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Anyone having trouble w/their Escort 8500?? ..mine keeps giving off KA alerts for no reason....

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Old 08-17-2005, 01:59 PM
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Default Anyone having trouble w/their Escort 8500?? ..mine keeps giving off KA alerts for no reason....

the other day one lasted 20mins..its quite annoying to say the least.
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Default Were you in traffic and with the same group of cars?

My V1 will do this if someone traveling in the same direction as me and within close proximity has a POS radar detector that "leaks". Drives me nuts!
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Yup...That's common...
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Default Like I said, a POS...>>>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2326933&amp;cat=52816&amp;t ype=19&amp;dept=3944&amp;path=0%3A3944%3A3947%3A52 816">POS radar detector</a></li></ul>
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LOL...:-)
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Default Those same cars usually have these too. ;)

<ul><li><a href="http://www.specterguard.com/lasersg.htm">POS "anti-laser" plate covers</a></li></ul>
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The rednecks down here aren't THAT smart...:-)
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not that i noticed...it happens on startup, while in the city or on the highway, with no one around.
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Hmmmm... seems like odd behavior. And sorry, don't know anything about the Escort.
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Nope - only K and X falses - KA is always spot on


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