Customer Ratings & Reviews

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 is a high quality radar detector! It works just perfectly when needed! I highly recommend the Uniden R8 radar detector!

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

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

Superior range. Lots of options and great filters.

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.

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

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

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

Good performance for all time auto mode two three mile

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

I use this and Waze while driving. I normally dislike radar detectors due to the false alerts and loud sounds they make. The R8 won my heart when I could mute via GPS location to avoid false alerts forever. I also love the fact I can plug it into my computer to do my settings because there are just so many, plus you can share your settings file with others!

Works great. Expensive for what it is. Use a Uniden R7 in my other vehicles and my toy exotic car has the R8. R8 has more range but if you're on a budget R7 is 90% of this detector for 1/3rd of the money. If money's no object and don't want a hardwired system this is it.

Never owned a radar dectector in the past. Bought this when i picked up my new car. I drove back to MA from DC, and got to test this out drving up I-95. Very straight forward to operate the unit ,and the display makes it very easy to decipher the direction/type of alert. Most alerts were detected well ahead of time and the direction arrows were quite accurate. Very happy with this purchase.

bought this radar detector to use on my trip to Colorado. Let me tell you this is probably the best radar detector I have ever used. Sensitivity settings are excellent and the distance it detects is superb - it does so quickly too so that you know what's around. There is an auto setting for city driving that lowers the sensitivity to keep it detecting sensors at stores. I highly recommend this detector - it looks good - comes with a quality windshield mount - and works like a charm.

I’ve owned atleast 6 radar detectors (that i can remember) over the last 10 years and this beats them all without a doubt. The only other radar that can compete with it, is its younger brother-the R7. I drive roughly 2500 miles per week and i don’t trust any other detector to keep me safe from a sneaky cop. This thing literally picks them up 10-15 miles away sometimes, depending on the terrain/obstacles between us. Theres been times where i thought i was getting false alerts because i was so far away from the cop when i got the initial alert. Gives you plenty of time to get yourself in check. Definitely pricey, but a truly remarkable radar detector

The best radar detector period. Buy one at a great price

Always stayed away from Uniden as a brand and I was wrong. Smartest most accurate detector that I have ever owned.