Whistler XTR-550, Pros’s and Cons
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Pros’s and Cons
I have had this item for about 3 weeks and have really put it to my own personal test.
Pro’s.
Price, Very user friendly (it’s menu is easy to navigate and manage options), It’s display is much improved as I can easily see it in daylight (it does not get any sunnier than here in FL.)
Performance wise, it operates fairly well on the highway, giving you plenty of time to alert you, even on a winding road. Good K, KA and POP alert on the highway. I could not attest as to an open hill road as we do not have many of those where I live.
Con’s
In the city, my radar detector is victim of false alerts due to Building alarms and automatic door openers. I am not able to filter these out, not even with the City 2 mode engaged.
I wish, Whistler would come out, as soon as possible, with a RADAR LOCATOR, that will indicate the direction the radar/laser is coming from.
I hope somebody finds this review helpful.
Update (5/19/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.
The featured review for this product, Whistler XTR-550 Laser/Radar Detector, Red Text Display with Voice Electronics, was written by transcriptionwizard.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Tags: laser, laser detector, radar, radar detector, radar detectors, radars, value, whistler, whistler radar, whistler radar detector
Posted on: March 25, 2010
Filed under: Reviews



Reviews (3)
transcriptionwizard
February 7th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Pros’s and Cons
Rated 3 stars.
Pamela J. King
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:13 am
Whistler XTR-500
The Whistler XTR-550 Radar Detector large. It keeps me in check with my speed.
briko3
March 8th, 2010 at 2:43 am
First Ticket
Had this for about 8 hours. Told my wife all day that I hope we pass a cop so I can see how well it does it’s job. Unfortunately, I got what I asked for. Pulled over the first day and it didn’t make a sound. Nothing. Absolute silence. What a piece of crap. Luckily I wasn’t speeding more than normal and the fine wasn’t huge, but just know that you get what you pay for.
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