What Camera Detector for a cerb

[gazm]

Hi Everyone

I've got a TOMTOM 910 which is great in the Range Rover (window is as big as the living room) but in the cerb it kind of blocks the way (no to mention keeps falling off and whacking me on the knee!) What does everyone else use (I more interested in a camera detector than sat nav)

Cheers

Gareth

[D.A.Z.]

i got the road angel,small,easy to use,the cradle for it is great and the camera det seems good up till now too
Daz

[Touching Cloth]

I know you say Camera Detector over the SatNav but would recommend he Garmin I3 (I think it's discontinued now but still some around). I have one and it was the size that appealed because it fits neatly to the right of the binacle, you can trail the wire discreetly from the ciggie lighter under the steering wheel and up the side. Speed camera database can be obtained from pocketgpsworld.com for about £2 a go whenever you want to update it. As a nav unit it is probably outclassed by the modern alternatives but it gets the job done, you can probably pick one up for about £99 at which price it becomes a cracking little unit IMHO.

[gazm]

Touching Cloth said:

I know you say Camera Detector over the SatNav but would recommend he Garmin I3 (I think it's discontinued now but still some around). I have one and it was the size that appealed because it fits neatly to the right of the binacle, you can trail the wire discreetly from the ciggie lighter under the steering wheel and up the side. Speed camera database can be obtained from pocketgpsworld.com for about £2 a go whenever you want to update it. As a nav unit it is probably outclassed by the modern alternatives but it gets the job done, you can probably pick one up for about £99 at which price it becomes a cracking little unit IMHO.

Cheers TC. I'm leaning more towards a camera detector (mobile ideally) although you have to question the ability for them to spot a mobile camera before you have been sapped

[cooky]

I use an origin B2, it's small and very easy to use, with hardly any false alarms. It gives almost 360o cover and as far as I know is the only device able to detect mobile Gatso, Truvelo, Radar, Laser, and SPECS. I beleive there is also a radar jam facility, but this is apparently illegal and therefore I couldn't tell you how it works It is also updateable via the web with all static camera locations as well as accident blackspots.
Top kit for not a lot of dosh. Got mine from fleabay for about £200 and you can buy extra cradles and antennae for whrn you switch vehicles.
Yearly subscription is cheap and if you buy a 2nd hand one it cost about a score to reregister in your name.

[jensena]

Personally I think the GPS NAvigation with the SC database is the safest bet. A Detector unit? You may be lucky and pick up stray reflections aimed at the car just in front of you, and you may just have time to slow down before it is aimed at you - but the SC Database would have warned you a camera was there in the first place -and if it picks up a beam that is aimed at you, then the Trap has already got you.
I know it sounds boring, but I use my SC Database to linit my over 100 blasts to very short spurts when I know thwere isnt a camera around, My cerbs been in the garage for 3 weeks and I miss it - i think a 6 month ban for going over the ton would make me suicidal!

Edited by jensena on Sunday 29th October 20:23

[philcerbera]

I have a TomTom. There is a function that allows you to turn the screen upside down and then you can mount centrally with the TomTom display below the windscreen just above the cubby hole in the centre. Only the sucker is on the windscreen. It means little loss of vision. Takes a bit of fiddling the first time to get the bracket at the right angle but simple thereafter.....

[byker28i]

Hopefully a Road Angel Compact with laser detector as I've just bought one. I think I've been nabbed friday night at just over 40 in a 40 zone. I was bimbling along behind a micra when they suddenly slowed violently. As it was dual carrigeway I pulled around them and there was Wiltshires finest hiding behind the lampost.

Ho Hum...

[Jonnie B]

Hi i agree with Cooky and i use an Origen so far very good.
Ive got it mounted in the large cuby hole suspended from under the radio, wich allows it to swing up and out of sight when not in use.I made a home made extra hinge bracket for it to sit on.
John B

[cerby4.5]

Road Angel 2!
Excellent unit, easy to update and very reliable! Ours has been hard-wired in to the ignition and works a treat. It has paid for itself many times over!
Cerby4.5

[FUBAR]

Had an RA 2, now have an RA Navigator. Stuck smack bang in the middle of the screen, touching the dash. Lovely

[jollygreengriff]

I have just bought a Road Angel compact - easy to use and owing to the limited windscreen space, can be stored off the dash and use an antenna for signal receipt. Only down side is that you really need the optional laser to detect mobile units fore and aft for full protection and this will need line of sight.

Only had the unit two weeks and it has detected countless fixed/safety/mobile units already plus a few that I have crawled past before only to find not currently operational.

I posted on this before. I drive some 35.000 miles a year for work and have done so in various commuter and sports vehicles with no trouble for sixteen years. Buy a green Volvo and two sets of three and a full front end shunt to boot in five weeks of getting it!

I wonder now if Volvo is Swedish for "unlucky"?

Regards all