Hi All,
I have 2006 Acura TL and I just got speeding ticket last week. :-( Since I got a nice powerful car, it's hard not to speed. I'm living in Georgia and radar detector is legal here. I went to circuit city yesterday and they told me that I can get free installation of radar detector (BELTRONICS VECTOR 995). There are two types of installation, once is Beltronics Direct Wire which will hide the wires and look the detector like customized installed and another one is cigaratte plugin. I'm interested in Direct Wire install way. Have any one try the Direct Wire install yet? One thing I worry is the Direct Wire will touch my car's electronics system and that may impact my manufacturer's warranty. Any suggestions? Appreciate if anyone can help me to make the install decision. Thank you!!

Piyo.

 

Lot's of people hardwire their detectors. In my opinion it's the only way to go. I don't like dealing or looking at cords in my car. It's not a big deal all their going to do is tap power from your fuse box or somewhere else. It's an easy 15min job if you know what you're doing. Don't worry about it.

 

Yea you'll wanna hard wire it bro. I had mine hardwired and it was so concealed even people riding in the car would know it was there until they heard it chirping when boogeys were around. They looked up next to the mirror and were like 'wtf is that' I'm like - ' thats ma boogey detector' I have one in the BM for sale. Escort 8500 x50 with the hardwire kit. .......

 

^All u have to do is wire the power wire to one of the fuses in the drivers side fuse panel and a ground it. I can show u how to do it too.

 

got any pics? ....kinda curious

 

Hi All,
Thanks a lot for all the responses. I think I will go with DirectWire solution. It seems like an easy job because what we need to do is just power wire to one of the fuses in the drivers side fuse panel. However, Circuitcity people told me that they have to spend around 45 minutes for installation because they have to pull out DashBoard and Acura 2006 car is more complicated to deal with and blah blah blah.....is it true that it's complicated and it will take circuitcity people so long time? I'm not a car expert and I don't think I can do it by myself though.

Once again, thank you so much for all of your previous responses!!

Piyo.

 

that is BS... all they do is pop the fuse box door and prob use an add a line fuse... and done...

 

^ total bs. you could prolly do it on ur own man its really not that hard.

 

Nah, dont have any pics at the moment. Thought I had taken some but I can't seem to find them at all now.

 

The hardest part of the install was putting everything back together. Everything pops off easily, I just hate trying to put them back in properly. Thats just me though, other then that, the install was pretty simple and straightforward.

 

Hey Guys,
Thanks a lot for all of the responses! It's my first time to post the question in forum and it really helps me a lot. :-)

 

fyi...i hardwired my bel rx-65 to my rear-view mirror power source and it took me less than 20 minutes and cost $10

IMHO it really easy and not worth taking to a shop to have done

 

I hard wired mine into the Sun roof controls with out a problem. Maybe a 2 foot wire

For those people that have escort you can use a regular telephone cord instead of buying the hard wire kit and you can also match it to your interior.

 

Yeah I installed mine using an invisicord to my sunroof harness, keyed hot wire, goes on when I turn the car on, took 10 mins. I'll look around for a link.

Dave

 

OK, the long way:

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...4&page=4&pp=25

the easy way:

https://acurazine.com/forums/car-talk-5/what-great-year-end-price-tl-s-need-help-asap-89682/

I used the easy with a cord from www.invisicord.com.

the second link shows exactly which wire to use, you don't have to cut or splice anything you just plug the end of the wire into the connector.

Dave

 

i bought the invisicord too!

super easy mod

 

what length of invisicord do i need to get to the sunroof harness?

 

radardetector.net

 

Sorry didn't check my email the last couple of days. Get the 16", it's plenty long enough, you can coil up the remainder under the panel.

Dave

 

Don't pay the money for the Vector. Go with the Valentine 1. Once you have the arrows, you won't beable to live without them!
http://www.valentine1.com/