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Hey guys, I wanted to wire my cigarette lighter in a way that when I shut of my car, that shuts off as well. The reason for that is because of my radar detector, I hate turning it on and off everytime, just annoying. Its an 8500 x50 so the hot wiring stuff for it is expensive, plus i wanna leave it the way it is, help is appreciated
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Here's a tip. Don't leave it in your car.
Some bastards stole my X50, 3 days after I got it.
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Originally posted by Stazi:
Here's a tip. Don't leave it in your car.
Some bastards stole my X50, 3 days after I got it.
I had a Valentine before the x50 which got stolen as well
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I have mine wired so it comes on with the CD player. It just looks so tacky when you have the wire going all the way to the cig lighter. And you don't have to worry about turning it on and off.
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RogerR I believe has a how-to to wire a V1 into the sunroof module. That also solves the problem of turning it off when the car turns off, I think ...
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How did you wire that to your radio anyhow? I'm just curous.
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My guess is the 12V Ignition/Acc. wire.
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Originally posted by THEDANT21:
My guess is the 12V Ignition/Acc. wire.
Yes and then ground to ground. Oh so easy and oh see clean
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Originally posted by RawBurt:
Originally posted by THEDANT21:
My guess is the 12V Ignition/Acc. wire.
Yes and then ground to ground. Oh so easy and oh see clean
so all you basically gotta do is take the wire from the ignition that goes to the radio and wire it up to the radar detector, like splice some wires or something?
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This is all you do. Mine is an after market HU. So i pulled it out, spliced the positive wire from the radar to the red wire (power) behind the HU. Then took negative from radar to black wire (ground) to HU. Works great and turns on as soon as the CD player comes on upon start up. Not the best picture but heres my setup up with no tacky wires... 
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