Latest 6 Reviews Here is what people are saying about the Cobra XRS 9730 12 Band High Performance Digital Radar/Laser Detector
"Unbeatable detector for the price."
2008-11-05
- Reviewed By User: A2YDDV6UVNXZTH
I have had this detector for just a month and its already saved my butt for sure at least twice. Specifically once when I was speeding a considerable amount and a ticket would have been guaranteed.
It works well with lasers, I can confirm this just today. Also the Emergency Vehicle feature works well to my surprise. Its kind of useless to me, but very cool nonetheless.
I went from a cheapo whistler unit that was stolen to this one and I couldn't be happier. It is very customizable and over time, once you've figured out which frequencies are usually bogus, you can set it up so you will have almost zero false [radar] alarms.
The only thing that really bugs me is that it is very sensitive to POP, and if I leave it on, I get tons of false POP warnings. I've still yet to get a POP warning from a cop so Ill probably disable POP.
This detector is certainly worth the money and more. If you can get it for under $100, you have my full support.
"Worthless - lots of false alarms"
2008-05-05
- Reviewed By User: A5PJ33275PZV4
Bought this radar detector after my Bel radar detector bit the dust after 10 years. I've had this detector for about a month now and found it to be useless. Lots of false alarms on all bands, especially on K and Ka. I have yet to see a police car with radar after the alarms go off. I had to turn off the radar detector "detector" features (VG-2 and Spectre) as they would go off for no reason. An example: sitting in a driveway of a rural subdivision and the VG-2 alarm going off non-stop, and I live in a state (Wisconsin) that doesn't even use these types of detectors. Voice alert got annoying after awhile so I turned that off too. My old Bel detector was always on the mark with detecting police radar and rarely had false alarms. I would not recommend this product to anyone - waste of money.
"i love this radar detector"
2008-04-06
- Reviewed By User: A3PXZ674IFVFFF
This radar detector is the probably the best detector i ever owned, the range is great i live in raleigh north carolina and i do lots of highway driving and this thing saved me at least 50 times from a speeding tickets and the compass is amazing and everything on it, the only dislike is out of know where it will display pop mode when theres no cops insight, like i will be in my driveway and the detector will go off like crazy. But other then that great detector i recommend it to all my friends and family.
"phenominal"
2008-01-29
- Reviewed By User: A2017NA9P6XK1Y
Product works great... the only gripe i have is that the power cord is very elastic and pulled the detector off my dash a few times. Other than that the product is excellent
"not enough warning, compass failed"
2007-12-08
- Reviewed By User: AWPQTL9DFYU6X
Nice looking unit purchased in time for a 3,500 mile trip. Spent time traveling to Iowa from New Hampshire with the compass reading E instead of W...very frustrating..I had a magnetic compass in the car and the readings varied widely. Re-calibrated the unit probably 20 times, all to no avail. Just before item returned, it read N while parked in front of my apt. while car was actually facing S. Further, it gave me virtually no warning time on approaching police vehicles. It would finally pick up the radar, but only after the police unit was in full view. I know radar was more prevalent due to traffic stops I saw on the trip, including one car in front of me picked up by radar, cop turned around, and my unit didn't pick it up until he was in back of me and passing to get the speeder in front of me Totally unacceptable, worst radar unit I've ever owned.
I bought this product since I do a lot of highway driving on my commute to work each day. I wanted the added protection to avoid speeding tickets. The features of this product are good and I do like having it but I would not reccomend it to anybody. What I found out after buying it was that state troopers don't turn on there radar guns when sitting on the side of the highway. They wait till you fly by them and then clock you. This detecter does alert you but for the most part I've already seen the cop and slowed down and the police don't even bother clocking you at that point. I did take a long trip for Thabnkgiving and this was true thru many states. I havn't gotten a ticket and do slow slow down when it does go off but in my opinion there is no reason to buy any type of radar detector. Cops have become smart to them and there will never be a detector that can detect a turned of police radar.
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"Unbeatable detector for the price."
"Worthless - lots of false alarms"
"i love this radar detector"
"Not worth it"