Customer Ratings & Reviews

This totally works, I use it around town and the highway. It does catch radar all around and it has saved my lead foot. I do love to go over the speed limit. You can change the settings for local or highway. It also illuminates different colors if you prefer to change from red.

Picks up siginal at a great distance from you, easy to read and understand display

Pick this up on sale to replace a VERY old Beltronics RX65. This Uniden is a signficant upgrade and is working great!!

I decided to buy the R8 because I recently had the R7 and that one had good range and worked very well so I did some research and people recommended the R8 for an even longer range and yes I have noticed the big difference I myself recommend this to anyone looking to buying a radar

Best of the best won't go bad with this bad boy trust me great investment

Best radar detector I’ve owned. Far out proformed my expectations

This is probably my 5th detector and definitely the most I ever spent. I tried the V1 and it went off constantly. If you haven't had a detector before, the trick is getting real radar alerts and no false alerts. Lots of cars out there use radar for cross traffic alerts and blind spot detection. For instance, Mazda CX's emit radar as you approach their rear. The great thing about the R8 is when you get the update program, you can load another persons presets for this detector. There are great forums with suggested base settings and more or less restrictive settings. You can review them first and then just load them. Most detectors have 20-30 presets and allow you to alert to or ignore bands. It is a long and tedious process to change each one. They even have a setting just for Mazda false alerts!! Even cooler, you can use R8 companion for IOS or Highway Radar for Android and get crowd-sourced radar maps to show you where others find speed traps in real-time. The detector also remembers those radar spots like "Your speed is" signs and over time ignores stationary radar. It also remembers where you mute a false alert. My only issue so far is that I HAD to use the USB cable that came with the detector to update it. I tried 4 other cables and none saw the R8. Not sure what that is about. Overall, well worth the money and couldn't be happier.

Awesome radar detector, very sensitive and picks up signals from far away, and reliable. I recommend it. Works well.

Amazing unit. Worth the coin? You bet it is. Saved my bacon 20 minutes after leaving the store. I was heading into a little town square and it started going off with a slow beep that was getting faster and it was telling me "Front, KA band" and the frequency. A car behind me got frustrated with my speed matching leagal and he sped around me just in time to get the cops radar and attention. He got the ticket, not me. Lots of options, I suggest watching some youtube vids on how to set it up correctly,

works perfectly. there are so many settings you can tweak and lots of guides online to help set it up. 10/10

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

This is Uniden's best radar detector so far. It has long range detection which is a must. I own the escort redline 360 and the uniden has a longer range detection.

Awesome radar very happy with it I'm glad i got somethings like this very satisfying

Hello, recently upgraded to the R8. It works pretty much out the box only filter changed two things due to my county. But overall it doesn't pick up false readings as much as the previous one did. Def recommend easy plug n play drive around a couple times and itll get the readings and filter them out after a while.

This is one of the best purchases I have ever gotten it is so worth the money. I was skeptical at first until I started using it I have very impressed with the range it has and the early warning.

This is a great radar detector that gives you enough warning to keep you safe

So far love it used in the parking lot when I was leaving Best Buy saved me two times on the way home. Really does have super far range haven't noticed too many faults alarms yet which is a good thing

This is my second r8 ive bought so far and it makes wonders. I drive from orange county to el paso and this has saved me from so many tickets. Just dont rely to much on the laser feature since all radar scanners say they detect laser, but if you get a laser notification its already to late. This is for all raders, even for this. But still major props to this radar scanner.

I could no longer afford speeding tickets! So uhmm did I slow down? No... I did not! I did purchase this bad boy that has saved me on more than one occasion. I am not telling you to speed... I'm just telling you that when you get in my car you need to respect the fact that I am indeed a racecar driver!

They can’t hide. Thing smoothly fits right near your rear view and starts chirping every time you’re about 2 minutes from a cop with his scanners on. Things awesome.