radar detector

max0011 · Post by **max0011** » Tue May 08, 2007 12:39 am

my 86 has a radar detector but its not connected so if any one can help

tfs2121 · Post by **tfs2121** » Tue May 08, 2007 1:37 pm

do you have the box in the engine bay? it should be between the radiator and the grill look for it and let me know

max0011 · Post by **max0011** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:35 am

yes but the wires under the dash are not connected up and i cant find were they go

Post by **negusm** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:49 am

I have an original manual....I will try and dig it out tonight.

max0011 · Post by **max0011** » Wed May 09, 2007 1:34 am

ok thanks

RARE-ASC · Post by **RARE-ASC** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:44 am

negusm wrote:I have an original manual....I will try and dig it out tonight.

Mike surprised you don't have that baby scanned and posted already.

Post by **negusm** » Wed May 09, 2007 4:59 am

Yeah, yeah. You guys should see the stack and a half of Capri/asc stuff I gotta scan. Its amazing that there was actually so much printed for such a little known car.

OK...

From the black box on the radiator support...

You have 3 wires. The black box has hard to read moulded printing for each terminal. The terminal nearest to the edge of the box is marked "Neg" (ground). This is also the skinniest terminal. The middle terminal is marked "Pos". The one most towards the center of the black box is marked "Sig" (for signal).

"Pos" and "Sig" (two inner terminals) run together in a "paired" wire to the dash control unit.

The control unit has 3 wires coming from it. The paired wire and two really thin wires. The paired wire is white striped at one side and this side connects to the signal wire from the box. The other side connects to the Positive wire from the box.

The other two thin wires go to either Ground or 12V. Now here's the kicker. The wires are EXACTLY the same coming out of the control panel. If you are lucky, one of them will already be tied to ground or the other will have a fuse in-line with it (meaning it would be the 12v wire). If not...short of opening the control panel, I have no idea how to figure out which goes where.

-Mike

tfs2121 · Post by **tfs2121** » Wed May 09, 2007 2:03 pm

boy mike your good... im not to sure if i remember seeing a ground on the panel on the inside but one of the skinny wires on the inside does have a fuse inline (atleast my car does...)

tfs2121 · Post by **tfs2121** » Wed May 09, 2007 2:25 pm

well i looked and the thin power and ground wires (yes mike was right) are taped up together so i couldent tell witch one was what but one of them has a female connector end and the other has a male end

if you want pics i can take them and post them up

max0011 · Post by **max0011** » Sat May 12, 2007 1:30 am

thanks pics would be good

tfs2121 · Post by **tfs2121** » Sat May 12, 2007 8:36 pm

will do just give me a few days