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Road Angel

DropDeadFred

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Hi,

Do these gadgets really work? Would it have warned me to slow down on the A303 last weekend and prevent the 3 points I am going to get?

Any advise appreciatated. Any other recommendations?

Cheers!
 
I use my road angel over sat nav with speed camera locations...

The basics ones have all the speed camera locations and give you good warning (user can set distance) of cameras.

Latest expensive ones, receive current MOBILE CAMERA Locations on a real time basis.. which if your on 9 points must be worth the expense.
 
Not that I have the points, but just out of interest, do you know which model has the real time updates? I looked on the Road Angel website and couldn't see it anywhere...

Thanks
 
I still have a subsciption on my Road Angel Navigator 7000. These are no longer manufactured but stock is still available.
It has saved me countless times when driving in strange locations - but I usually amass points locally where mobile cameras and laser guns are used to police the newly created 30 mph speed limits......
 
Not that I have the points, but just out of interest, do you know which model has the real time updates? I looked on the Road Angel website and couldn't see it anywhere...

Quoting my own posts - it must be a Friday...

Anyway I've found it - it's called the Road Angel Professional Connected and it's GBP 294.99... Might be tempted.
 
Road Angel database did not used to be that good, If you look on the Argos Clearance shop on e bay go to shops search by shop name "Clearance Bargains" there is a snooper s4 for £42 these were £199 when they came out and they use the enigma database which is spot on.

On a separate note went to professional driving seminar this week, several of the police forces represented there say that for stealth cameras they are switching back to the self powered forward facing black boxes, the ones that look like mini Gatso's. These operate on Ku band Radar and so gps and laser detection devices cannot pick them up. So going forward if you want to be bullet proof you will need a device that detects radar too like in the old days.

I think you can bolt a Snooper S100 on to the S4 to get radar protection it then becomes an S4 Neo. Now I have found this out I also need to protect myself against radar, will report back on what devices I look at.
 
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Just seen they also have Road Angel compact for £60 and Road Angel Navigator 6000 for £65 Bargain or what? They also have the Road Angel Pro at £149.
 
Road Angel database did not used to be that good, If you look on the Argos Clearance shop on e bay go to shops search by shop name "Clearance Bargains" there is a snooper s4 for £42 these were £199 when they came out and they use the enigma database which is spot on.

On a separate note went to professional driving seminar this week, several of the police forces represented there say that for stealth cameras they are switching back to the self powered forward facing black boxes, the ones that look like mini Gatso's. These operate on Ku band Radar and so gps and laser detection devices cannot pick them up. So going forward if you want to be bullet proof you will need a device that detects radar too like in the old days.

I think you can bolt a Snooper S100 on to the S4 to get radar protection it then becomes an S4 Neo. Now I have found this out I also need to protect myself against radar, will report back on what devices I look at.

The Snooper can be very nicely integrated ino the car as done here :thumb:

Regarding radar detectors, isn't it too late bythe time your detector as 'seen' the radar, you've been clocked??
 
Road Angel Professional Connected

My Audi A4 brochure lists this device as a dealer fitted option - I enquired about it (not actually interested in the device, but as to how they would integrate/mount it). The dealership told me they were no longer fitting these as they had too many problems with reliability.

Don't know if this is a unilateral decision and as far as I know they aren't plugging anything else.

By the way, none of the Snooper products work with any 64 bit windows (at least as of 2 weeks ago)

Mike
 
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The Snooper can be very nicely integrated ino the car as done here :thumb:

Regarding radar detectors, isn't it too late bythe time your detector as 'seen' the radar, you've been clocked??

Just with laser sources , with KU and K band .. youve got loads of time :)
 
The Snooper can be very nicely integrated ino the car as done here :thumb:

Regarding radar detectors, isn't it too late bythe time your detector as 'seen' the radar, you've been clocked??

I'd forgotten how good that mod was!

Super super slick :cool:

Will
 
Just with laser sources , with KU and K band .. youve got loads of time :)
+1 Great for cities your not to sure of, but laser is a waste of time.
 
Road Angel database did not used to be that good, If you look on the Argos Clearance shop on e bay go to shops search by shop name "Clearance Bargains" there is a snooper s4 for £42 these were £199 when they came out and they use the enigma database which is spot on.

On a separate note went to professional driving seminar this week, several of the police forces represented there say that for stealth cameras they are switching back to the self powered forward facing black boxes, the ones that look like mini Gatso's. These operate on Ku band Radar and so gps and laser detection devices cannot pick them up. So going forward if you want to be bullet proof you will need a device that detects radar too like in the old days.

I think you can bolt a Snooper S100 on to the S4 to get radar protection it then becomes an S4 Neo. Now I have found this out I also need to protect myself against radar, will report back on what devices I look at.

Hi Ian - can you post a link? Must be me but I can't find this

Thanks
 
Best on the market is called speedo if the number on the speedo corresponds to the number on the road sign then you are safe.

gary
 
The Road Angel Professional Connected does not have any form of laser/radar detection built in, its purely GPS and relies on real time updates. I've got one and its great for fixed cameras but its pretty useless for mobile cameras. It warns when approaching locations used by the police for mobile traps but the few I've been through its never warned me about.
 

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