Stinger DSI

[Greebo]

Any good?

Anybody got one?

Is it really worth 10 times the price of competitor's systems?

 

[Greebo]

It's been bought mainly for it's jammer capability (and speed camera database but as said, pretty much covered by decent satnavs nowadays)

It's to replace a Blinder M10 twin which has very bulky sensors and hard to fit/hide.

 

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No, considered. I was given the task to research it today as a purchase for the new car next week.

The Blinder M10 twin has seemed to work well for the last 3 years on both his cars (no tickets)

However, he thinks he needs something better????

Pretty sure it might be better than the Blinder system but not convinced it's 10x better.

However, as he said "How much is his licence worth?"

 

[Greebo]

Most people here have managed to get no tickets in the last 3 years either without needing to spend £3k on something like this (and, on a private test road obviously, without needing to drive like a granny...).

Unless he drives everywhere at 150mph it would take more than a few tickets for him to lose his license anyway!

Well he has spent the last 3 years driving an Aston Martin Vanquish and then a Lamborghini Mercialago at silly speeds...................

And one ticket past 100 mph loses your licence doesn't it?

 

[Greebo]

????

Flawed logic aside, if he really thinks he needs to spend £3k to keep his license, maybe he should consider speeding less?

Not going to happen. First time he ever took me out in the Lambo we were doing 130mph before we had left the village 30 mph signs......

 

[Greebo]

:O Thats ridiculous! As much as I swear by my speed camera detector and would reccomend it to anyone, I wouldnt dream of spending 100 times the amount I spent. This is before you even get to the legality of jammers.

I have a Snooper Neo S2 hard wired into my car and its a cracking little bit. If your approaching a speed camera and are under the limit it flashes blue and is very quiet, if your over the limit its red and very loud, simples.

I'm not sure I even see the point of laser detection any more, I'm so unfussed about it mines actually wired out of sight from outside the car and wouldnt have a chance of picking up a laser. I honestly cant remember the last time I saw one. They seem to have completley been replaced by mobile camera phones which are only as good as the database your updating from.

Thing is, it's a jammer not a detector (although it does beep and warn you). Detectors are all well and good but if going fast, by the time the detector has gone off, it will be too late.

Static cameras everybody knows where they are, it's the mobile ones which are an issue.

 

[Greebo]

Ah, I see.

'Worst my Dad is loaded' thread ever. I mean as if you really expect anyone here to have a £3k radar jammer anyway.



He sounds like a massive liability. 130 in a 30mph village, what a stand up guy.

He's not my dad, my dad is poor. He's my boss.

He's not a stand up guy as far as that goes and I agree with you. He's very scary to be a passenger with and quite irresponsible. Fair enough he is a very,very good driver but not everybody is on the road. When you are going silly fast speeds, you don't know if somebody is going to pull out on you etc.

And I am not, and will defend how he drives but I certainly can't change the way he does.

 

[Greebo]

But the mobile ones are almost never lasers any more? I cant remember the last time I saw a bobby holding a radar / laser gun that these devices can jam. Every single time the mobile forces are out round here, its mobile cameras mounted in the back of a van.

My understanding is that these work in exactly the same way as a normal camera, taking a picture of the driver and jamming would have no effect?

So hence why it's not worth the extra money and he may as well stay with what he has. Thanks. That's the kinda of info I wanted/needed.

 

[Greebo]

No he's not, he's a crap driver - driving isn't JUST about car control. A 'very very good driver' wont be found travelling at 130mph in a village with a 30mph speed limit.

Sorry, let me rephrase. He's a very technically competant driver and obviously very skilled.

But yes, he is an irresponsible crap driver.

 

[Greebo]

What, wrong info?

Well, I didn;t know it was wrong when posted but yes, thinkign about it, your right.

The only ones which won;t use laser are ones which use marks on the road a known distance apart and the time taken between the marks (if they are still used)

 

[Greebo]

I'd tell your dad to wind his neck in, 130mph in a 30mph deserves time off for bad behaviour, sounds like he needs to learn self control before trying to mitigate his stupidity when it comes to driving. I'm assuming he's a wise man in other things if he has been able to spend on a Lambo and I also assume (read take with a pinch of salt) that he's actually doing these sort of speeds anyway...

1. He's not my dad, he's my boss (as stated already)
2. Agreed he drives too fast....200mph on the A1 last year
3. Normal motorway cruising speed for him is around 130 to 160 mph
4. Nobody will tell him what to do incuding the local police who him and his lambo got a car asbo thing last year after he overtook the local counciller doing 130 and I quote "his car made my fiat shake as it went past"
5. Yes, a very good business man but he loves fast cars. Yes, he does track days and everything but he isn't going to take his supercar out every weekend in summer and just do 70 mph.
6. Even his everyday car does 156mph speed limited easily

 

[Greebo]

I think you are missing the point, the jammer wont save your license.

If you come across a plod with a laser camera and it doesnt work (due to being jammed), yet the car is clearly speeding they will inevitably set off after it - especially if its an ego boosting penis extension like a lambo.

The driver will be caught, and they will be prosecuted because during the persuit they will have got a speed reading, or enough of one to convict with film evidence. Once pulled they are likely to find the jammer and add this to the list of offences.

See....pointless. Just dont drive like a knob and there is no need for one.

They don;t work like that.

Copper points laser at car
Jammer blocks it and copper gets an error message on his gun
Alarms go off in car
Driver slows to within speed limit (or at least less than 100)
Jammer deactivates itself automatically
Copper gets a proper reading
Copper mad as he should have got the car but user error etc meant he cocked up trying to get a reading.

 

[Greebo]

I'd say, from what you write, he thinks he's a very very good driver, in fact, I'd hazzard a guess he's anything but that!

Normal cruising speed 130 - 160MPH? ********!

I've only read the first 10 or so posts, but your boss sounds like a massive bell end.

He is a good driver or very lucky. He's never crashed.

I can testify I was once out with him on the motorway and looked across at the speedo as I knew we were going fast in the Aston and we were doing 150mph

Yes, he is a *******.

Even in his Range Rover he once tried to race an s2000 round an inner ring road with roundabouts at 100mph after the driver had cut him up. This lasted until we did a 180 on one roundabout.

 

[Greebo]

Is he rude to customer service/sales people on the phone/in shops by any chance?

Not sure why, but I've painted this picture of this guy in my head now, and I hate him.

Yep, you;ve nailed him. You know him?

 

[Greebo]

What village is this? Don't see many Lambo's around Co Durham.

Now that would be telling

 

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I stopped reading at the word Greebo and just skipped to the end.

 

[Greebo]

He's no longer my boss but still has his licence so o guess it's working or perhaps he's slowed down?