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X5Boston · 10th July 2002, 21:02

Radar jammers do NOT work. All of those systems that claim to make you car invisible are put snakeoil meant to bring in the uninformed. These passive systems supposidly reflect back garbage info to "confuse" police radar. Any claims made about them have been proven to be false Any systems that could actively jam a signal would be illegal by FCC standards since they produce emissions that could interfere with other radio bands. Systems like these do exist but they are very expensive, you need to build it yourself (its not illegal to sell the plans), and don't work with all current bands.

If you check the claims that state they the company will pay for any tickets, you'll notice they are carefully worded. Most of the time they will only pay if you are doing less than 15MPH over the posted speed limit. I've noticed as a general rule, most police will not pull over a vehicle doing 10MPH - 15MPH over the limit if they doing not stand out and going with the flow. A nice sneaky way of reducing their liability while still bringing in the deluded.

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X5Boston Member, Sport: On DSC: On (>100 posts) Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Cambridge, Taxachusetts Age: 31 Posts: 162 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Radar jammers do NOT work. All of those systems that claim to make you car invisible are put snakeoil meant to bring in the uninformed. These passive systems supposidly reflect back garbage info to "confuse" police radar. Any claims made about them have been proven to be false Any systems that could actively jam a signal would be illegal by FCC standards since they produce emissions that could interfere with other radio bands. Systems like these do exist but they are very expensive, you need to build it yourself (its not illegal to sell the plans), and don't work with all current bands. If you check the claims that state they the company will pay for any tickets, you'll notice they are carefully worded. Most of the time they will only pay if you are doing less than 15MPH over the posted speed limit. I've noticed as a general rule, most police will not pull over a vehicle doing 10MPH - 15MPH over the limit if they doing not stand out and going with the flow. A nice sneaky way of reducing their liability while still bringing in the deluded. __________________ 2002 X5 4.6is Silver/Black (AKA M4 3/4) 2007 X5 4.8i Gray/Beige (On Order)