Customer Ratings & Reviews

If you use FSD in Hurry mode on the freeway (looking at you Tesla Owners) - this thing is a ticket saver. Picked up a state trooper on the interstate tucked in the rolling hills median 1/2 mile away with his Ka band on. Gave me plenty of time to shift to "standard" mode and let the car slow down for me and shift to center lane. Tons of filter options for various frequencies local to you. Highly recommend using with R8 Companion App. Yes the app is an additional $10, but trust me, its worth it. Check out vortexradar.com for recommended settings - also very helpful.

One of the best radar detectors you can buy. It detects cops from at least 2 miles away. And some instances I have even detected a signal from 3 miles away. It has arrows for both front back and the sides and if you’re download the app you will get very less falses, I love this this is amazing worth all the money. I have had escort and other brands, but nobody comes closer to this.

Former loyal Escort 360 fan. Saw the R8 on sale and read a lot of good reviews, so I decided to give it a try. I thought nothing could beat the escort, but I was wrong. With the right settings (from YouTube Vortex Radar) the R8 had significantly less false alarms than the 360 and noticed longer range with quicker alerts. R8 is now my daily driver and highly recommend it!

I love this detector. It is easy to set up and customize using their app online and a USB cable. An excellent video on YouTube went into region-specific settings and I was able to download a file and pop it in there. Works like a charm. You can spend more for a Valentine, but having had one before, not worth it.

I like this radar over the valinetine one its more accurate and has longer range it rememebrs false alarms and has gps def a recommend.

If your looking for one of the best radar detectors out there this is definitely at the top. The long range being one of its best features. This is not to say there isn’t any con’s. The first issue is that out of the box its very rough because you really have to tune it in for it not to just give you a crazy amount of false possitives. I do reccomend checking out Vortex radar youtube channel to help you dial it in. Once you get that situated I’ve had nothing but great performance from this radar.

Doesn't get any better than this! Uniden has done it again with the R8

So far works great had about 30 days saved a few unnecessary fines

This has to be the best radar detector on the market. It’s super sensitive so you know well in advance before you approach a cop, even at high speed. It can select a cop that’s like 2 miles away as long as the landscape is flat enough! Never had any issues with it, and will buy again.

Best unit I ever bought. It has all the bells and whistles. Very good detector. I recommend it.

Works great city and highway. Detects a long way aways…saved me a lot of money. Even detects when law enforcement uses scramblers (know they are there, just not where) after I figured it out, very easy to adjust l, even the advanced setting to avoid having it go off constantly due to security systems.

Range is incredible, very accurate. Wasn’t sure I would like it because I went looking for an escort redline 360 and couldn’t find one anywhere. I already have an escort 9500 that I have been really happy with and wanted to stay with that brand but no regrets after using this for my trip from south Texas to Michigan.

Outstanding best purchase I made an installation was done at Best Buy as well price was good they did a great job just wanna say thank you to Best Buy for making my experience worth it again to the team in the back great group of guys know what they doing

yes it’s expensive but think about it if it saves you from one ticket you’ll be saving money. and it’ll save you from hundreds of tickets

Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@!

Probably one of my favorite purchases in a long time. The whoop sound is perfect. And it detects amazingly. Drove from Utah to Oregon at a totally legal speed and it detected flawlessly on every cop. Picks them up a good distance away. Will definitely buy another for my other vehicles. It is note worthy it will pick up all radar so there is some false alerts. But it does a good job regulating those.

I liked the sensitivity and range, but the downside is that the auto mute is not as significantly effective, hence it’s a bit chatty for K falses, but I use it paired with r8 companion which does a great job on spot locks and reduced k falses

Happy with it so far. Easy to use and does what it says.

Great radar detector. Excellent range and quick reaction time. There is some false alerts on k band but many can be filtered out. Laser detection is useless on this detector. V1 g2 is much better at that. Build quality is disappointing especially after using valentine v1 for decades.

amazing choice for the person that what’s the best performance from a radar detector. i have had others and uniden understands what the end users wants and delivers with this product. the R8 is my preferred choice for road trips and wont make a drive with out it