escort passport 8500 x50

[rosawendel]

so my fiance got me one for christmas (isn't she sweet?), and i've got it all hooked up, and i even have the hard-wire kit, so i can do that in the spring.

the only problem that i've had with it, is when i'm not on a highway, just puttering down the street, the thing seems to rattle a lot against the window as it wiggles in the bracket. now, a better design wold have had the bumpers made out of neoprene to eliminate this like my old uniden, but i would have thought that escort would have had this thing better designed.

does anyone else have one of these, does/did yours rattle too, and how do/did you fix it?

[Methanolandbrats]

Gomer it. Use a small strip of black duct tape for sound proofing. :gomer:

[Ankf00]

one of these days, I wanted to have "duct tape" called out in the B.O.M. of one of my detailed drawings... :gomer:

[racer2c]

I thought this thread was about an over 50 something escort who needs a passport. Like one of those Russian mail :) order things.

[Railbird]

Save yourself the frustration and throw it under your throttle pedal.

Less bleeping racket and more effective at keeping the ticket fairy at bay.

[Sean O'Gorman]

Mine doesn't rattle, and it has saved me from more tickets than its value. The one ticket I did get, no radar detector could've prevented.

[Methanolandbrats]

Mine doesn't rattle, and it has saved me from more tickets than its value. The one ticket I did get, no radar detector could've prevented. True. I spent over 25 years travelling at BIG speed on interstates without a ticket. I used all the tricks, tucking in the right lane, following a rabbit, etc........then I took a major ass raping by VASCAR. Totally owned and expensive. Now I just limp along at 5-10 over. Good luck.

[Sean O'Gorman]

My problem was the cop was flipping the radar detector on as cars were passing by. Usually a good detector like a Passport or Valentine One will catch this when the cars in front of you are passing by (this happened on my way home from Road America in '02 and I was able to slow in time to avoid the hidden cop), but obviously the radar detector did me no good when I was the only car on the road.

12:15 in the morning, 54 in a 35. :o

[RacinM3]

I can't believe no one has said that the only way to cure the rattling problem is to return the Escort and get a Valentine One!

[oddlycalm]

by VASCAR. Totally owned and expensive. Too true. All the radar detector and laser deflectors in the world won't prevent a low tech VASCAR or pacing bust. A prime example is how spooky good California's CHP are at pacing with a calibrated speedo. No defenses and no excuses.

One thing I used to love about the area we live was deserted roads that offered plenty of chances to ride or drive fast. With the traffic congestion we have now and the low taxes approach to road maintenance those days are gone forever. Track days, Nevada and trips East of the mountains to the high desert offer the only safe fast driving options. I've probably owned my last street iron that can bust 150mph. :(

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[rosawendel]

although i still got nailed from time to time, radar has helped save me from the "nickel & dime" tickets, and when i had a passenger (read: potential witness) it saved me from a couple of undeserved ones.

my original one was the old fuzzbuster box when i was 17. (anyone remember them? basically a knob and a light in a box about the size of half of a brick. that was it.). i've had them off & on for years.

when i got the maxima, i retired the uniden i had been using for years, and went without. i got two tickets last year (one i could have avoided with a radar detector), so my fiancee got it for me for christmas. we had a price limit for gifts this year, so the valentine was right out.

i liked that the uniden had neoprene bumpers for when the unit came into contact with the windshield, and i wondered why the escort didn't have them. the unit is all the way in on the clip, so i suppose the only recourse here (short of "urban engineering") is to bend the clip so the unit is pointing up more, bringing it into harder contact with the windshield.

thanks for the insight, and the stories are always entertaining.