I need help placing radar detector in Coupe
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I need help placing radar detector in Coupe
Does anyone know how to hardwire a radar detector in the Coupe. I seem to recall seeing a post were someone mounted it near the rearview mirror. I searched for post but couldnt find it. I think it was hardwired from the bacl fuse panal.
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Mine is mounded directly to the left of the rear-view mirror. From outside, due to factory window tinting, you can barelly tell it is there. The hardwire goes down the left side and all the way back to the trunk. There it is wired into the rear fuse box (where there are open fuses that turn off when the car is turned off, which works perfect for the radar detector). It does not really interfere with the sun visor (as the detector ends before the visor starts.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Flashman
Mine is mounded directly to the left of the rear-view mirror. From outside, due to factory window tinting, you can barelly tell it is there. The hardwire goes down the left side and all the way back to the trunk. There it is wired into the rear fuse box (where there are open fuses that turn off when the car is turned off, which works perfect for the radar detector). It does not really interfere with the sun visor (as the detector ends before the visor starts.
I did the exact same thing as Rick, except I mounted mine on the other side of the rearview mirror - on the passenger side. That way I can still see it, but it's out of my direct line of sight. I rely mostly on the audible alarm, anyway.
Although, having it mounted over there, I sometimes confuse all of the high-pitched screeching and buzzing coming from that side of the car for my girlfriend.
Mine is mounded directly to the left of the rear-view mirror. From outside, due to factory window tinting, you can barelly tell it is there. The hardwire goes down the left side and all the way back to the trunk. There it is wired into the rear fuse box (where there are open fuses that turn off when the car is turned off, which works perfect for the radar detector). It does not really interfere with the sun visor (as the detector ends before the visor starts.
I did the exact same thing as Rick, except I mounted mine on the other side of the rearview mirror - on the passenger side. That way I can still see it, but it's out of my direct line of sight. I rely mostly on the audible alarm, anyway.
Although, having it mounted over there, I sometimes confuse all of the high-pitched screeching and buzzing coming from that side of the car for my girlfriend.
