Radar Detector Direct Wiring

[Milwaukean]

Can anyone tell me where to direct wire my radar detector so it is powered on at engine start-up? Right now I use the lighter socket and it is on all the time.

Thanks in advance!

 

[stevek]

You can tap into the wires that are in the harness of the rear view mirror.

http://invisicord.com/gallery/GM/mirrorpinout

That's the wire diagram you can use. I used the fuse in my fusebox for the RSE thinking it would turn on and off with the car but it doesn't... no biggie for me.

 

[BigRed76]

when you go to their site the picture of the install onthe 2008 Escalade is identical to our trucks.

 

[vjr021]

Just got my blendmount and invisicord today.. look for a write-up and review soon..

 

[stevek]

Just got my blendmount and invisicord today.. look for a write-up and review soon..

The only reason I was a little hesitant about the invisicord was that it wasn't fused like the ones that come with the V1 kit... plus you can't wire in a mute button... well easily that is.

EDIT:

Keep in mind that that is the wiring diagram looking at the male end of the plug (the side without the wires)

 

[Bleached]

The kits they make for these are nice.

 

[2007TahoeLTZ]

While I'd be nervous doing this myself, I'm totally gonna pay someone to do it for me when I get a v1, the hell with having the cord in the cig lighter slot.

 

[stevek]

While I'd be nervous doing this myself, I'm totally gonna pay someone to do it for me when I get a v1, the hell with having the cord in the cig lighter slot.

Seriously, I bought my car, and before I even drove off, I hooked up the invisicord within 2 minutes. No damage to be caused, it's fused from the fuse box.

 

[derk]

I have an ****** 9500. i took a regular phone jack and wired it to my mirror. A clean, simple, free mod. just get a volt meter and check which wire to tap into.

 

[Dahlar]

I have an ****** 9500. i took a regular phone jack and wired it to my mirror. A clean, simple, free mod. just get a volt meter and check which wire to tap into.

I want to bump this, just did it tonight. On a regular phone cord you can cut the black and yellow outside wires, red on phone cord goes to pink on connector and green on phone cord to the black wire on the mirror side. Pink and black wires are side by side in the mirror connector. Works great, be sure to find the pinning ends or a good taps. This was for my ****** Redline.

 

[Bam]

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.

 

[stevek]

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.

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

 

[Bam]

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

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...