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I looked again in the manual and again at the windshield. I could have sworn that I saw a passthrough on the left side of the mirror one time when I looked. Maybe it was on one of my previous windshields, but more likely than not it was faulty memory.
Ended up moving the detector back down to the center of the dash as the right hand side of the mirror didn't look to be too convenient.
BTW, when I stopped into the dealership Friday, I asked the service manager about running the wires for hardwiring the detector and he said their guys wouldn't touch it. Bummer. Mainly I'm just skittish about messing with any of the trim and trying to get the cover off the drivers side end of the dash. This isn't like my Jeep or F-250 where I'm happy to go prying, pulling, drilling, etc. Would be nice to get my hands on a nice exploded drawing of the dash . . .
Dealers won’t touch it because it messes with the Distronic ****. Well the older ones did at least.
That said. Look at the pics I sent and just do it that way. No need to pull any pillars as you could tuck them behind the pillar and route it down to the left side “US Driver side” fuse box. Seeing as you have the Uniden R3 it can detect non movement and “auto switch off” so you don’t really need a dedicated ignition switch or the low voltage timer I sent the link to.
Hardest thing is finding a ground but you can use one of the larger mounts and shown in the picture I sent above
They will / can give you allot of ****e if they feel like it.
Just send them the UL / FCC number that shows that the device is listed as not intervening with equipment and that it’s properly fused. Not much that they can complain about after that. Ask me how I know that.
Sorry not up to date on all the replies but I had the same question on my e43. I was amazed that the only option was for a hard wire or use the back seat cigarette lighter plug. Especially when my car came with an ashtray...wtf.?well.... When I got into the passenger side footwell to pull the fuse panel off l found that there is a 12v cigarette lighter plug where the passengers left knee would be. four others on this site had their e much longer than I have and werent aware either. Wow... felt stupid but spent zero dollars and have a functional radar detector. May still hardwire but don’t have to. Curious to hear if your car has it too....
I looked all around the passenger seat and leg, knee, foot, area and didn't see any plug. Had the service guy today have a look and confirm that there is not one there.
There is not. My car does not have a second DC power jack up near the front passenger area anywhere.
It's a bit idiotic to make these broad statements.
Installed RD's definitely work better than any windshield unit but neither allows you to avoid a ticket if the cop actually wants to clock you. It just stops the lazy ones. Laser jammers are illegal in the state here and cops seem to know just fine when they are being jammed. They just pull you over and inspect the car for jammers and then you have a court date; not for speeding but for your jammers.
In daily traffic I found that Escort Live has been a really helpful indicator since there appears to be a sufficient amount of Escort owners. The Escort 360c is actually doing a much better job tracking the signals despite the acoustic glass.
Btw. driving triple digits on highways where half the people don't know how to drive or bother to use the rearview mirror or turn signals is not "the German way". Actually quite the opposite...
Given he has never got a ticket driving triple digits, I think his setup is doing the job rather well just based on stats. But thats just me, haha.
Finally got around to wiring in my Uniden R3 yesterday. Pretty easy and straightforward.
Mounted the R3 in the lower center of the windshield behind one of the pass through spots. Ran the power cord along the windshield. It tucks in easily with just a little push from a credit card or plastic edging tool. Only spot where the cord is visible is a few inches along the bottom of the A pillar on the passenger side before it runs behind some trim. The trim piece on the side of the glove box pops off pretty easily and allows you to run the power cord down the side of the car and then into the passenger side fuse box.
There is a threaded ground post inside the fuse box and I had one of the right sized nuts on hand so that portion was easily taken care of. I'd also ordered a mini fuse doubler, along with the direct wire Uniden power cable. Just clip the hot connector off the end of the power cable and crimp to the hot end of the fuse doubler and insert into a candidate fuse location and then button everything back up.
The fuse isn't switched, but the R3 does have a power saver feature that turns it off if the vehicle doesn't move for an hour.
Finally got around to wiring in my Uniden R3 yesterday. Pretty easy and straightforward.
Mounted the R3 in the lower center of the windshield behind one of the pass through spots. Ran the power cord along the windshield. It tucks in easily with just a little push from a credit card or plastic edging tool. Only spot where the cord is visible is a few inches along the bottom of the A pillar on the passenger side before it runs behind some trim. The trim piece on the side of the glove box pops off pretty easily and allows you to run the power cord down the side of the car and then into the passenger side fuse box.
There is a threaded ground post inside the fuse box and I had one of the right sized nuts on hand so that portion was easily taken care of. I'd also ordered a mini fuse doubler, along with the direct wire Uniden power cable. Just clip the hot connector off the end of the power cable and crimp to the hot end of the fuse doubler and insert into a candidate fuse location and then button everything back up.
The fuse isn't switched, but the R3 does have a power saver feature that turns it off if the vehicle doesn't move for an hour.
Sounds good, I might do the same, hopefully my Radenso has a auto off feature, I'll have to look it up. That makes sense running it into the pass side fuse box at least then it will free up my cigarette lighter too as I'm plugged into that now with the radar detector.
I'm a new owner and bought a used 2017 with the P3 package. Do we know for certain that the Uniden R1/R3 won't work properly unless it is mounted in one of the passthrough areas?
How can I tell if my 2017 E300 has the special window glass, or is it standard? Is it visually apparent?
This is the first car I put jammers in the rear. I hear rumors that some of the local cops are hitting from the rear. Most of my driving I am using Drive Pilot, music cranked up, and just getting thru rush hour traffic. If and when the road is fully clear I will open it up and with this car you can reach triple digits very quickly. So I installed the rear jammers because I want to decrease my chance of going to jail.
Nice. I installed jammers on mine too, but I read that the jammers should be in a straight line so mine are all mounted on top. You have one below the plate.
Let me know if you'd like me to test them. I have a Dragoneye Compact as well as a Kustom Prolite+
Finally got around to wiring in my Uniden R3 yesterday. Pretty easy and straightforward.
Mounted the R3 in the lower center of the windshield behind one of the pass through spots. Ran the power cord along the windshield. It tucks in easily with just a little push from a credit card or plastic edging tool. Only spot where the cord is visible is a few inches along the bottom of the A pillar on the passenger side before it runs behind some trim. The trim piece on the side of the glove box pops off pretty easily and allows you to run the power cord down the side of the car and then into the passenger side fuse box.
There is a threaded ground post inside the fuse box and I had one of the right sized nuts on hand so that portion was easily taken care of. I'd also ordered a mini fuse doubler, along with the direct wire Uniden power cable. Just clip the hot connector off the end of the power cable and crimp to the hot end of the fuse doubler and insert into a candidate fuse location and then button everything back up.
The fuse isn't switched, but the R3 does have a power saver feature that turns it off if the vehicle doesn't move for an hour.
this is the route I'll be going. I also need to hardwire my blackvue 900 dual channel dash cam with backup battery, but will probably run this to the trunk so the battery can sit back there. I've also got a nighthawk wifi hotspot with backup battery that I'll also need to hardwire, probably to the fuse box in the passenger compartment. And my uniden R3 will be hardwired there too. So I've got 3 things I need to hardwire, I just need to make sure I find 3 accessory power sources at the 2 locations (even if the R3 does shut off automatically). I'm gonna be pretty damn familiar with the process when I'm done... Are there any videos of people removing the trim piece adjacent to the glove box? It's too bad a rearview mirror tap option isn't available as that'd be super easy, which was what I did in my last vehicle, but I had my R3 mounted up high on that vehicle. Not sure where I'm putting it yet.
I'm glad my car has the cigarette lighter socket and not the wireless charging. I like having my Radenso plugged into that because there is a red power switch right on the end of that plug and I can easy reach down to turn on and off the detector like when I get in the city and it starts going off rather than having to reach up to the windshield. I just mounted mine on the lower left side of the windshield and concealed the wires under the panels, worked out good.
Nice. I installed jammers on mine too, but I read that the jammers should be in a straight line so mine are all mounted on top. You have one below the plate.
Let me know if you'd like me to test them. I have a Dragoneye Compact as well as a Kustom Prolite+
seems like you’ve done a lot of research and as you know, this subject is a big brain drain but it looks like you are interested in recommending the escort products what about ALP ? The new dragon laser and all.
I had my front and rear blackvues hardwired in to the same circuit as the power socket under the dash in the passenger footwell. This seemed like a really neat solution because you're not messing with anything critical in a fusebox and I absolutely did not want the cams draining battery while parked. The w213 e63 already uses the battery pretty hard while parked to the point where its really hard to get the car to go into suspend mode for vacations etc. I park in a private garage nearly all the time the car's sitting for any period so I don't see any upside to having them running 24x7. They're mainly for legal purposes in the event of an accident so they turn on with the ignition and record every second the car's actually moving.
I had my front and rear blackvues hardwired in to the same circuit as the power socket under the dash in the passenger footwell. This seemed like a really neat solution because you're not messing with anything critical in a fusebox and I absolutely did not want the cams draining battery while parked. The w213 e63 already uses the battery pretty hard while parked to the point where its really hard to get the car to go into suspend mode for vacations etc. I park in a private garage nearly all the time the car's sitting for any period so I don't see any upside to having them running 24x7. They're mainly for legal purposes in the event of an accident so they turn on with the ignition and record every second the car's actually moving.
yeah i'll wire the blackvues and their backup battery to the fuses for one of the switchable power sources, probably the dash power socket, or the back seat, or the trunk one. I'll do the same for the radar detector and my mobile wifi hotspot with battery. I'm tapping a lot of fuses! You're right about the cameras, hadn't really thought about that - I park in a garage too so the cams are really for driving incidents. I just wish we got discounts here in the US like they do overseas if you have a cam.
is it legal in the US to use radar jammers? don't you have patrols in disguised cars running on the streets with radars for detection speed infractions? In that case won't they stop you and fine you for jamming their radars?
i intend to go for a paranoid configuration with 4 dash cams, by using 2 Blackvue DR750-2CH, with the traditional front a rear mounts and the other two mounted to the top side panels of the car to film the outdoor sides. This is more for parking purposes.
will need also an WIFI hotspot + 4G connection and all of this powered either by a portable jump starter or the blackvue battery (although i find this later one to be expensive for what it does).
one of my doubts is with interference with the car's radio and 4G. don't have DAB and on top of this I have the acoustic comfort package that can block 4G signals. I read that the radio antenna is run through one of the back C pillars and having a rear camera can interfere with radio reception. anyone had this issue?
is it legal in the US to use radar jammers? don't you have patrols in disguised cars running on the streets with radars for detection speed infractions? In that case won't they stop you and fine you for jamming their radars?
i intend to go for a paranoid configuration with 4 dash cams, by using 2 Blackvue DR750-2CH, with the traditional front a rear mounts and the other two mounted to the top side panels of the car to film the outdoor sides. This is more for parking purposes.
will need also an WIFI hotspot + 4G connection and all of this powered either by a portable jump starter or the blackvue battery (although i find this later one to be expensive for what it does).
one of my doubts is with interference with the car's radio and 4G. don't have DAB and on top of this I have the acoustic comfort package that can block 4G signals. I read that the radio antenna is run through one of the back C pillars and having a rear camera can interfere with radio reception. anyone had this issue?
I believe its a state by state thing. Most states ban jammers, one even bans detectors. Here in TX it is illegal to use a radar/laser jammer. If the cop suspects you have one they're within their rights to search your car, even if you turned it off. Its just another layer of hassle I can do without. Minus the jammer, I frankly find a plain detector pointless. I didn't even bother with my newer cars. I see the cop well before the detector goes off and I still have to deal with the 99.9% false positives every time I'm just driving along. Speed traps are very predictable and the only time I've been pulled over in the last 5 years has been for no front license plate because I always slow down when I spot a cop.
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Originally Posted by tonecas
is it legal in the US to use radar jammers? don't you have patrols in disguised cars running on the streets with radars for detection speed infractions? In that case won't they stop you and fine you for jamming their radars?
i intend to go for a paranoid configuration with 4 dash cams, by using 2 Blackvue DR750-2CH, with the traditional front a rear mounts and the other two mounted to the top side panels of the car to film the outdoor sides. This is more for parking purposes.
will need also an WIFI hotspot + 4G connection and all of this powered either by a portable jump starter or the blackvue battery (although i find this later one to be expensive for what it does).
one of my doubts is with interference with the car's radio and 4G. don't have DAB and on top of this I have the acoustic comfort package that can block 4G signals. I read that the radio antenna is run through one of the back C pillars and having a rear camera can interfere with radio reception. anyone had this issue?
I have a dash camera installed in all of my cars. However it would be nice if they can record and send you warnings or live feeds when you are away from the car. I originally got the 4G service from Mercedes, however it is only active when the car is on. The only other options are to get your own portable WiFi and keep it on and use the Blackvue camera or there is a new camera (Owlcam.com) that has built in 4 G service that I thought about. I'll let one of you guys try one of these options first. Right now I am getting some ceramic brake pads installed to cut down on the annoying brake dust.
I have a dash camera installed in all of my cars. However it would be nice if they can record and send you warnings or live feeds when you are away from the car. I originally got the 4G service from Mercedes, however it is only active when the car is on. The only other options are to get your own portable WiFi and keep it on and use the Blackvue camera or there is a new camera (Owlcam.com) that has built in 4 G service that I thought about. I'll let one of you guys try one of these options first. Right now I am getting some ceramic brake pads installed to cut down on the annoying brake dust.
i'm doing this already. i got the nighthawk hotspot router and have it connected to a large usb battery in the trunk, and it's hardwired into the trunk (right next to where my blackvue is hardwired with it's ultra battery). The router battery lasts about a week, the blackvue only a little over a day, but they do exactly as you're describing. I had this setup in my old car this way too and it worked great, you get push notifications if motion is detected or any impact. it was an easy hardwire too since it can just sit in the trunk. HTH
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