hi is anyone on here useing a road angel with the laser detector? i want to know if the laser detector is any good & has stopped you getting caught. if not then i'll probably not bother with road angel & just get a tomtom go910 instead. any advice please

 

 

didnt tell me the old police cam vans were aiming at me and i got caught lucky i got off though

 

Can't say as mines detected a laser yet but i aint been caught either!

 

Hi mate my mate had one when we went to totb at the weekend there & it was crap he is taking it back this week.there was speed cameras that were perminant & it didnt go off & the police were at the side of te road & it didnt pick the radar up it could be a faulty unit a dunno but it didnt work...we travelt 240 miles from scotland & it didnt give a peep..

 

yep i use one everyday all day for two years
the laser part never ever goes off , i think the old bill has changed the modern cameras.
but the main unit is always buzzin and you can add new cameras your self if mine broke today i would buy another defo.i am white van man with 0 points (touch wood)

by the time the laser does go off your to close to the cop anyway

 

As i say it could have been faulty but he just paid £300 from halfords for it e is pretty pissed off lol

 

Has the unit been registered and the latest database downloaded, if not that's why it didn't go off at a Gatso. Regarding the police at the side of the road if it didn't go off they didn't fire a laser gun at him!

 

Correct, if the laser goes off its probably to late, your nicked. And yes I would buy another tomorrow.

 

Laser detectors are useless for the above reasons. Laser difusers on the other hand...

 

if you read the instructions on the road angel there is a button you can press to upload a warning of the location gps area site ..hand held gun spots
it uploads next time you log on to there site

when you pass a mobile cam van or plod hand held gun

when enough users press the same button it gets updated to the gps system

then the system works better

 

I've heard it has a bit of trouble detecting through heated front screens [with the element in them]?

 

My RA 2 works fine with warnings, it sounds off at the same time as my TomTom Go500, which has the latest updates from PWGPS.

RA have brought out the Road Angel Navigator 6000, which has all the same things as RA 2 but is also a satnav as well for £249.... for what you would pay for just a RA speed detector, you'd be better to buy the Navigator 6000. http://www.blackspot.com/ Halfords also are selling them for £249.

If you decide on just a Road Angel 2 or Road Angel Plus - get one off eBay. I got my RA 2 off eBay, it's less than 9 months old for £116

 

so what i can gather from what people are saying is i might as well just buy a tomtom go 910 as its sat nav with gps camera camera sites. (i want go910 as its got america maps already on it & im going there next year)

 

i think thats what i said

but if the mobile ones are not in the EXACTLY THE SAME place then your in trouble.

today in manchester i watched as a mobile van with the cameras on the side set up and started to coin in the dosh,
so i deliberately got in his way to check my sensor i weaved all over the road to make sure he pointed at me and apart from a two fingered salute from him as i went past nothing on my road angel.

so you can put the sites on but it wont sense the mobile cam. van

 

Was it a camera van or a ANPR van?

 

Yes but don't use the TomTom camera sites there are much better available here for £2 a download or £19 a year, includes mobile sites too
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Cameras