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i've started some electrical work in my car just to play around and learn some stuff. a lot of the topics on this forum are great.



sirius radio. i moved it from the center and hid the wire in between the top part of the dashboard and the front part.



learned all about t-splicing and was able to tap a cigarette outlet (pair of outlets from autozone for $5) to the wires behind the original cigarette outlet. you might be able to see the little bit of wire going under and into the vent area.
> any suggestions to completely hide this wire?



finally, i tapped another cigarette outlet to the dome light so the original cord is intact. only problem is i have to remember to turn off the radar detector since the dome light power is always on. the diy on this was really easy to follow (10 minute job).

 
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cooool

 
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You could plop in a lil relay from a switched power line to turn the radar detector on and off.

For the sirius wires, you could possibly move the wire to go under the dash, instead of above, then have the wire come out of the side of the door jamb, instead of right above on the top of the dash.

anyhow, it looks nice!

 
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yea, i'd move the sirius wire under the dash and bring it out on the side or somethni, so the only person that would see the wire is the driver, the passenger would see a clean install and be like a deer in headlights and say "whoa wireless"

 
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to hide the wires completely, here are a couple suggestions.

for the sirius box, pull out your A-pillar and run the wire up as close to the windshield as you can (or so) between the a-pillar and dash. its not perfect, but I think its the best youll be able to do. once the cable is inside the underdash, youll be able to wire it straight to the cig lighter area without the small loops being visible anywhere.

as for the radar detector, thats a piece of cake. coming directly from the radar detector, you make a beeline for either the mirror or the post the mirror is mounted on. whatever makes the cable less visible. from there you can route the wire to the mirror mount and up the back of it. you can test various cable wrap methods to see what looks best, from wrap to zipties to doublesided tape to crazyglue. if you pop off the cover of the rearview mirror mount, youll be able to pull down the headliner half an inch or so, all teh space youll need to pull the plug through the boundary between the headliner and the windshield. youll never see the cable because itll be hidden by your rearview mirror mount.

good call on splicing the cig lighter! youll be able to power everything from your sirius adapter to phone chargers and more without ever having to have a permanent fixture exposed for all your passengers to see. its brilliant.

 
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Where and how did you put up the Surius untenna?

 
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nice. i would have just moved the wires to different locations to go behind the panels. The sirius one looks like it might be nicer if it went along the a pillar, close to the door, where the molding comes to the dashboard. also, the wire for the radar detector, may be cleaner if it went up in where the stem for the mirror goes. just my thoughts.

 
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Run the wires down the side by the door, Im planning on splicing into the cig lighter too to get rid of the ugly plug, also are you using the FM modulator? I did for a while and i hate them, i got the RCA adapter for my aftermarket HU, its great i can plug it into anything and run it through my system, dvd player, mp3 player, and my PSP

 
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take your sirius wire , run it inside your pillar , and then run it down under the dash so it goes over the fuse box, and then pull off your player and run the cord up in behind it and hook it up.. its actually pretty simple then you have no wire showing anywhere , and yeah . move it right next to the pillar

 
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can we PLEASE not bring back topics that have been dead for 2 months?