Completed Projects

[Brad Jahnke]

1.) Hardwired radar detector
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb377/new2gr2010/alero/IMG_20110606_132458.jpg

2.) Hardwired GPS
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb377/new2gr2010/alero/IMG_20110606_132543.jpg

3.) White gauges with blue glow needles and blue backlights
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb377/new2gr2010/alero/IMG_20110606_132519.jpg

4.) Installed a blue LED for the shift area. Blue lit switch to control the radar detector
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb377/new2gr2010/alero/IMG_20110606_133615.jpg

[sleepyalero]

What kind of radar detector is that?

[jawa]

i have my dector right above my mirror, works awsome and no one knows its there untill it makes noise lol

[Brad Jahnke]

Its a cobra xrs9965

[heineck]

howd u do ur needles?

[wrestlingandrunning]

I like your gauge light set-up looks nice!

[Brad Jahnke]

I replaced all the 194's with blue led's and put the white overlays on. Made the needles glow. Luck maybe?

[lonnie]

RADAR DETECTOR location is wrong. I would relocate that radar detector at the top of the windshield just below the tint line. You are hindering your radar detector with it so low. Everyting else looks good though!

[cherrington17]

howd u do ur needles?

Theres a how-to for that. I wonder where i'd be located... :ninja:

[strtrydr]

Theres a how-to for that. I wonder where i'd be located... :ninja:

Lol ... I dunno cherry! It seems like people need to know Brain Science or Rocket Surgery in order to find things on this site. :p ROTFLMAO!!!

[Brad Jahnke]

I wish I had room for it up there...my remote start/alarm antenna is already there. I haven't seen much "hindering" where it is though, it starts going off almost a half mile before I get to intersections with radars...I think ill leave it here for now. That KS for the advice tho, next one ill put up there.

[JLw7123]

Its a cobra xrs9965

I have the same radar detector and i was thinking of hard wiring it how did u do it.

[Brad Jahnke]

Cut the cigarette lighter off, added an inline 10a fuse to the positive wire, spliced poz and neg wires to a switch (picture 4 in the original post, right side of my shift cover) and ran power to my drivers fuse box turn signal fuse with an add-a-fuse thing from auto zone. All in all took me about 2 hours.

[sleepyalero]

i have my dector right above my mirror, works awsome and no one knows its there untill it makes noise lol

Same here. Great place for it.

[spyder_013]

Or you could just piggy back off of another fuse with it. If you dont want to have to remember to switch it off when the car is turned off, you tap into a fuse that comes on with the car only, like the wiper fuse. You can get "add-a-fuse) taps so it will use your wiper fuse and add a new fuse for your radar detector wire hot. You could also wire it to a switch if you wanted that function, this also allows you to keep the cigarette lighter.

Unless I am missing something, that seems better to me. More wire to run, but...

[Brad Jahnke]

Mine goes off when the ignition is off, the switch is just for in case I wanna turn it off so I don't have to reach up to mute it. I used the add a fuse tap from auto zone.

[spyder_013]

Ahhh, all right. Oh jesus. I totally just noobed, lol. I saw the cut the cigarrette lighter part off and totally neglected where you said you used an add a fuse, my bad.

Guages look really nice, I really like that backlighting.

[Brad Jahnke]

I would have used one of the cigarette lighter adapters from auto zone, but my wire was too sun beaten, it just fell apart when I stuffed it inside the middle console. Believe me it frustrated me cuz it would have been SO much easier lol

[cherrington17]

Lol ... I dunno cherry! It seems like people need to know Brain Science or Rocket Surgery in order to find things on this site. :p ROTFLMAO!!!

:emotlol: +rep to you, sir!

[Brad Jahnke]

:haha: How about some +Rep for me for actually using the search button and private messages? LOL

[cherrington17]

- rep for being a whiner.

[Brad Jahnke]

- rep for being a whiner.

I have one word for that…-> "!"

[heineck]

Haha negative Rep for demanding Rep lol

[strtrydr]

:emotlol: +rep to you, sir!

Glad someone got it :)

[spc2125]

once i read he wanted a rep i knewwww he was gunna get minus rep :lol:

[Brad Jahnke]

Boo :(

[cherrington17]

Brad, click your "control panel" and your rep points are listed at the bottom. Click it, and it'll show the post that got you what. (+/-) You can't find out who gave it to you, unless they tell you.

Spc.... - rep for being a tattle tale. :lol:

[heineck]

Cherry's on a reproll today lol

[cherrington17]

Cherry's on a reproll today lol

+ rep Damn straight! High Five!

[Cliff8928]

http://images.pictureshunt.com/pics/b/borat_high_five-2500.jpg

[spc2125]

Spc.... - rep for being a tattle tale. :lol:

not tatle tale, predicting future.
like how ur gunna give me - rep after this post cuz ur "rep" happy today