Hardwiring Radar (Now Solved And Updated With Pics!)

[Phlame217]

I tried the tutorial on scionlife.com with the dome light hardwire, and no success. Then I tried hardwiring to cig lighter and no success, and then finally the the stereo and no success. I went off of the wiring diagrams i dug up on that site too. I was wondering if anyone else here had hardwired an '06 tC and had success. If so what did you wire it to and such. Thanks.

Also the radar I am doing it to is the RX 65 Pro.

[dfwaltima]

what connections are you using? did you cut the cig lighter cable from the radar?? I hardwired one in my friend hatch, it was easy, we did it at the dome light.

[Krdshrk]

Did you wire in a ground too?

[aZepolyn]

Did you wire in a ground too?

thats what I'm thinking. sounds like you're definately hitting places with live power, just maybe not completing the loop

[Phlame217]

Yea first time to the dome, i grounded to the place described in the tutorial, on the cig lighter I grounded to a bolt that I found tied into the middle below the cup holders, and then the stereo i grounded to the metal that holds the stereo in. Any ideas?

[eddiemoney]

Use a small screw and ground it to the frame.

[Krdshrk]

None of those grounds are good enough - ground it to the frame itself.

[eddiemoney]

KRD that's what i said, useless bump, i kill you!!!

[Krdshrk]

Yes but I embellished on it!

I KEEL YOU!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Roberto2.jpg

[Phlame217]

Well... I solved it and I like how it turned out, but it took alot of work...


Soo I totally ripped apart my car in search of the best way to wire and ground....(below, two pics?)
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/7747/hardwireinstall001hy9.th.jpg (http://img467.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hardwireinstall001hy9.jpg)
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/6764/hardwireinstall002gy0.th.jpg (http://img236.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hardwireinstall002gy0.jpg)

I decided to T-Tap the Cig connection
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/8513/hardwireinstall003uf3.th.jpg (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hardwireinstall003uf3.jpg)

Then behind the gauges, I found the perfect ground which ran strait into the chasis.(circled in black)
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7035/hardwireinstall004qu0.th.jpg (http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hardwireinstall004qu0.jpg)

After I figured out the best way to route the wires, which was begind the gauges, in which i ran the power down to the cig, mounted the ground as specified above, and then wound up and taped the wires. I then took the blank slot holder and dremelled it out and mounted the smart plug for radar onto it as shown here:
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/3719/hardwireinstall005qg1.th.jpg (http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hardwireinstall005qg1.jpg)

Then I routed the main cable as i did the power and ground behind the gauges, into the center console, under the ac vent and up as shown here:
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/2867/hardwireinstall006fg7.th.jpg (http://img157.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hardwireinstall006fg7.jpg)

All is done and works very well. Had to go for a joy ride after install and no problems.