Beltronics STiR Plus Installed Radar/Laser Detector

Beltronics STiR Plus Radar/Laser Speed trap Detection System

With a ban on early warning systemsstill kicking around this stealth kit could be the answer to all the problems of windscreen mounted systems, including the problems associated with heated windscreens. If you travel into Europe or Southern Ireland then this is a must have system or maybe you just want to hide the system.

With some cleaver design and careful tuning of the unit it offers outstanding performance unlike any other on the market. It is a component system allowing you to install all the parts in convenient locations and gain the advantage of a full stealth install.

This top-of-the-bill product from Beltronics combines a GPS speed camera database with highly advanced stealth radar detection. In fact, the Beltronics STi-R Plus is a speed camera locator with an extra functionality, Police Verification. The product does not include radar detection software. For countries where radar detectors are legal you can download the radar detection software into the Beltronics STi-R Plus system. Thanks to this combination you have the ultimate protection against all kinds of radar, red light cameras and average cams in whole of Europe!

The Beltronics STi-R Plus is the most advanced custom installed camera location system in combination with exclusive detector capability including X, K, Knarrow, Ka and Ka-narrow. The system is invisible for the police RDD. The combination of new technologies in combination with the use of a GPS speed camera database the Beltronics STi-R Plus reduces falsings to an absolute minimum.  This makes the Beltronics STi-R Plus the ultimate defense systemin this price band.

Features of the Beltronics STi-R Plus

• Highly advanced GPS radar system
• Speed camera database includes all kind of fixed speed controls, including red light and average speed cameras specs for whole of Europe
• Stealth radar detector, invisible for police RDD
• Includes X, K narrow and Ka narrow bands for protection against all mobile speed 
  traps in Europe
• Considerably less falsings thanks to Ka and K band segmentation
• Deleting radar software in a couple of seconds if necessary
• Adding or removing specific locations to the GPS database
• Small sized display and control unit for easy installation in the car's interior
• Alerts by speech and text
• 2 years guarantee

Specifications of the Beltronics STi-R Plus

• Operating Bands
  X-band 10.525 GHz ±25 MHz
  K-band 24.150 GHz ±100 MHz
• K-narrow bands in GHZ:
  K1: 24.050 -24.109K2: 24.110 -24.174 K3: 24.175 -24.250
  Ka-band 34.700 GHz ±1300 MHz
• Ka-narrow bands in GHz:
  Ka1:33.392 -33.704Ka2:33.704 -33.896Ka3:33.886 -34.198Ka4:34.184 -34.592Ka5:34.592 -34.808Ka6:34.806 -35.166Ka7:34.143 -35.383Ka8:35.378 -35.618Ka9:35.595 -35.835Ka10:35.830 -35.998
• Radar Receiver
  Dual-Horn Antenna Casting
  Superheterodyne, dual LNA's
  Scanning Frequency Discriminator
  Digital Signal Processing DSP
• Display Type
  280 LED Alphanumeric
  Bar Graph, Threat Display™ or Tech Display™
  Automatic, plus 4 levels of fixed brightness including full Dark
• Power Requirement
  12VDC, Negative Ground
• Sensitivity Control
  Highway
  AutoScan
  City and City NoX
  Additional Patented Technology
  AutoLock™
  Mute/AutoMute™/SmartMute™
  TotalShield™ TechnologySettings
• Settings
  Pilot
  GPS
  AutoLock
  Speed Check
  Meter
  AutoMute
  Units
  Voice Alerts, Bands, Markers
  
  

Fitting.

Take your time to plan it out before you start fitting the system, practice run all the cables first.

Radar/Laser head Fitting.

In my case I mounted the head behind the grill and mounted the unit as high as possible. Its important that it has a clear view forward if you want the laser detector to work and very important that no metal is in front of the radar head.

The Radar Detector head installed behind the grill.

You get a fair bit of cable to connect the radar/laser head to the control unit, there is a connector between the two and the connectors that allow the cable to connect to the control. This is to allow you to go through a small hole in the bulkhead first.

Display and Control unit fitting.

Once the radar/laser head is fitted you need to sort out the inside of your car and where you plan to place the control unit and display, take your time on this one, keep it low and out of sight to outsiders but in a place where you can see them

The STiR display is fitted next to the ashtray and the control unit next the instrument console.

There is a chose of holders for the Beltronics STiR display, a fitted dash mount frame or stick on mounting. I close the fitted frame and cut into the plastic trim as it not only looked better, but it looked like part of the vehicle. You get a template to make life easy in cutting the hole.

You get plenty of screws and a good mounting bracket for all the components. Tie wraps, Velcro and sticky foam are also included.

Powered Speaker and Junction Box

Both of these items were hidden down under the centre counsel, you don't need access to them in any way and the speaker is plenty load enough to deal with the trim.

Warning LED

There is a warning LED you can place anywhere to show you the status of the system.

USB Port

Decide on the best place to fit the USB update port, I went for the glove box as the best location.

Overall installing the Beltronics STiR Plus took about an three hours and was quite easy to do, it looks great in the positions I place all the kit..

GPS Antenna

This was easy to hide under a thin part of the dashboard.

Programming and activating

After fitting you need to set up the system, you need a PC to do this and the software off the Beltronics Website, it is easy to do and allows you to update the fixed locations and also the software such as which radar bands to activate. K band fro example has been segmented to help reduce false alarms and this works very well.

Can we recommend it, YES, we can.