I've heard that the blind spot monitor Honda uses for our Accords hits right in the middle of the Ka band police often use (Googling this topic mentions Acuras and Hondas as offenders). While this is a potential nuisance for other cars near or approaching us, I'm wondering if our own sensors would trigger false alarms in our cars.
I could get over the fact that other drivers may drive a little more conservatively around us if this is true, but it also means they might take their eyes off of the road to hit mute on their detectors, so... :/
Just wondering if anyone has experienced this or put off buying a detector for this reason.
Thanks all.
A little late in my response I suppose. :tongue:
Honda and Acura most often broadcast in the range of 24.195 to 24.210 GHz for BSM.
That's in the upper range of K-Band which is also used by Police as well as Automatic Door openers.
It is annoying to others and occasionally mine are annoying to me as well. I was hauling a ladder in the back one day which provided the proper reflective circumstances that gave me a constant 24.204 to 24.207 signal for hundreds of miles of driving. (Luckily I was able to mute that section of frequencies and still use the detector almost normally)
It's not enough to turn off the BSM feature in your settings. The BSM modules don't shut off when you do that.
I have been planning to remove the back bumper and see if they can be unplugged without upsetting the car too much, or maybe covered. The only drawback I see to this is that I'll probably lose Cross Traffic detection. :|
What I'd really like to find is a circuit that I can tap into that only turns on the detector when the car is started manually. (I don't want my detector lighting up or making noise when I start the car remotely.) None of the fuse block circuits do that. :frown Maybe the seat belt detection circuit could do the trick.
