Recent content by jvp

No need. The battery tenders do the job nicely. :-)

Yes but if the hood is popped, you can ... open it further and slap a set of jumper cables on it. Right? :) Both my car and truck sit with tenders on them, even if it's just overnight. GM cars "wake up" too frequently when I walk by them (in the house). So keeping a tender on them is...

That's certainly changed because I've been pulled over purely from the detector. He had a Spectre2 detector detector and popped me.

I can't use Blendmounts even as nice as they are. Detectors are illegal in VA so mine has to stay as tucked in and out of sight as possible. Blends hang the detectors out for everyone to see, very, very easily.

<snobby voice> You suhh are a lifesaver! </snob> Seriously, thanks much for that. I'm so inexperienced with using the V1 app on my phone, I hadn't even realized that stuff was there. Bam. No more (false) Ka's in my car.

Fully updated to the October, 2025 version. Also not keen on having any intelligence running on the phone. I need the detector to be self-contained. There's something on the car that needs to be unplugged and I'll bet a dollar it's the stupid forward facing RADAR.

Interesting. The range you're mentioning is K, not Ka band. And it's the Ka band alert that's going off.

I'll have to poke around with the V1 app and see if I can get it to block that range. Thanks for that. Nope. Manual transmission.

Here's another one that I didn't have in my '23: a constant false Ka band signal that's tripping off my V1. My detector is basically useless in the car with it constantly alerting to a false Ka. It's originating from the front end of the car somewhere. This is... bad.

You're entitled to your opinion. ...as wrong as it may be. :p

The mic button is working though. It ducks the music playing and the Siri *BING* plays with the little squiggly ball in the bottom of the screen telling you that Siri is listening. But whatever I'm saying doesn't get sent from the actual mic --> phone.

You do you. You won't catch me dead in anything other than a black interior. It's the only correct color.

I just revieved my new '26 5BW from Dustin at Sewell. So far: 169 miles on the odo and counting down till the big 500. This isn't the first GM vehicle I've had with the catastrophic Google Auto interface, so I'm accustomed to its myriad of problems, idiosyncracies, and general pains in the...

When the sun is out (hopefully?) tomorrow. Today's just been an overcast bleah of a day. The color looks pretty good in the shade but it POPS in the sun. The interior is black, suede, semi-analine seats.

A little something something arrived this morning. An early Christmas present to myself.