Beltronics 995 Radar Detector Review

Do you do extensive driving in North American and abroad in Europe or Asia and are you searching for an International radar detector?

If so you may then want to consider the Bel Vector 995 radar detector.

The Bel V995 includes the European Ku band and has over ten times the range and sensitivity of those other cheap International radar detectors.

However, if you do most of your driving in the US and/or Canada, I would not recommend the Vector 995 as we found in our testing that the Bel RX65 and the Escort 8500 x50 are better tuned for driving in North America and is less prone to those annoying false alerts.

Some of the most frequently asked questions that we receive from clients who either own or are considering purchasing the Bel 995 are;

“Should I activate the Ku band on the Bel 995” and “Why doesn’t Bel honor the warranty for the detector that I just purchased on Ebay, Amazon or Overstock?”

There is no police agency in North America that uses Ku band so no; I would not recommend that you activate this band.

Ku is primarily used in European countries so unless you’re planning a trip on the Autobahn, keep it turned off.

As far as Beltronics and Escort not honoring the warranty for your radar detectors if you purchase it on Ebay, Amazon or from Overstock is that they require that you purchase their unit from their list of authorized dealers only so you can be assured that your Bel product is not a remanufactured unit or counterfeit.

On our blog we have a post about one customer who did decide to purchase his radar detector from Overstock and found out the hard way after receiving a speeding ticket that his detector was a re-manufactured unit that was not properly serviced and had no warranty.

To add even more salt to his wound, the detector even cost him an additional $62.00 after Overstock added their service fee to repair the detector several weeks after he purchased the unit.

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