Re: Escort's New Passport 7500

[Lee Levitt <wheelman@shore.net>]

At 10:33 AM 9/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
RELAYER@aol.com wrote:
>
>Dan said:
>..................................................................
>The Passport almost never falses and
>has worked flawlessly for over 10 years now.  And, I have no intentions of
>trading it in any time soon.
>..................................................................
>
>It says alot to the great design of the Passport that you still use that
>detector.   Car and Driver did a radar detector test about a year ago, and
>while they tested the newest and greatest models, they threw a Passport in
>there to see how the original high performance detector did in comparison.
 It
>worked great after all these years.  If I remember correctly, it was real
>close to all the new ones in the bands it covered.  Mike Valentine really
>knows how to build a detector....now if would only lower the price to $300,
>then I could afford one.
>

I've got two of the older units...the first one has a serial number of 616
or something similar...I ordered it the day I heard about them...it was
originally a 9 volt unit, with a weird adapter. I think they upgraded my
unit when I sent it in for service a while back. The second one I bought
for my wife when she finally upgraded to a European sedan (a $aab 9000)
from Toyotal Camry. Moved it, of course, to the Audi.

Been running these units ever since in our two cars. I would like laser
coverage as I do travel a fair amount in CT and NY...but I'm not ready to
replace the Passports. I'd like to compare the new one side by side with
the original...I'm sure somebody will do so and publish a report in an auto
mag. I certainly don't have enough exposure to provide a valid test myself
<KOW>.

Lee
Lee Levitt
wheelman @ shore.net
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1990 Audi 200T, 85K
1995 Range Rover County LWB, 72K
1987 Wicked Fat Chance, 1981 Condor Custom Road Bike