I have some questions

MCs = easy target. I worried about driving long distances and having uncle sam target me off.

Has anyone installed them? Have a picture and how well does it work? Curiousity is killing the cat on this one!

 

The Lidatek is a lidar jammer, right?
I have the bel installed, and a friend has the Blinder.

 

Wierd u would figure that someone might use it

 

I've heard great things about the Blinder X-treme systems like the M-20. I dont have any laser jamming stuff on my car (yet) but from what I've read Blinder is the best. However the Lidatek is a close second and is supposed to be smaller and a little easier to install. Personally on such a product i would take performance over ease of install. Either way go to www.radarbusters.com he sells and reviewed both systems, along with the bel and many other radar-laser stuff. Also look into the "Veil coating" it is supposed to work pretty good. I'll keep watching this thread i'd like to see where people have installed the Lidar jammer/detectors.

 

Just used a buddy's machine shop to fabricate some custom mounts to help someone fit a pair of Blinder M-20's on a MCS stock grill.

Will post pics later, but won't ID the car that has it as the owner of the MCS doesn't want to advertise that he has one of these in his Mini.

It turned out to be a totally stealth install in the lower grill slots (though we had to grind off some plastic tabs in the grill slot to make the sender units fit and some drilling through the dummy vents of the grill and 4 holes drilled in the lower lip sheet metal were required to anchor the custom mounting plates) and they are not visible unless you get down on your knees. Space is a bit tight but it does clear the front radiator with room to spare as the emitters though only 104mm wide x 18 mm high, they are about 51 mm deep and require a location with some space to mount them completely horizontally and parallel to each other and the axis of the car. Some fine tuning on the aligment has to be done, but it works pretty well without much tweaking/banging around.

Unfortunately, there are few other mounting options on the MCS that are viable. I suppose you could mount the IR emitters in the lower air intake area but you'd have to cut out some of the plastic grill work to have an unobstructed shot out and the right hand one would be mounted a bit further in than the left due to the location of the tow hook. It may be too low a placement to cover Lidar aimed for the headlight domes, good if you have a front license plate mounted I suppose as that is usually the first place they'll target.

The stock grill placement seems to be the best compromise as it covers both the front headlights as well as the front license plate's mounting area.

We will try to run it through some Lidar tests later this month to see if it works as advertised (don't ask ...

Dave

 

Mine are between the slats up the upper gril, but I think my units are slightly thinner than the Blinders and therefore just fit without cutting plastic.

 

I helped install a set of the blinders on a friends mini. It fits between the slats pretty good (minimal grinding required). He had the OEM foglight so we had to move those a little more to the center of the car to get better headlight protection. Does it work.... Yes. While engaged in some "spirited" driving the alarms started screaming (it is very loud). We spotted the "source" and he/she was aiming the lidar right at the car, and kept aiming it at the car trying to get a reading. By the time we got even with the source we were doing the speed limit, since there are no jammers on the back of the car. Once I save up enough money I am going to buy/install a set.