping constantly.

Specs are easy to spot a fecking great gantry with a camera or two on it.

Laser traps.... well, i'm just suspicious of anything I see parked on the verge in the distance.

It's not hard really.

Edited by Nic Jones on Friday 25th July 09:04

Puff Puff

23,143 posts

252 months

Friday 25th July 2008
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lafcadio said:
take your points about the two round things with lids on them. and they're find for Gatso's but Specs, laser traps are different (as my licence used to show). 'don't speed' is of course the most certain way not to get caught, but i prefer to spend my concentration on 'driving safely' thanks.
That's a lamentable excuse for not being observant - that Specs and laser traps are 'different'.