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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ttocs" data-source="post: 1043025" data-attributes="member: 11896">I have decided to upgrade my radar detector really only because I got a good deal from a friend on a escort 9500ci.  I have always been happy with the whistler I had but after selling 9500's price was just too nice to pass up.  For those of you not familiar with it this has been called the #1 detector/shifter out by the experts and yes it beat the V1 too.  It has front/rear laser shifters to keep me off the lidar, a GPS feature with a database of photo radar areas and popular speed traps that I can also add to when I drive by and see one.  Finally the coolest feature is that the GPS will recognize when you are moving less the 15 mph and disable all the alerts so that it isn't blowing up as you pull into the grocery store or strip mall.  For those of you that are familiar with it I got it for much less then the $1200 retail price so why not?Ok now this is where I need your help, I can't decide,  My original idea was to just mount the new display in the clock pod like the old one.  It is easy enough to do and again the location is great.<img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/2/4582/3401/23954200015_medium.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />After some thought though I decided to make it look similar to the explorer overhead I isntalled to house the Air-ride display.  All I mean by that is that the front of the pod would be gloss black and the gloss black and would just flow into the plexi of the display to give a fairly seemless look like below.  Both of the overhead and the clock pod will have a green stripe down them as to all the other gloss pieces in the middle.<img src="http://carphotos3.cardomain.com/images/0015/59/63/15889536_medium.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I was perfectly happy with this until after some reaserch and asking my install friends they turned me onto the idea of mounting the display behind the mirror so it would shine through.  I am sure we can all agree that it looks cool, not sure if my clock will look that good...  I put a vid in to see it in action skip to 50 secs and you can se the display working.[video=youtube;4ORCgtemI3w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ORCgtemI3w[/video]cool as shit right?  see my delima?!??!?  I mean in all honesty I like it in the mirror and have a clock pod comming that isn't cut up that I could put back in there but it will take some getting use to it again and I would get the clock back until I hack it up to put something else there.What do you guys think?  in the mirror or in the pod?</blockquote>