Radar Detector Direct Wiring

I just finished doing this. I don't have an ******, my radar detector has a normal cigarette lighter adapter instead of a phone chord type. But this works the same. I cut the adapter a few inches back from the end that plugs into the detector & spliced the hot & ground to the appropriate wires on my mirror harness....Works like a champ!

Edit...If you are going to do this, you might want to leave a little more wire than I did. If I had kept it longer I could have run it up the harness and tucked it in the headliner. Didn't think about it until I had already made the cut...oh well...It doesn't look bad, but if I had done that it would have been cleaner.

Bam said:

I just finished doing this. I don't have an ******, my radar detector has a normal cigarette lighter adapter instead of a phone chord type. But this works the same. I cut the adapter a few inches back from the end that plugs into the detector & spliced the hot & ground to the appropriate wires on my mirror harness....Works like a champ!

Edit...If you are going to do this, you might want to leave a little more wire than I did. If I had kept it longer I could have run it up the harness and tucked it in the headliner. Didn't think about it until I had already made the cut...oh well...It doesn't look bad, but if I had done that it would have been cleaner.

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You don't have to splice into the harness, you can get some crimp pins and plug them into the actual plug... invisicord essentially

stevek said:

You don't have to splice into the harness, you can get some crimp pins and plug them into the actual plug... invisicord essentially

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yeah...I realize that. It was kind of a spur of the moment fix using what I had in my garage.

My radar detector had rechargeable batteries in it to make it cordless (plug in to cig lighter to recharge). Worked great for a while until today.... I went to pick my son up from school & realized the batteries weren't holding a charge. Turns out that the sun beating through the windshield had melted/ruined the batteries. I could replace the batteries, but I knew this would be a recurring problem, so I figured I would go ahead and wire it in.

Since my young'n has some tooth fairy money burning a hole in his pocket that I dont want him to spend yet, I knew it would turn into an all afternoon event with extra stops, or much complaining if I took him downtown with me to buy some crimp pins..so I just went ahead and tapped into the harness. Oh well....got my 12v...got my ground...same same...