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Valentine One radar detector installation

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Do any of you other Model S owners use a Valentine One radar detector?

The coating on the windshield completely blocks K & KA band signals from reaching the Valentine One, even when I mount it directly behind the "open" area at the top of the windshield next to the mirror mount. Actually, it's a rather impressive coating Tesla has put on. However, it renders my Valentine One completely useless.

I'm actively looking for a solution to mount the Valentine One elsewhere and run the concealed remote display into the cabin. If anyone else is trying to do the same, please share your thoughts here.

Please note that I am not interested in other brands of radar detectors. I have tried them all, and none of them outperform my 14 year old Valentine One.

Thanks
 
Also a V1 fan, have been wondering the same. Unfortunately Valentine has never offered any of the fancier hidden/alternative mount options that some of the other brands have introduced.

No, they're a bit 'old school' in that respect. I also use the Savvy to keep the thing quite when I'm below 35, it also makes for a really easy wiring job, but I'm not sure the Model S even has an OBD port, does it?
 
Also a V1 fan, have been wondering the same. Unfortunately Valentine has never offered any of the fancier hidden/alternative mount options that some of the other brands have introduced.

I actually don't mind buying another V1 and mounting it rear-facing, and mounting a separate one front-facing. That's fine with me. It's a knowable $500 cost that I can choose to buy or not.

I looked behind the nose cone. It's probably doable, but it is very close to the radiator and I would not want to impede that functionality. Wiring should not be an issue, should be very easy to route a phone cable to the fuse box or OBDII port for the Savvy.

I'm considering taking my V1 apart to see if the detector component could be removed, and placed into a custom-designed housing that fits flush with either one of the side mirrors, or another to-be-determined location. Maybe it has separate front and rear detectors that could be separately mounted. Not sure yet. Trying to avoid this level of complexity to resolve a fairly straightforward problem.

With regards to the "open" area of the windshield, it looks like it should actually be large enough to fit the front detector portion of the V1, but the rest of the V1 body gets in the way.
 
Thanks for the heads up. I was going to get an escort smart radar to replace my old v1 but I guess I'll need the one installed in the bumper now.

V1 has too many false alerts for my taste and it seems escort is better nowadays.

I only use the V1 on the highway and freeway. There it has really never faulted for me. In the city, it's basically useless for me as cops seem to mainly use laser and I haven't yet discovered an effective laser detector.
 
Yes but if they hit you with the laser, they pretty much got you. There is little laser splash to give you advanced warning.

Given that I really only use my V1 on long highway trips, I may not need it as much with Model S, as range concerns will dictate more reasonable (though not necessarily legal) cruising speeds.
 
Yeah, the laser detection is really only good for telling you that you've just been caught. I've got a V1, and an Escort9500 in our other car, and neither of them offer any defense from laser, by the time they're going crazy, it's too late. I've never had a jammer before, but will consider it for the S, since there's a lot of use of laser around here.