Customer Ratings & Reviews

Probably the best portable radar on the market. Plenty of customization and regular updates.

Great range. Picks up signals my Cobras would miss. Already has paid for itself. You can customize your settings and upgrade firmware with your PC.

Great device, gets the job done! Highly recommended by others as well.

Best on the market. Long range. You’ll need to program it. It’s not usable out of the box. Mount it high on your windshield for best performance.

Safe my life multiple times and continues to it reaches quick and far

Most amazing straight out of the box, buying another.

Great overall detection of speed traps even caught laser at one point! Although its on the expensive side, it does it job.

Paid for itself in a week. Highly recommend it. Picked up the state police over 2 miles away and hidden.

Great radar! Would definitely recommend to others.

Best thing I’ve ever bought it helps me get to places faster.

Love the union all right wouldn't want any other detector picks up everything

Best Radar on the market to buy! Excellent range and always reliable!

This device is a easy to use on an everyday basis. You can customize the settings to meet your driving needs, and it does a great job of dismissing fans alarms.

This is my second R8 purchase in a year and this one crapped out after three months. Screen went completely dark and volume dropped in half while driving. Contacted Uniden support and was told to return unit to them. Cost me $50 to return detector which was randomly returned with NO type of communication about two weeks later. A note from the repair dept stated the screen was "turned off" and set to "dark mode". If that's the case, the unit has the ability to do this and turn the volume down "ALL BY ITSELF" and also Uniden support has "NO IDEA HOW TO TURN IT BACK ON AGAIN" or that this is "EVEN A THING" or "A FEATURE". Since I'm product bashing, I bought these R8's to replace three Escort MAX360 which the screens become so dim after two years you can't see them even at night, they will cost $150 each plus shipping to repair. Uniden R8 is not a reliable product, their support is apparently clueless and worthless, Escort is the same and I think both are junk. I have a Valentine V1 probably 20-25 years old still works with about the same range and arrows respond much faster than these new units. Time to give the lower tech Valentine V2 a try. That said, the R8 when it works has much better range than the 360 or V1 but needs help filtering K band (too sensitive) The V1 has slightly better range than the 360, but the arrow response is much faster than both(just old tech with limited filtering). The 360 is filtered too heavily and can ignore radar sources that should be alerted.

Excellent product!!! Would suggest to anybody looking for the best long range radar detector!!!

if you're wanting the best than this is the one for you.

Easy to set up and clean display. The alerts lets ya know way a head of time.

One of the best. Easy to set up and extremely responsive

I 1st bought the Escort Redline 360c and notice it was very laggy and the signal meter was useless on the Redline, everything is full signal even when the radar is far away, I just don't know what I pass the radar source. So I switch to this Uniden R8 and I can tell you its a way better detector. Much faster repsonse and the signal meter fades up as you get closer to the source gives you penlty of time knowing how far you are from the radar source.

My first non Cedar rd. Extremely satisfied with the rd