80MGB

Has anyone hard wired a radar detector in an A7? If so, how did you do it, where did you mount it? Pictures? I'm thinking of doing this where I can easily remove it and use it in another vehicle. Am considering the Escort 9500ix as the detector of choice.

Gangee

My A7 won't be on my hands until this Friday (Yes!), so I guess I'm not officially an owner. But I've had Audi's for years, all of them with a radar detector.

A windshield mount detector is no-brainier install, shouldn't take more than 2 hours. Any average installer can do it.

You want it high in the windshield, make sure it has a clean line of sight to the rear window.

Have fun, safe driving.

JerryS4

This should help a bit:


https://www.audiworld.com/forums/sho....php?t=2807783

Gangee

Howdy Jerry,

In no way am I being argumentive. But you said "laser shifters are legal"? Not in Colorado.

Anyway,

JerryS4

OK, then they are not legal in Colorado. They are legal in many other states.
In Virginia, even a basic radar detector is illegal....

Gangee

Radar detectors are different than jammers, I thought you were referencing jammers. Here's a good link to the laws where jammers are illegal:
http://laser-interceptorusa.com/11201.html

feckman

Hard-wired my 9500ix -- it's a piece of cake. Find an unused switched fuse, run the cable under the weather stripping on the A pillar, across the roof liner, down the windshield behind the rearview mirror. Took less than an hour. The hardest part was finding a good ground and, once found, loosening and tightening the nut to hold the wire in place.

80MGB

Thanks guys,

Jerry, sorry I missed your original thread when searching - very thorough indeed!

I haven't figured out the way I'd like to do it, but mounting it high inside the windshield is my preference at the moment since I'm inclined to want to take it with me (Feckman, sounds like that's what you've done). That being said, I'm going to give it a few weeks to keep the ideas coming without rushing into doing something that's not exactly what I want.

JerryS4

How about a photo of what it looks like inside the car?

S4Rules

Which switched fuse did you use?

Thanks!
Paul