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Originally Posted by Thumbs
That's a nice installation!
Is the cable the factory cable?
Are the grommets/o-rings at the mirror something you found locally?
I'm guessing you ran the wire across the top of the windshield, etc. Did you have to remove trim other than the piece at the mirror?
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I had to remove numerous trim pieces: the A Piller (you need to run the wire behind the air bag), trim pieces under the glove box to access the fuse block, the D piller to run the rear camera wire, etc. I did a lot of searching on this forum to find explanations and photographs.
I buy a lot of stuff on Amazon as it is easier to buy there than drive to numerous stores looking for stuff. The grommets were one of those things. A lot of the stuff I order I will or can use for other things down the road. See these links for some stuff I ordered to make things easier.
I drilled holes in the mirror trim piece, ran the wires through appropriate sized grommets and after this forced the grommets into the holes in the mirror trim. Then ran the wires where they needed to go. Any wires that needed to be connected together, such as the radar detector plug wire to the longer wire was done AFTER running the wires through the grommets as I wanted the grommets to be as tight as possible and sometimes the connectors are too big to fit through the grommet or the hole.
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For the BlackVue front camera, I cut off the 12V plug and hard wired to fuse block with a fuse tap:
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For the radar detector:
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Cut off the ends and connect to the above 20 gauge wire.
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