[Ickle Angel]

Im with Eddie though. If i drove(which i dont) then I would much rather spend my money on something more useful than a car amp

[clublander]

i dont have an amp just better speakers

[Eddie]

Just as long as you don't black out your windowws, lower the suspension etc etc etc, oh yeah - you're a twat if your car makes a 'boom, boom, boom' bass noise as it goes along!

[Ickle Angel]

Yeah when your in a traffic jam and all you here is boom boom. That is so annoying

[Chris]

Apparently there are five amps in my car.
Nice.

[Eddie]

I totally agree, and the funniest thing is, these people think they're cool! Idiots

[Eddie]

I still have the original tape player in my car, no new speakers on nowt - although, the front left one has blown.

[LastChanc]

I can admit to having changed the head unit in mine and to fitting a CD changer... as well as a hands-free kit fer mah phone and a speed camera detector. Though I wouldn't say any of it was un-nesserccery (sp?) I tend to drive around a lot and most my music is on CD. Ain't done the black-out windows and fitting amps thing though. Just never had the urge (or money)...

[Ickle Angel]

My ex used to have a mp3 player in his which he was always very proud of. They had only just come out at the time

[Sidders]

A speed camera detector? How do they work?

[Tom Holt]

i would suppose they detect speed cameras :duh!:

[Sidders]

That tells me what it does, not how it works. :duh!:

[Tom Holt]

ah well that i cant do i left my brain at school

[MK Chris]

What you're on about is a snooper, which detects signals that speed cameras give out I think - it also works for cop cars that have their radar on.

http://www.radar-detectors.co.uk/

[Adam]

Aren't they planning to make them illegal?

[MK Chris]

I dunno the 'official' thinking behind them is that because speed cameras are generally put in accident hot spots, snoopers will cause people to slow down at these hot spots, thereby reducing road traffic accidents. You can get them in Halfords at the moment.

[Tom Holt]

they're sold at halfords??? i thought they were illegal

[LastChanc]

Nah, they're not illegal in this country (yet...)

[img]http://www.speedcamerasuk.com/copyright ... onsole.jpg[/img]

There's some more information about 'em here at http://www.speedcameras.uk

Though what it doesn't say there is that it does also trigger on the handheld laser guns... (And no, I didn't pay that much fer it when I got it when they first came out either)

[Tom Holt]

i heard the government are trying to get it made illegal, i suppose that hasn't been done yet.

[LastChanc]

I hope it dun happen either... I've had enough of them making my previous activities illegal without adding this to the list...

[Tom Holt]

lol - in that case my l;ist must be massive. but we won't be going there... *cough cough*

[tombugler]

They work on GPS- the little box on the dash is traced by a satellite that "knows" where the cameras etc are. When you get close to one it send a signal to your roadangel, snooper, whatever to warn you. The ones that detect guns pick up the laser scatter as it bounces off the car in front, then sends a signal to jam the transmission as you go past. The gov't is trying to make snoopers etc illegal saying that people use them and slow down when they get to a speed camera. I personally thought the whole point of speed cameras WAS to slow people down...

Anyone know if it's possible for your speed to be detected by a police car going in the opposite direction?

[Tom Holt]

Anyone know if it's possible for your speed to be detected by a police car going in the opposite direction?

Probably not, why? were you the one speeding?

[LastChanc]

They work on GPS- the little box on the dash is traced by a satellite that "knows" where the cameras etc are. When you get close to one it send a signal to your roadangel, snooper, whatever to warn you. The ones that detect guns pick up the laser scatter as it bounces off the car in front, then sends a signal to jam the transmission as you go past. The gov't is trying to make snoopers etc illegal saying that people use them and slow down when they get to a speed camera. I personally thought the whole point of speed cameras WAS to slow people down...

I hope that's the layman's version cuz otherwise I'd hate to point out "the little box on the dash" actually does nothing of the sort...

And what's with the car in front? I've never needed anything in front to detect something on any of the K-bands or the laser...

Anyone know if it's possible for your speed to be detected by a police car going in the opposite direction?

Theoretically yeah it is. Though I think they'd just guess until they were travelling in the same direction basing their assumption on the movement of traffic around you...

[tombugler]

Anyone know if it's possible for your speed to be detected by a police car going in the opposite direction?

Probably not, why? were you the one speeding?

Yeah I was doing 62 in what I thought was a 60, but it turned out to be a 50. Cop car went the other way, so im crapping myself everytime I get a "private" letter thru the door now!