Problem with passport 8500! Anyone else experience this?
Originally Posted by sstony
i experience it also. it used to happen only when hitting 4k rpm's-now it does it whenever i press the gas pretty good. i've also noticed it will do it when i adjust my driver's side mirror, up only. mines plugged into my accessory outlet--someone told me hardwiring their's fixed the problem. i'm gonna try it and if not, prolly get a valentine.
i never got a speeding ticket in this car til i got this radar detector
i never got a speeding ticket in this car til i got this radar detector
Mines doing this too. Nothing was changed on the car. Like everyone else, it worked fine for the first two years. Its to the point to where I just stopped using it because I could be cruising in 6th gear at 1500rpm and it would go off about every 10 seconds or just never stop going off at all. Glad to see its a fix for this.
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I have an X50, had it for maybe 3 months now, haven't gotten a single fake laser alert. I've only gotten one laser alert in total, and it was quite real (I was already slowing down anyway, having seen him before he lasered me)
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No problems with mine, havent heard the laser unless a cop is sitting on the side of the road doing it.......and it's saved me TWICE with laser.......the key is you MUST hit the brakes AS SOON as that **** goes off......like almost INSTANT, the laser gun needs two hits..........a 1st and then a 2nd, if you can get it before that 2nd, you're good.
I was doing 65mph in a 55, the first time and almost LOCKED up the tires (no abs) I swear the cop gave me the 'bad' look
the second time i was more like 75...
I was doing 65mph in a 55, the first time and almost LOCKED up the tires (no abs) I swear the cop gave me the 'bad' look
the second time i was more like 75...
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I was reading Radarforums and one of the guys said that using an in-line noise filter with his X50 stopped his falses. I know I'm kind of bringing this thread back, but hopefully that information will help some of you.
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Originally Posted by dragonrage
I was reading Radarforums and one of the guys said that using an in-line noise filter with his X50 stopped his falses. I know I'm kind of bringing this thread back, but hopefully that information will help some of you.
Mine was doing this for a long time. Sometimes it was worse than others for no reason, but I think when it was wet out it was worse. The last month has been especially bad, it would do it whenever I touched the throttle at all. Last weekend I changed my plugs and found a burnt sparkplug wire. I think it may have been arcing on the header primary. Well I switched it out and I haven't had the laser go off since. So my theory is the arcing was creating some kind of electrical in the radar detectors internals.
