advice pls

[9pts&scared]

After finally getting a clean licence about a year ago, I have suddenly found via 2 speed camera's, and an 80 on a dual carriageway yesterday, that the cop said was a 60 limit, found myself with 9pts and 2 and a half years to run.

Questions: what is the reality of getting another camera NIP - will I definately get 3 pts at court and a ban, and what length of ban would it realistically be?

are the insurance products any good? Guess would now cost me a fortune?

what electronic gizmo should I get?

[tvr totty]

road angel - for deffo, just bought one, after hubby has 6 points from 2 bloody vans.

picks up the lot, £379.00 on line and worth every penny

hope this helps

[Mr2Mike]

It won't help you avoid mobile camera units though. The only thing that can help in that instance is a laser jammer which is treading on dangerous legal ground.

[mondeoman]

Try using your eyes .....
Cheap and you've got two of em. That takes care of the fixed cameras for sure.

As for the talivans - its in the lap of the gods.

[gh0st]

mondeoman said:

As for the talivans - its in the lap of the gods.

Not with my SLD920X it aint....

[Cooperman]

Get an address in Southern Ireland, get an Irish licence, an Irish registered car and insure it through the Dublin office of your current insurers. It may sound complicated but I have a friend who did this and he then got away with 104 mph on the M4, and his real home is near Brecon, Wales. It works. You just need to do this for 2+ years.

[deeps]

Not with my SLD920X it aint....[/quote]

Whats that?
Do all scamera vans use lazer devices or what else?
My bel euro 550 picks up handheld lazer guns well, but never goes off passing a scamvan.

[Tafia]

tvr totty said:

road angel - for deffo, just bought one, after hubby has 6 points from 2 bloody vans. picks up the lot, £379.00 on line and worth every penny hope this helps

I am copying my reply to this from the "I love speed cameras" thread in case you didnt see it. To rely on any detector or GPS to avoid a mobile trap is unwise to say the least. Reply below reads.....

Beware. I asked Road Angel/Blackspot if they would record the location of mobile traps on their database and they said clearly, "NO"

You can log your own but that isn't much use in a strange area. Also, if you have the laser detector and it is triggered, it's too late. It zaps your vehicle in 0.3 of a second.

I am not convinced that plod's laser beam is wide enough to scatter and allow detection in your vehicle when a vehicle in front is zapped as suggested by laser detector makers.

I have been lasered twice ( under the limit -- why was I lasered?) and on both occasions there was nothing in front of me when my Bel 980 shouted "Laser Alert"

Take care

[hertsbiker]

Tafia, the operators do not use the laser device in accordance with the law. Yet they expect YOU to obet everything, and sign your life away.

Once upon a time the operator was supposed to "form an opinion" that you were speeding, then use the laser to confirm it.

Now they just laser everything, because they are scum.

[DennisTheMenace]

SLD-920x is the new laserjam...garage door opener from snooper , its easier to fit and has uprated gubbins inside , the kwack will be stealth this summer (providing i can get another flip plate)

Undetectable and untraceable


Edited to add: the joys of going past a Talivan at 140+ on a clear stright road knowing they have all to go on


>> Edited by DennisTheMenace on Wednesday 17th March 22:55

[NugentS]

A solicitor I know suggested the following:

Register the car top a Ltd company
The Secretary of the company should live abroad (pref outside Europe)

End of problem

[eliminator]

NugentS - then the car becomes a taxable benefit and that's expensive.

[deeen]

not if the company closes down with no creditors. A car you put some miles on in your own name helps, too.

[smashmonkey1984]

DennisTheMenace said:

SLD-920x is the new laserjam...garage door opener from snooper , its easier to fit and has uprated gubbins inside , the kwack will be stealth this summer (providing i can get another flip plate) Undetectable and untraceable Edited to add: the joys of going past a Talivan at 140+ on a clear stright road knowing they have all to go on >> Edited by DennisTheMenace on Wednesday 17th March 22:55

Yep, flip plates look to be the way to go. the thing about motorists compared to burglars is that the police alway know where we're gonna be(on a road, anywhere) and we have a unique number burglar's don't!
all this info is probably in Policing for idiots vol.1

take care all