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hard wiring an escort radar detector

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Topic: hard wiring an escort radar detector

Posted By: cubinbob
Subject: hard wiring an escort radar detector
Date Posted: June 19, 2005 at 3:45 PM

I have a escort radar detector and i need to wire it to were it comes on when the car does. I took apart the car lighter thing that comes with the radar and i came acros two wires there were more but does two are it. One is red and the other is green. i think that red is power and green is ground, i hope. Here is my wiring diagram from my car. What wire do i need to tap in to run the radar. Do i need to use a relay?
Constant 12V+     Pink/Black or Red        Ignition Switch Harness
Starter      Yellow      Ignition Switch Harness
Ignition      Dark Blue      Ignition Switch Harness
Ignition 2      BLACK/ White      Ignition Switch Harness
Ignition 3      RED / White      Remote Start BCM (Check Engine Light)
Accessory      BLACK/ Orange      Ignition Switch Harness (Heat/AC)



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Posted By: cubinbob
Date Posted: June 19, 2005 at 3:56 PM
it is a 1997 dodge neon




Posted By: phatx96xaccord
Date Posted: June 19, 2005 at 10:14 PM
with my radar detector i hard wired it to the cigarette lighter unit, cut off the plug from the power cord and wired the wires up, and worked great.

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Posted By: Hornshockey
Date Posted: June 20, 2005 at 2:06 PM
To double check that you have the correct wires from your radar detector, check for continuity between the wires in the cord and the contacts on the plug itself.  The contact on the tip of the plug will be your positive wire and the side contact will be your ground.  Hook the ground wire to a clean metal surface in the car, and hook the positive wire to the ignition wire of your car, with a fuse in line.  I would say 2A if you can find it.  There is no need to wire relays or anything with this.   Does your plug have a hideaway display on it?  That would be the only reason I could see for more than two wires running from the plug to the unit.  I hardwired my passport 8500, but kept the plug intact, hidden above the headliner right above my detector, it has a display on the plug, and I wasn't sure if chopping the plug off would cause any sort of malfunction.  I just wired directly to the board inside the plug. Works perfectly; just be sure you fuse it; when you bypass the plug, you also lose the fuse that is inside of it.

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