Customer Ratings & Reviews

Detects from an alright distance. By no means would I say it’s an extended range, especially compared to any other radar detectors I’ve used in the past. My main issue aside from the false alerts would have to be that it’s supposed to block out/eliminate blind spot mirrors and vehicle avoidance systems. This is not the case and quite the opposite in my experience. It’s been tested in a 2017 Honda Civic equipped with auto braking/lane keep assist and all I can say is I’m almost positive most of the false alerts I’m getting are from my car. Have a photo that I took from the app showing nearly 10 readings in a mile distance before arriving to my destination the other night. Will try in one of my other vehicles but as the Honda is the only vehicle I take on road trips this is upsetting. One of the main reasons I purchased this radar was to use on road trips in the Honda, which I believe is useless. Unfortunately, don’t suggest anyone spend hard earned money on this piece of garbage until they update firmware or figure something else out. Even if you don’t have a newer car changes are you’ll pass one when driving. Maybe you won’t continuously have the thing alerted you down the road but spend the extra money and get one that works.

I really do have mixed feelings about this radar. I have a RAD450 and honestly, it's one of the best radars that I have ever owned from Cobra. But this one this RAD480I gives off too many false alerts even with the sens on max. Sadly my RAD450 gave out although I can still order it from a different vendor, I'm not sure I would go back to this radar. Cobra IDK what you changed in the programming from the RAD450 to the RAD480 but in all honesty this new one sucks.

Way too many false signals. There would only be 30 seconds of peace in between the constant false K and Ka alerts. This might be helpful on more suburban streets but on the highway it is pretty useless because of the amount of false signals and not giving alerts when highway patrol is sitting in the median doing nothing but watch people for speed. I get that they might not have been doing radar at the time of passing them, but if I pass 3 within a 5 mile stretch I don't think all 3 would not be using radar or lidar for speed. The only reason why I give this 2 stars is because the laser detector worked well and that is it. Also for anyone getting this for the app the app does nothing for controls for this device. In summary, this thing sucks and just use Waze.

It works but you have to learn to tell the differences between a false alert

It is good when it's a true alert but there are a lot of false alerts that comes with it. I have an escort x80 in a different car and passing by the same road this cobra is a bit jumpy. On the bright side the volt meter is on the spot for me. I wish I can return/replace it.

I bought this radar detector to replace an older one that I had for about 8 years that finally died. I had a chance to try this detector out on a 6 hour round trip drive between PA and NY. The detector did pick up numerous K band signals (I didn't bother to use X band), all of which turned out to be false alarms. The problem is that many newer cars have proximity sensors which constantly trigger the radar detector and make it impossible to detect police radars. So, I returned it and will be relying on Waze for police information.

It’s pretty bad for it price and at the same time it’s good for the price but it gives a lot of false alerts.

As far as functionality goes, this is exactly what you get. It's able to pick up the main bandwidths and laser, and with your phone, has gps lockouts and community radar reports. Except it's gotta be able to connect to your phone, and stay connected even. Every time I drove I had to wait up to 5 minutes before it finally connected, and that was manually searching for it within the app. Even then, I e often just had to drive without the GPS lockout or community features since it just refused to connect.

It has to many false alerts, in a span of 6 miles it alerts at least 10 times and all false, got fed up with it and took it down

This had false positive if you want to call it that. Radar detectors need updates to help. Cobras are a good brand just not radar detectors

It has cool features but it goes off constantly!!!

Picks up everything. Loud and no way to silence it.

Just not sure if you have any idea of technology compared to the technology needed to detect your radars signals and I just don't have any hope of the basics like that back in the days. Cobra service series surprises me except for the prices. My personal preference not for everyone!

Not very good picks up all kinds of lane assist and new features on vehicles. I had the old cobra it was great but im planning to return.

Not accurate and would go off when no cops around.

Not sensitive to radars at all, didn’t detect a radar when it was super close. Also turns of and restarts every five minutes with no reason

It was ok but it had way too many positives. I could be driving on a open highway on a bridge, and it’ll tell me it’s 18 cops on the water. No boat’s or nothing was on the water.

I will actually be returning this item tomorrow because all it does is beep and go off in my car and I don't even see any police around when it's going off it is just more aggravating than convenient or helpful

Average. Was not long range. But did job on the freeway. Not very good for in town cuz it let off signals all the time that we're unnecessary.

It has a lot of false alarms and it was just always going off and there was never any police around when it did.