LXedit

Traded in my LX470 for a 2003 SC430 and i could not be happier. It's silver with the ecru interior, keeping it clean should be a challenge. Has anyone installed a radar detector in the car ? The dealer wanted $900 and that seemed high. Do installed detectors work better than the regular ones? I had the car an hour and already got pulled over. Luckly the cop took it easy on me.

tfischer

Don't buy one of those systems that are installed in the grill and back bumper. Besides being of low quality to start with, they are too low to be effective.

Buy a Valentine One and run a direct wire connection to the switched power cables inside the light cluster at the top center of the windshield. I have the ecru interior, and I substituted a simple Radio Shack white cord instead of the black one Valentine give you. Then mount the detector on the visor or on the windshield. (Both are supplied by Valentine.)

See the valentine one web page for a description of the problems with "built-in" systems, and see other threads here on hooking up the cord to the correct power wires inside the light cluster.

Mine has been mounted with the suction cup visor to the top of the windshield to the right of the mirror for two years, and the system works great.

With a car as low to the ground as the SC430, you need a good detector with long range, and you need it mounted as high up as you can get. For that, there is only one choice.

I never leave home without it.

Larry

Tim is right Go for the V1. Accept no subsitutes !

LXedit

Thanks guys! Ill let you know how it goes. I took the car back to the dealer today because i kept finding sand all over the place, gas cap, under the hood, under the drop top, etc... The dealer said that it may have come from where it was stored. Seems strange but they said they would get it all out of the car, but couldnt give it back for a couple of days.