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Old 01-04-2018, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by NOLAGT
Ok so naturally my wires are different from yours. I have a 18 xlt. My red is more brown and the wires are in different slots and different colors.


You are gonna have to get a meter and find the hot and ground with yours!
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Old 01-04-2018, 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by NOLAGT
Did you add those flat connectors to the end of your wires? I just looked at my kit and it’s just soldered ends. Not sure if that will be rigged enough to jam down in there?
No thats the way my mirror tap came!
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Same position just different color wires. DMM with red probe on blue/yellow and black probe on the black/yellow wire gives a positive 12v.





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Originally Posted by NOLAGT
Same position just different color wires. DMM with red probe on blue/yellow and black probe on the black/yellow wire gives a positive 12v.




Thats cool--same spots different colors--jeez lol
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Originally Posted by icecoldak
Ok just did the mirror tap on my 18 Limited and it went very smooth: The Black wire is your (HOT) and the Green is the (GROUND) and it comes on when you turn the truck on and Off when truck is off!! The detector DOES NOT go off when you go into reverse as I have heard around here, at least not mine!!







What mount are you using? Is is just the suction cup mount? I like how you have it tucked so close to the mirror.
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Originally Posted by UncleG
Hopefully you already know that when the radar detector goes off it means you have been detected.
Mine works great and has saved me numerous times.
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Originally Posted by firecaptain
What mount are you using? Is is just the suction cup mount? I like how you have it tucked so close to the mirror.

Sorry man--I misses this somehow...I used this

https://www.ebay.com/itm/R1-R3-Perma...JZfTCw&vxp=mtr
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Had to transfer my Beltronics R65 from the 2015 XLT S'Crew that I hardwired into the overhead console, ..., to my new 2018 Lariat S'Crew, ..., & tapped into the mirror connector this time.





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Thanks ice!!

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Originally Posted by icecoldak
Ok just did the mirror tap on my 18 Limited and it went very smooth: The Black wire is your (HOT) and the Green is the (GROUND) and it comes on when you turn the truck on and Off when truck is off!! The detector DOES NOT go off when you go into reverse as I have heard around here, at least not mine!!







fantastic, I got an 18 limited looking to do the exact same thing. Thanks


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