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Bel Radar Detector going nuts in BMW

I remember reading a while back about people using Bel Radar Detectors in 
BMWs which just go nuts.  Coming back to their cars and finding their Bel 
bleeping laser and Ka? warnings.

I regularly using my illegal Bel 645STI+ in a Toyota and 3 series with only 
one unexplained false alert while on a country road with no cars in sight 
while I hungup the mobile phone (analogue) and gave a weak 2 second Ka a
lert (only 3 Ka radar units in the country and there on the other side 
of the country), but otherwise has worked perfectly.  This hasnt happened 
before or since, but do car phones screw around with RDs?

Putting the 645 in the 540i opon start up it went sick with about 
20+ seconds of laser alerts. We feel it could of been from the security 
system in the car?  Australian top line bimmers for the past year or 2 
come with a infa-red transmitting alarm system as standard (including the 
M3 with the 286 bhp engine, mmmmm), is this what comes with US models?  
The transmitter which is in the key sets off a Laser alert if shot at the 
645, but does the alarm also transmit to the key/transmitter?
If so, why when the ignition is turned on?

Anyone have this same problem?

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Stuart MacKenzie
92 318is
93 540i		Well their half mine!
91 Toyota Camry!  - Alpine - Phoenix Gold - MTX -
Really rocks, soon to go.