[keep_hope_alive]

The violet wire is much easier to access under the center console, and it's a safer place to tap anyway.

To remove the center console you just remove six bolts and the shift knob. The seats can remain in-place (just move forward or backward to access bolts.



Under the center console you can tap the same Violet wire easily on either side of the console harness (vehicle side and console side).

Here is the accessory port wiring intercepted and soldered on the console side (before covering):


And this is after insulating and covering:


You can also access on the floor, where the Violet wire enters the harness. Which side depends on if you want the device to stay with the console or not. In my case, I wanted power for a radar detector (vehicle side) and an additional power socket in the console (console side), hence two tap locations.

On the floor location before covering:


After covering and showing a terminal block for easy power adds to this circuit later:


The power socket I added:


The cord for that power socket routes to my phone mount, you can also see my radar detector which is hard wired to the vehicle side of the violet wire.


Routing the radar detector cord required removing the a-pillar cover to ensure the cord did not conflict with the airbag and stayed hidden in the dash. I covered the power cable with Tessa Tape so it looks stock and secured with factory wiring.

[paradigm]

Nice work. This forum is very slow, I figured this post would have had a lot of responses by now.

Which radar detector did you go with? I am starting to shop for one myself.

[keep_hope_alive]

Originally Posted by paradigm

Nice work. This forum is very slow, I figured this post would have had a lot of responses by now.

Which radar detector did you go with? I am starting to shop for one myself.

https://uniden.com/products/r3?srslt...ff5yyM0fL3okpM

I just did a review of it in your question thread!