Uniden R7 Extreme Long Range Laser Radar Detector

I used radar detectors in the 80's and 90's a lot. Haven't used one for awhile but picked up a weekend driver and decided to add radar. I did a lot of research, watched a lot of reviews and for what I needed this seemed to be the best option. I have been running it for about a month or two and I am not all that impressed for the money. Range: So my city has a lot of traffic cams and it never seems to pick them up in front of the car and not that far in advance. It will go full tilt to the sides and rear. So I thought well something must be up with the placement or my windshield. I moved it around and did have hits in front but never anything as far as others have reported. Nothing that would allow me to adjust speed in time should I need that. Basically just to let me know I was hit. I really had to seek out Ka band in my area just not a lot of PD in the area it would seem. When I finally found one it was maybe three or four blocks out when it alerted ahead of me but in a slow congested area. I haven't found confidence in it yet that it will give me adequate notification yet. Detection: So I had silenced K band thinking it was mainly auto doors and shopping centers. I went by a stationary speed display in a construction zone and nothing. So I turned K band back on and went through a few times. The signal strength was always really week even right on top of the unit on the side of the road it was maybe two bars. So again not a lot of faith this thing is picking up well. It did save me once with the preprogrammed speed cameras, they had a bit of trap set up at a significant speed limit change from 45 to 25 and then a speed camera. This did alert to a camera ahead but again wasn't that far ahead. Just enough time to hit the breaks and drop down to the changed speed limit, barely. I have left it in highway mode all the time as well. Overall not impressed with it. I had old Passports and Escorts in the 80's and 90's that did a better job. Maybe I need to tweak the settings, maybe my car has something special about it that doesn't allow it to pick up radar being used out there. For the price range I expected much, much better. So for the moment it's just there and an expensive toy. The old detectors out of the box did a better job then this one. One other thing is the speed display is not the area posted speed limit. It's your speed, which can be useful for keeping your eyes on the road. But, I thought it was giving you the posted speed limit for that part of the road when I purchased it. The single cup suction mount is great. Hasn't moved since I put it up and is very stable. No issues on that side and like how firm it keeps the unit in place. I probably would not go with this one again and look at some other options out there and maybe will. I'll do more testing maybe a factory reset of all functions and do some runs again. But for now no faith in it that it will pick up radar out there since it's not grabbing much and not that far in advance. For reference I am using this on an F Type.