Those of you that have your radar detectors hardwired, can you post pictures of the finished product?

 

hard to post, mine is a sliced phone cord into the power and ground of my mirror...

made mine until i found you could get them a stealthwire.com.

turns on when my car turns on since my mirror is powered only when the car is on

 

I'm not really looking for people to post pics of the wires. I'm looking to see where they put their detector, etc.

 

mine is mounted right below my mirror.....let me see if i have a pic of it somewhere

 

you can find mirror mounts on eBay... they're also all over the internet... I would think that's one of the more common places to mount especially if you're hardwired...

(not mine, but a stock photo)

 

I don't like those mounts. They sit the RD too far in from the windshield. I have mine suctioned to the windshield just below the mirror, The back end of the RD touches the windshield.
In mounting you want the RD as high & as far forward as you can get it with a direct view of the front & rear of the road.
Mine is hardwired using a basic 2 wire phone cord spliced into the power mirror fuse in my fuse box & the other wire to ground.

 

pm trancemission, he hardwired is V1... could prolly help you out. and he's here in DFW. he's a nice guy and might even help you hardwire it

 

Mine's set up at the top of the windshield, just to the right of the mirror.

Then a remote display (V1) is mounted on top of the steering column.

This way, nobody sees a radar detector and decides to play follow-the-leader. Plus when I get pulled over, I can quickly dismount the remote display and cops can't see that I'm a habitual speeder by noticing the V1 (very hard to see unless you are inside the car).

Wires are run along the headliner, then down the driver side A-pillar, into the fusebox. Remote display hub is nestled into the fusebox area, as well.

I used to have some pictures of the setup, but I have no idea where they are now. Sorry.

 

I have the Bel 975 LR Remote, which is slightly different than the V1 and other winshield mounted units. I mounted the controller near the steering coloumn and the sensor is mounted behind the grille.

 

 

^^^

Thanks.
Also, those of you that have radars, whether hardwired or not, do you normally take them down when you are out and park? Are radar's as big of a target for snatchers as much as GPS's are?

 

 

I put mine in the glovebox when I park (when I remember).

 

Thanks for all the replies so far!


picus.....your car is


I'd steal that anyday. But why the auto tranny!?

 

^ i always thought your 335 was manual... guess not

 

Btw....picus. Is that the escort 8500 you have? That's the radar I think I'm gonna get. I'm guessing you like it/it works well?

 

Mine was located similar to Picus' setup... except it was down and to the right. I had a V1, and it was setup so that only the rear facing sensor peeked out from behind the mirror.

That coupled with the remote display made it so that pretty much no one knew I had a detector.

 

Juniorbean, I thought you might know the answer to this.

My preferred location for the radar would be right about what picus has his set up, but I've heard the argument that you shouldn't put the radar in the top most area of the windshield where it has the tint. Is that a valid argument?

 

yes, it's a valid argument

 

Damn.

 

CLPower already replied... and he is correct... it is a valid argument.

That is why I did not mount it exactly as Picus did, but lower and slightly to the right, with the rear sensor peeking out from the mirror. Mounting it here put it below the tint line and ensured I was not inhibiting the performance of the detector...

 

Oh and I never removed my detector from the car and never had any problems likely b/c of where it was mounted and the fact that everything was hardwired. Unless you were in the car with me while driving it was hard to tell there was one installed...

 

I remove mine when I'm parked for the day, or long periods. The car gets way too hot inside here in FL & I don't want my V1 exposed to that.

 

The one in the pic is a 7500. I have an 8500 now. The 8500 gives a lot less false signals than the 7500, but otherwise I find them similar. The range on both is very good. The 8500 has an auto off for laser that is nice.

Auto trans because I like it. Well, that and I spend most of my time in traffic, so I wanted an auto (this is my first one). I miss the manual sometimes but it's a good auto so I am cool with it.

I've moved it around to see if it helps but I didn't find there was any improvement lower down on the windshield. I'm not sure if you can tell from my pic but the radar is touching the windshield below the tint. Here is another pic:

 

my 8500x50 is mounted very similar to how junior bean described

to the right of the mirror just slightly and as high as possible before hitting windshield tint.
you cant see it from outside the car and can barely even see it when inside unless you know where it is or its on.

i always take mine down when i street park in seattle. if im not in the city though i usually just leave it up out of laziness.

i still want to hardwire it w/a remote display. does anyone know if the 8500x50 remote display will fit in the "not an ashtray" on a 2nd gen?

 

i normally don't take mine down because it's hard to tell it's even there, but if i'm in a bad neighborhood i might...btw, i have the bel rx65