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Re: Mounting a Valentine in a 3 Series

> Subject: RE: Mounting a Valentine in a 3 Series
> 
> David,
> 	Is there enough room to mount the detector above the rear view
> mirror? This is where I have my V1 mounted. Mike Valentine also has his

there is, but you have to put it in crooked [i believe]. a guy i work 
with has a 740i and has his unit there [non laser] and his is crooked.

> mounted there in his 750.  I have mine hard-wired so I don't have to fool
> with mounting and dismounting. The blue color strip doesn't affect
> performance unless it has any metallic substance in it.  The easiest way

i wanted to mount mine up above the mirror, also... but since mine has 
the laser detection... and the instructions explicitly tell you not to 
mount the laser detection in the "blue color" strip, i have had to mount 
mine on the driver's side *right* under the color strip.

i just didn't want to find out the hardway whether the blue strip 
filtered out something and cost me a few bucks the hard way. 

sacrafice is obvious, i lost use of my driver's side visor. answer was to 
squint or wear sunglasses :-( i could mount it over on the passenger 
side, but it is difficult to see the unit properly w/out taking my eyes 
off the road [to determine whether it is a fake hit]. 

but if Mike runs his like that... can't argue with him. i just speculate 
that he has the tools to make sure his is working though, and i don't!!!

cheers-
mcbath-

> to check for this is to look through the blue strip while sitting at a
> stop light. If the red light looks red, then you are perfectly fine in
> mounting the detector there.  The higher you mount the detector, the
> better range you will get.
> 
> Prakash Maggan
> Maggan@domain.elided
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PrakashMaggan