Customers are pleased with the R3 DSP Long Range Radar and Laser Detector, particularly its impressive range, performance comparable to the R7, and comprehensive radar detection capabilities. Many find it accurate and easy to use, especially considering the price. While false alarms are a concern for some, the device's GPS functionality and other features are appreciated, and the display is easy to read. The size is also seen as an improvement over the R7.
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Not the best but a good unit for the price. Recommend if you don’t have 500-700 dollars for the better units. Easy to use and setup. Has notified me and helped me avoid some potential tickets.
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Good product, price worth every penny, my 1st trip, it is captured 2 hidden police cruisers. it helps you maintain your speed as well. At least when radar detects you have a time to check your speed and continue your travel.
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This radar picks up everything very well and everything about it is awesome everything works very well perfect radar for the up close to the 300 dollar range 5 stars anyday
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This is the best value radar detector available today. It is in the middle as far as price and works great for every day driving. I have used the same model in another car for 3 years without issue and when it came time to replace an older Passport, I did not hesitate to purchase this unit again,
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Does a great job at eliminating false alerts. Quality is solid, love the color display, its super clear, and customizable. I previously had a cobra 480 and this is far superior
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Very Accurate and gives ample time to slow down before actually seeing a police. Mainly picks up Kband and KaBand for me. Solid radar for the price have had it for about 4 months now.
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I absolutely love this radar detector. Once I turned off K band it never has false positives. Got nailed for 4 speeding tickets in about 3 months and have gotten none since. The only thing I wish it had once directional arrows but I didn't want to spend the extra dough on the R7. I pick up cops miles away on the highway. I can go 85mph and not worry any more.
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This scanner was very easy to set up and understand. The mute button on the 12 volt connector is very handy. When it detected a band, it was easy to tell which band. The display facing the cabin is very clear and easy to read.
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This radar detector came in handy during my recent cross country road trip. Prior to purchasing this it had been quite a few years since I'd regularly run a radar detector so I had to do a good amount of research to figure out a good one in today's market. Everywhere I looked online listed this as either their number one or ranked it near the top, only below other ones that were in a much higher price bracket. The arguments made for why it deserved that number one spot were well thought out so I was sold, I bought the detector and I also bought the hardwire install kit from Uniden.
(For the hardwire- I stole the power from a cigarette lighter that shut off with the car, ran the mute button up through the dash to where I had an unused hole, and ran the cord for the radar detector tucked in along the edge of my dash trim until I came out at a good spot for the plug to exit onto my dashboard. All in all, it was probably one of the easier installs I've ever done with an aftermarket piece to any car, ever.)
I'll be honest, on day one of my trip, I didn't love it. It was annoying. I had so many false alerts and even though I wasn't speeding I still found myself having that knee-jerk reaction of "oh shoot" and braking or letting off the gas and slowing down that way. I would have hated to be driving behind me... luckily there wasn't a lot of traffic and no one really right behind me for the most part, but still. I tried fiddling with the settings some as I stopped for gas and food but felt like there were too many options and too much that I didn’t understand. The book had been no help, it was like reading a textbook for a subject you knew next to nothing about. I gave up and turned the volume down and the radio up. That defeated the point of having it but it was so noisy and so annoying. When I stopped that first night I did a little more reading online and found some material on what different settings meant and what settings were recommended based on everything from what parts of the country you drove in to what type of driving you primarily did. Once everything was explained in layman's terms I was able to make my own decisions on what settings to program. I've since made a few tweaks as I've driven with it but for the most part once I understood it all I was able to shut off a lot of the excess noises and narrow down the important alarms. You can customize everything on this radar detector from the alarms that go off, to the tone of said alarms, to the color of the screen, what said screen shows normally, how bright the screen is and even have it dim at a set time of the day/night. You can program it to not alarm when you are driving below a certain speed or to not alarm for red light cameras above a certain speed, like if you are on the interstate passing above surface streets. There are so many settings with so many options. So much of it meant so little to me. The best advice I can give with this purchase is to check out https://www.vortexradar.com/2017/06/how-to-program-and-set-up-your-uniden-r1-and-r3/ and do a little reading up of your own until you have a basic understanding of the multitude of choices you're presented with.
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Amazing range out of this unit. If you set it right, you will get very little to no false alerts. People need to understand that this is not a cop detector. This is a radar detector so if you see a cop right in front of you but your rd is not alerting its because the office is not running his radar. I recommend checking out vortexradar on youtube to see full review, and settings, etc.
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It does what it says it does. It works quite well to be exact. the wife says its annoying. but after she learned about the button on the power connector its not so bad. Install is easy, and it is easy to read.
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I am providing this rating because I have not had any issues with this item so far. I haven't really utilized it to its capacity; but once I do, I will come back and update my response. I do like the features of GPS enable, speed notification and that it doesn't provide false hits, as of yet.
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Really simple to use. It does the job and is reliable. The mounting bracket also never comes off which I’ve had issues on other radars. Best bang for your buck and will save you on speeding tickets