Beltronics BEL 890 Radar Detector
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- Mute: With Mute
- Detection Mode: City / Highway modes
- Detection Area: Front / Rear
- VG-2/VG-3 Alert: VG-2 Alert
- Detection Bands: X Band K Band Ka Band Laser
- Alert type: Audio / Visual
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BEL proves itself once again
Pros
Everything...
Cons
None
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
It pays for itself in about one or two months...
I guess I can say that I've been pretty lucky the last few years. Being almost 19, I have been driving for about 3 years now, and I have never gotten in an accident, or have even gotten a speeding ticket.
Ever since I started driving, I have always wanted to purchase a radar detector. I never got around to it until about a month ago. It's already paid for itself knowing how many tickets I've avoided already because of it.
Living in Arizona, (reknown for bad drivers) there are a lot of red-light radar/cameras, photo radar vans, and police just waiting to give you a ticket. My faithful BEL 890 has given me plenty of advanced warning of photo radar vans coming up on the road as well as police looking for speeders.
One pretty exciting experience I have with my detector happened a few weeks ago, while my roommates and I were driving to LA for the weekend. We were on the I-10W, where the speed limit is 75. It was very late at night, and I have just switched my detector settings to highway and dimmed the display. A Camry pulled up behind me and was tailing me. Pretty soon we found ourselves in this little game of passing each other, going 90-100MPH. It was when I was behind the car that my radar detector started to pick up a signal. "Ka Band," it stated, and the signal was getting stronger and stronger. I quickly slowed down, and changed lanes. The signal alert picked up now, indicating that I was getting closer and closer. I saw the hidden police car, and right as I passed him, the signal just died. "Oh $hi*" I said to my roommates and looked at the rearview mirror to see the cop turn on his headlights and pull out onto the road. For a minute there, I thought he was going to pull me over, and I felt anger at my radar detector for not detecting anything sooner. But at that moment, the cop changed lanes and sped by me. I then knew that my BEL had done a wonderful job, and that the cop was going to pull the Camry over. Sure enough, way down the road, I saw the red and blue lights flashing, and pretty soon later, saw the policeman with the Camry.
That is just one of the many exciting adventures with my BEL.
Ever since I started driving, I have always wanted to purchase a radar detector. I never got around to it until about a month ago. It's already paid for itself knowing how many tickets I've avoided already because of it.
Living in Arizona, (reknown for bad drivers) there are a lot of red-light radar/cameras, photo radar vans, and police just waiting to give you a ticket. My faithful BEL 890 has given me plenty of advanced warning of photo radar vans coming up on the road as well as police looking for speeders.
One pretty exciting experience I have with my detector happened a few weeks ago, while my roommates and I were driving to LA for the weekend. We were on the I-10W, where the speed limit is 75. It was very late at night, and I have just switched my detector settings to highway and dimmed the display. A Camry pulled up behind me and was tailing me. Pretty soon we found ourselves in this little game of passing each other, going 90-100MPH. It was when I was behind the car that my radar detector started to pick up a signal. "Ka Band," it stated, and the signal was getting stronger and stronger. I quickly slowed down, and changed lanes. The signal alert picked up now, indicating that I was getting closer and closer. I saw the hidden police car, and right as I passed him, the signal just died. "Oh $hi*" I said to my roommates and looked at the rearview mirror to see the cop turn on his headlights and pull out onto the road. For a minute there, I thought he was going to pull me over, and I felt anger at my radar detector for not detecting anything sooner. But at that moment, the cop changed lanes and sped by me. I then knew that my BEL had done a wonderful job, and that the cop was going to pull the Camry over. Sure enough, way down the road, I saw the red and blue lights flashing, and pretty soon later, saw the policeman with the Camry.
That is just one of the many exciting adventures with my BEL.
