I have driven my 2011 S5 one day. I have a Valentine One radar detector which never stopped beeping (definitely not police) in this car. Does anyone know of any radar/signal which is emitted by the car causing the radar detector to go off?

 

I have an A5 and a V1....Valetine One rep told me the "Driver Assist" option is using K band in the Audi. I disabled (Simple reprogram via button in V1 - turn OFF J field for POP) the POP feature in my V1 and now all seems good again. You will lose the ability to pickup POP radar. But the V1 is not going "NUTS" anymore and usable again.

JMS

 

Its the Audi Lane Assist which is broadcasting on the K band that your V1 is picking up. You can configure the V1 to turn K band off

https://www.audiforums.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=131387

 

Just get the K40 radar detector RL360, it comes with front and rear radar and you can go into the menu option and turn off specific bands either in the front or rear reciever. Best thing about it is you still will detect that band you turn off in your other reciever. With the V1 you will not detect K band if you turn it off. I have it in my S5 love it. Check it out

 

It is the "lane assist" or "driver assist" that is using K band, but I dont want to lose all K BAnd so I have just disabled the POP feature. That is what Valentine recommended, the POP feature was picking up the "false alarm" sent from the audit . I do lose the POP feature.

Here is what I found on the WEB about POP.............So maybe losing POP aint so bad.

POP Radar Test

MPH Industries first introduced POP radar technology (also known as the Super Bee) in its radar guns in 1999 as a way to defeat radar detectors. Today MPH's radar guns while operating in POP mode, can defeat over 85% of the radar detectors in use today.

POP mode works by sending out a quick burst of pulse radar at approximately 67 milliseconds. MPH Industries admits that while in this mode, that the displayed speed of a vehicle may not be accurate. They recommend that the officer only use this mode to obtain an estimate of speed from the target vehicle, establish a vehicle tracking history, and then switch to normal mode to obtain the exact speed.

Therefore POP mode is seldom, if ever used by law enforcement and should not be a major concern as an "important feature" in considering your radar detector.

In fact, most radar detectors that have the POP mode have it disabled by default, as activating POP on detectors, opens it up to receive a false alerts.