Its not the X5 its your detector! No Radar Dectetor under $300 is going to be truely effective and no detector is 100%. Do yourself a huge favor and buy a Valentine One, it was $406 shipped from the Valentine web site. Besides being the best Detector, some may argue, it comes with the tools to hardwire it making the ugly cig lighter power cord obsolete. I have mine hardwired to the garage door opener power wire (the brown one) and it fits nicely up by the rearview mirror. If you are not on a budget I highly suggest buying the Steath One to go with it, it fully integrates the V1 in your X5, and has nice features like not going off below a certain speed and you can mute it with your steering wheel controls. Like burkleymh said, you have to invest some money if you want better protection, but its worth it - your one ticket may have paid for the V1.

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