hi guys, i have a passport 8500 X50, i am attempting to hard wire it and decided to use the telephone plug that is behind the storage bin, like some mentioned, i hooked up the power cable to the switched red and green wire like mentioned in the write up and the ground to the brown wire from the telephone plug, i checked both the inline fuse on the detector and the fuse in the cars fuse box, both are good, but i still don't have any power to the radar detector....
this is the write up i used:
http://gallery.rennlist.com/gallery/albur30

any help would be apreciated!
thanks

 

I did mine over a year ago using the same Passport unit and I wired it to the power cable used by the lights on the overhead console. Took me about 30 minutes total.

 

well i got it done, there ar ea few reasons it took longer then it was supposed to:
-first kirby has in his write up that the red and green is switched, that is not the case, it is the green and black that is switched.
-then the bloody smart cord that i got was messed, it was wired backwards, the ground was actually the live and the live wire that had the fuse inline was actually supposed to be a ground!!
figured this by testing the little pins on the end that looks like a telephone jack, and the live and ground were different (swaped)as compared to the cigerette lighter plug in....
so i had to do some cutting an splicing, but got it all done, and decided to keep the detector just above the dash, for better detection, and since mine is a targa, it does not fit abouve the rearview mirror!
thanks for the input !!
Shalil

 

oops, did I get the colors backwards?

 

Kirby, ya seems as tho the green and black is the switched one, and the green and red one is the unswitched one, i just assumed that it may be a diff in the years but i doubt it

 

ok made the change