So I got fingered with laser today...in town. F that. And I detected cops shooting laser out on I94 by M39 several weeks ago. I dunno if departments are feeling cash-strapped because ticketing is down in the Waze era, but I'm not taking this escalation sitting down, I'll tell you that. I ran laser jammers a few years ago, but never replaced them after I sold that car, largely because I wasn't seeing laser gun use spread across my ususal routes. Now, however, they've brought the war to my doorstep, the grotty bastards.

Looking at the front end of Giulia, it seems there's just not anywhere good to mount typical jammer heads without making modifications to the car, e.g. cutting the grill.

I suppose Stinger fiber optic heads would be the best choice, to mount at the tops of the lower grill lobes, but I'm not clear on how the heads get secured in place and if getting those things installed is really something suitable for my meagre skills and impatient temperament!

Does anyone have any experience or insight in getting the Giulia protected?

I was trying to do 60-130 runs last Friday night in Mexico of course and I never fully got to hammer it because of traffic. Even at 2 am it’s just tough around here in Mexico. I would get to 120 and be up on cars so I would have to back off. Gotta be safe. Not everyone has good brakes on the road...Anyway on one of my slow downs passed a “federali” going about 110 and even with me slowing down cause I knew i was caught, it still took him like 3 miles to get up to me. Pulls me over. First thing he says is “turn your car off. It’s a lot faster than ours”. Lol. They were very fair. Very professional. Asked me if I was drinking etc. I explained I was “tuning” the car and they said “we didn’t clock you but we can tell you were going fast. Slow down. Be safe. Have a nice day”. So my point is I would try a laser if it works then all is good. If it doesn’t hopefully you get a cop that’s a car guy.

 

Jammers work...when cops are shooting laser. Needless to say, having jammers would have done nothing either way in your situation.

When I had Blinder M900s on the Subie, I had several saves, a couple pretty dramatic, including one where I watched the cop looking quizzically at his gun then at me as I drove by. Jammers work.

 

This may be really helpful. These guys set the cannonball record. Some things aren't really relevant but others may address your concerns. They specifically called out the AL Priority and TMG.

 

Wow, that was some intense prep on the C-ball car!

My difficulty is not in figuring which jammers are generally the best, but rather which ones are specifically the best for the Giulia, my needs, and my means.

ALP may well be the ones; supporting twin receiver/sender heads and a smaller receive-only head array, it may be the most practical system for Giulia’s tri-lobe grill. Maybe Stingers would be the most slick mount, but both buy-in cost andmount engineering cost are almost certainly too high for me. Even the cost of mounting a $1.4k ALP system may be too much; we’ll see.

 

I suppose there is a balance between the cost of the system versus the cost of a speeding ticket including lawyer and fighting it. A good radar detector can only do so much and it sounds like the jammers helped a bit.

I only shared it just because I thought it was kind of interesting to learn all the tactics they used to be able to travel up to 200 mph on the freeway and set a record crossing the country without being caught.