dutchy2.0turbo

Anybody using the Escort Solo S2 cordless radar detector, or should I just go with the Passport 8500

Gorobei

I wouldn't recommend cordless. You just won't get the same effectiveness imo.

mjposner

Get the Escort 8500 much more sensitive, and hard wire with simple telephone cord.

Razzy

I have a Solo S2. Can't complain about the sensitivity. Picks up bogeys well enough for me. The LCD is very hard to read though. It washes out in many light conditions.

MB The Body

performance is immensely better and the wire is completely hidden. Paying more for a worse detector is not a good idea!

From the front view all I see if the face of the detector so the wire is completely hidden to me:
<img src="http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~mi167268/Car/detector.jpg">

Con

i hvae the 8500.

i'm selling that and gettin valentine.

i believe its better imo

MB The Body

of the top of my head I don't know which is the latest, but the latest has fixed the POP false problems.

Anyway the X50 is superior to the V1... keep it!

dutchy2.0turbo

How difficult is it to hardwire it MB?

MB The Body

my friend did it for me, but it didn't appear to difficult. It's a phone wire from the detector hidden in the headliner and a-pillar (neither had to be removed to get the wire behinid them), and then into the fuse panel. At the other end of the phone wire he simply cut off the phone conneciton and took the appropriate wires (don't remember which of the 4 colored wires inside a phone cable) and connected that to a fuse tap. The fuse tap goes into the fuse panel and gives you "2 fuse locations". In location 1 you stick back in the original fuse that was in the panel. In location 2 you stick a new fuse. Out of location 2 is a wire and that's what meets up with the phone cord. The fuse we chose was reverse lights/mirror compass which has worked great and is switched with the car's ignition.

Audi Loyalist

I like how the hidden wires clear your view of that sweet lookin' RS6