Connect cop radar directly to car

[Ryan659]

Hey everyone, does anyone know if there is a way to wire a cop radar to the car directly instead of using the cig lighter? I don't want to take up the cig lighter because i use that for my gps unit. Any ideas or a write up would be great. Thanks

 

[99Integrags]

Hey everyone, does anyone know if there is a way to wire a cop radar to the car directly instead of using the cig lighter? I don't want to take up the cig lighter because i use that for my gps unit. Any ideas or a write up would be great. Thanks

You can always buy a splitter so you can have 2 plugs instead of 1.

 

[Samurai_Blue]

plive it into a poer wire n ground

 

[Ryan659]

plive it into a poer wire n ground

Sorry, noob q. "plive" ??

 

[Samurai_Blue]

splice

 

[Tam4511]

cut power wire to radar
get spare wire
jam hot wire under a constantly hot side of a fuse
splice ground wire into another ground or just tie it to the frame

DONE

 

[BeatBox]

plive it into a poer wire n ground

yup!

the way i had it in mine to not have to cut the wire off the radar itself i went out and got an extension piece to cut up. plug your radar detector to that and cut the other end off to expose the wires

after you have the wires showing put the negative(black or clear)) to the ground wire off the after market deck wiring harness and the power wire(red) red/power wire on the aftermarket wiring harness. when its all set and done it will turn on when your deck comes on

if you dont have an aftermarket deck then i think you might be able to use the wires off of the stock clock

 

[Samurai_Blue]

cut power wire to radar
get spare wire
jam hot wire under a constantly hot side of a fuse
splice ground wire into another ground or just tie it to the frame

DONE

naw something that is only on when the ignition is on.

 

[Tam4511]

Well that's what I meant, like bot something that's only on sometimes like your headlight fuse lol

 

[Samurai_Blue]

Well that's what I meant, like bot something that's only on sometimes like your headlight fuse lol

something like that would be cool or even wiring it to the ignition its self

 

[jdmjim]

their illegal in va

 

[Prozon]

They're illegal a lot of places, but that doesn't stop people lol.
Key-On for the radio?

 

[thenoxus1]

Actually, most major companies sell direct connect kits for cars, that plug into fuse boxes, I know Viper makes one for theres.

 

[Ryan659]

awesome, thanks everyone. I had a general idea of how to do it but wanted to make sure i wouldn't fry something important. That'll be my next project, running the wires n stuff. I just got done installing my s2000 antenna.

 

[Prozon]

My antenna looks similar to that, except it's not slanted or from an S2K lol.
It was a cheap fix for a broken auto-antenna.