hey i just bought a radar detector, but i have no ciggarette lighter in my car, i removed it awhile back, so i just got another one this morning from a junkyard, but how does it go on the dash bezel? i have the bezel off and i cant figure how it holds itself up? does anyone understand what i am talking about? i have it plugged in and it works fine but i cant get it to go in its original spot without falling out? please help asap. thanks.
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why didnt you just hard wire the detector to your car so your wouldnt have to deal with the plug? -
hhmm how would i go about doing that i would love to not have to use the stpuid lighter outlet. let me know because i will do it now.thanks.Comment
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im not too sure...i think you could wire it to the fuse panel near your foot in the car but ive never done this so im not the best person to ask...sorryComment
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does anyone know if i could hook my radar detector to a toggle switch? or another sourse besides the cars lighter oulet?Comment
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hmm.....i wouldnt know how to hard wire it to the fuse box. but if you use the cig lighter, the lighter should just screw into a little hole. if not, make a hole.
but maybe you could just cut the cord and run a wire from the rader to the battery? not sure if this will work, but it works for say if you have neons, and neons come with a cig lighter plug, so that works too. but you have to remove it so it doesnt ahve power when you turn the car off
or, you can do what i did with my neons with your radar. i ran a wire from the back of the cig lighter ot my neons, so maybe you can run a wire from the back of the cig lighter to your radar? i dunno, just some suggestions. someone back me up.Comment
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yeajh i could run power to a toggle and a ground and than hook radar to the toggle.i know what to do now.thaks guys.Comment
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well if your gonna cut the cable and hardwire it dont run it directly to your battery! if im not mistaken the fuse is inside of the lighter plug and you could easily fry your detector, which is why you need to run the power to the fuse panel...as for the toggle switch, that would be easy to set up just place the switch wherever you want it and have it be interupting your positive leadComment
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u think i would fry the radar if i ran it to a toggle i already have a toggle setpu not being used and its in a convienent location.Comment
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well that depends...how is this toggle switch wired up? where is it connected to?Comment
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theres 3 spots on the toggle,
-power wicj is pos battery
-ground to chassis
-and accessoir wich will be radar,
so i think it would be safe to just hook it to that?? what ya think. that way if for some reason i do not want to use it i can just flip the toggle. thin this will work without blowing the radar? i mean it'll be grounded and such.Comment
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hmmm, that toggle sounds weird...3 parts to it? so if the positive and ground (negative) goto the toggle and there is a 3rd place to hook something up, how are you going to hook both of the wires of the detector (pos + neg) to it if theres only one spot for a wire? maybe im confused...but anyways as long as the power your getting it from is fused then your good to go, just dont take ever take power directly from the battery without installing a fuseComment
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Yeah it will be fine. There is three spots for the light on the toggle to light up (it needs to be grounded). So the one marked acc goes on the decector and one to a 12v source. And ground the other to the car somewhere.Originally posted by 91accord4door
theres 3 spots on the toggle,
-power wicj is pos battery
-ground to chassis
-and accessoir wich will be radar,
so i think it would be safe to just hook it to that?? what ya think. that way if for some reason i do not want to use it i can just flip the toggle. thin this will work without blowing the radar? i mean it'll be grounded and such.Last edited by ChIoVnIdCa; 09-17-2004, 12:15 AM.
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And if you want to be safe just put the fuse the detector came with inline on the 12v lead.Comment
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nice.... thanks man i will be doing this tommorrow i'll let ya know whats happens. thanks.Comment
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