Snooper Help Needed ???

[GirlRacer]

Hi, i need to buy a snooper within the next 48hrs.
So looking on ebay for a localish one i can collect.
Really want a silver bullit as have been recommended, but wont get it in time.
So for now anyone got/used a "Snooper SD715is"
have bought a tomtom700 so downloading the speed camera/blackspot thing.

Need it urgent as i collected 6 points last month,
naughty i know, but was on a sensible road & my speedo stuck

Have a few hours before this snooper ends on ebay.

Cheers XX

[Alistair C]

whats the point of a snooper these days?

If you've got a TT with cameras marked you're given warning of the cameras off your known routes.
If an officer of the law is at the side of the road with a laser - you're done before you've got chance to react. They don't use handheld radar anymore do they?

six points in one month......... unlucky.....!.......?

[terrybullwon]

I thought they got radar guns up to 300 yards?

[GirlRacer]

Its so it gives me warning of them about. I had my old TTgo when i got
caught last month. I dodnt see the car either, he was hidden away
"sneaky " but if i had been warned then i would of been ok.
As most snoopers give a mile warning of these hidden sneaks.
It wasnt a ticket thru the post, he actually pulled me over etc.
96.summit (6 points) on his little black box on his dash, but my speedo was stuck on 120,
(hope paul gets it sorted on Jimmy)
& TT aint accurite on speed.
So i need the one that gives a decent radar/lasar function with good
distance warning. Will sell it on as ordering the bullit ?

I have a lot of driving to do next week, with very little time.
Am not a mad woman behind the wheel, honest

[Alistair C]

& TT aint accurite on speed.

GPS is as near as perfect for speed as you can get - perhaps 1/2 a second behind..... but certainly alot more reliable than a speedo.

And unless things have changed recently, a Laser gun still only fires a thin beam of light out and waits on its reflection to calculate speed. The police only pull the trigger on a laser when they've got it trained on a car (usually the number plate so the beam is morelikely to bounce back). As a result, picking up a laser beam which hasn't been pointed at your car is pretty unlikely. If it has been pointed at your car, by the time your foot moves from the accelerator to the brake, the laser beam has already got back to the police and you're nailed.

Radar guns send out radar waves continually - and these bounce all over the place allowing detectors to pick up the scatter. But I didn't think they're used much anymore except it GATSOs?

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong - I looked into this several years ago and went for the TomTom instead as my warning system (it also has the advantage of pointing out my nearest McDonalds'!)

[GirlRacer]

went for the TomTom instead as my warning system (it also has the advantage of pointing out my nearest McDonalds'!)

my advantage of tt700 i can talk on my mobile as the ear things hurt
as only got little ear holes & can text. But my main reason is i cant understand
map reading

[Alistair C]

my advantage of tt700 i can talk on my mobile as the ear things hurt
as only got little ear holes & can text.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh????? what does any of that mean? What has a tomtom got to do with texting and little ear holes?????

[Alistair C]

can you get little ears enlarged to enable headset use?

perhaps this man could work some magic.......?

[GirlRacer]

TT700 + bluetooth = phonecalls/handsfree & text

back to the speed thing, my bf got 3 points by a handheld hair dryer.
Copper was sitting with the gun with his arm resting on the window ???
(cruiser, but also unmarked coppers use them)

imho, speed limits should be reviewed, as stopping/breaking distances will prob
be different now, as cars are a lot better now *Rant Over*

[Markarina]

got to go with Alastair on this, these days Laser is the weapon of choice for the boys in blue, which renders most detectors useless, I would go for a GPS system. Got a Road Angel and their database has the most common mobile speed trap locations in it.

[GirlRacer]

won a snooper, collect it 2morro.
Will do till i get a silver bullit

now what other precautions do i need for my trip
camoflage maybe.............. just kiddin, to much Benylin