Customer Ratings & Reviews

I purchased this radar detector on May 13, 2023. I also own the R3 which is also a fantastic unit. I always put this baby up on my windshield and I have it configured with one Vortex Radar's .bin files. Ariel is the owner of that business and he has some very helpful information on there about pretty much every radar detector out there.

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.

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

Great range and warnings ! Awesome display/information.

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.

Love the radar looks and quality are amazing!! And the range of detection is outstanding it will start going off and then you drive way ahead and the cop with be there waiting. It truly is the best detector on the market

Extremely high performer. I purchased another one it ended up missing after my wife took a trip probably left the door unlocked so I bought another one

Works insane, high quality product and reads from a mile away

best radar detector iv ever had,love this thing,auto mute is sweet and it picks up radar a good 4-5 miles away and it has saved me more than a few times so its more than paid for itself.

This model does not have WiFi. But it’s not a deal breaker for me since I can just do firmware upgrades by connecting the radar detector to my laptop via usb. It pairs via Bluetooth very well to the R8 companion app. For recommended custom settings, check out the radar guy. Passport/valentine one use to be the best, now uniden is.

Recommed. Keeps you informed on positions of ted light cameras, speed traps, hidden or unseen law enforcement waiting to meet their quota! This unit is customizable and very useful. It picks up signals far ahead and gives you that advantage to check yourself before you get to their location.

Great detector, great range. The memory function is great and works well. Honestly no complaints after the first month of use. It's just a bit expensive is all.

As a radar detector…this is a cut above the competition really. It’s a little confusing on how to update the device firmware and GPS DB the first time, but I was able to on my first try. This is the slightly older version that doesn’t support the Uniden App, but I use the R8 Companion app and it is perfect. All four directional observability at it’s finest, sadly quality is not cheap.

It’s too good. Im detecting automatic doors and Radar Speed signs. If only the Police turned their Radars on, I would be able to detect them too. For me it is a confidence booster when you drive a red sports car.

Works great. Has definitely done its job so far. Great videoa on youtube to set it up with not many false alerts. Took a long road trip 17 hours and it did not miss a patrol!

The display is beautiful and you can easily read it in any lighting. The mount that comes with the detector is perfect. The hard and soft carrying cases are excellent as well. It auto mutes areas where it picks up false readings (automatic sliding doors, motion detectors, etc). It detects radar way before I ever see police. Most of the time so much so that I think it’s a false alert then a police car will crest the hill I’m approaching. Stop looking and buy this radar detector. This is THE radar detector.

This has not let me down. I have had alerts that have saved me tickets already. This is so much better than my old V1. Great features to keep me going for years.

This device has saved me hundreds of dollars since i installed it in my vehicle. i drive hundreds of miles a week trust me its worth the money

Detection range is ridiculous across all bands and the arrows are like a backup camera. Once you have the arrows and the second rear-facing horn you can't go back to the way it was. Bluetooth functionality has been enabled with a recent firmware update and this can connect to your phone to pair with apps to aid in detection. The only downside are K band vehicle BSM falses - which are ridiculous in crowded cities. This is in City mode with all filtering enabled as well. There are muting functions to help with this and GPS auto lockouts tend to auto lockout K band falses across the entire city over time. I leave auto lockouts enabled although some might find auto locking out an entire city might be overkill and do harm than good. To each their own though.

Im really enjoying having this race has been great worth the price I would recommend