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One thing I would love is a canbus integrated radar. - Where the display shows up on the DIC and the vehicle chimes give the warning. Plus, if you listen to your music loudly, it can turn down the volume during the warning and back up again.

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Well disregard the previous post - as is the radar detector will not work in the daytime lol! It only works when the nighttime ambient light is triggered.   Back to the drawing board. I removed the

rdtpp1991
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I installed the Blendmount and MirrorTap for my V1 tonight...took about 15 mins. If you have powered OnStar mirror and no lane departure it is really easy. There is a harness in cover that goes from

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you should be able to pop off the whole cover, not just the #2 part, that will get you to the plug easier....   check this out...about 35 seconds into the video....  

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Twowheeler New Member

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Everything was going well till I removed the screws and tried to pull the front friction keepers loose , obviously there have been some late year mods to this roof consul. This is a 2014 Denali just purchased just delivered to the dealer last week ?? HELP.........Thx.

Twowheeler New Member

Twowheeler

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Hey guys, new to GM-Trucks forum. Long time tundra guy who made the switch and freakin love the truck! Wanted to give help to anyone looking to do this mod. The difficult part was finding instructions on how to remove the mirror and plastic covering for the Lane departure warning system. (attachment). Once you remove the plastic pieces covering the mirror you can remove the mirror with the allen wrench to unplug the connection.

 

The plug taps for the onstar mirror are 1) 12V hot is Pin #2 Violet with green stripe wire 2) Ground is Pin # 5 solid black wire.

 

I used the blend mount in my prior vehicles so decided to stick with this. It cost more than the others (performance package and rogue mounts). You can use the mirror tap or cheaper invisicord. I chose to go with the latter (invisicord #N01PL micro version 16 inch with fuse). 12 inch length could work but make sure you use the micro connector taps. Not a difficult to do. Be careful when removing plastic piece number 2 on the diagram. The side tabs can stretch and break easily. other than that a piece of cake...

I'll use this, got exactly the same truck and In Ms as well must be the water. Thx

bass mechanic Enthusiast

bass mechanic

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It's actually a lot easier to run your power wire down the A pillar to the fuse box on the drivers side dash. You don't need any tools and you don't have to splice or tap into anything. It took me less than 5 minutes to install it.

 

 

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citius Enthusiast

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Sorry about reviving an old thread, but if you have a Valentine 1 and see a cop turn off the detector. The police can detect the Val1. I got a ticket recently and afterwards I called Valentine and they told me there was nothing they could do about it. I think Bell is the only vendor that makes a radar detector that is totally invisible to all radar detector detectors.

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MikeNH Senior Enthusiast

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Radar detectors are perfectly legal in most states. Granted if stopped they don't help the officer feel motivated to issue a warning but the states that ban them (and Canada) you're risking it to use any of the detectors.

Twowheeler New Member

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Well disregard the previous post - as is the radar detector will not work in the daytime lol! It only works when the nighttime ambient light is triggered.

 

Back to the drawing board. I removed the old setup and this time removed the entire overhead console - not just the panel. There are two T10 screws to remove:

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Then there are two friction fit tabs up front that just pull straight down.

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There is a main wiring harness to the overhead console on the left side that you can disconnect.

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Testing all the wiring shows that the black wire is a good ground, and the leftmost purple wire with white stripe is a good 12v positve that directly is triggered by the ignition. Engine on, power on; engine off, power off.

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Just an extra step but now all seems to work properly. I think the purple wire with white stripe is the power lead to the passenger airbag light on the overhead console.

Got it all done getting 12v at the connectors ready to light up the detector but my detectors (I have 2 V1's) won't light up . I get 12v all the way to the V1 pig tail no problem , tried both detectors on the old dash plug in and they both worked. All connections are tight. HELP Thx

bass mechanic Enthusiast

bass mechanic

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Dude! Just tap into the fuse box on the drivers side. Remove the side panel on the end of the dash while the drivers door is open

 

 

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Mutau95 Enthusiast

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I used this thread to locate a 12v source in the overhead console to wire my dash cam. Didn't want run the wire all the way to the fuse panel. My truck is an LTZ CC with sunroof and sliding rear glass and home link. The OP instructions to tap the purple and white wire didn't work for me. When I connected as mentioned above the fuse blew in my camera connector. I used my voltmeter and saw the purple and white was reading 14.7 volts...which was odd. For my truck the Black wire as ground worked but I had to tap the purple and yellow wire along the bottom of the large connector for a 12v source that turned off with the ignition.

 

Very easy install and the camera is discretely hidden behind the mirror beside the factory front collision sensor.

 

Hope this helps

Skeeter McSkeet Senior Enthusiast

Skeeter McSkeet

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Sorry about reviving an old thread, but if you have a Valentine 1 and see a cop turn off the detector. The police can detect the Val1. I got a ticket recently and afterwards I called Valentine and they told me there was nothing they could do about it. I think Bell is the only vendor that makes a radar detector that is totally invisible to all radar detector detectors.

Escort redline is what you're talking about. It's saved me in tickets well over what I paid for it. Took it through virginia undetected a few times as well, works great!

 

 

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Mike1220 Senior Enthusiast

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Escort redline is what you're talking about. It's saved me in tickets well over what I paid for it. Took it through virginia undetected a few times as well, works great!

 

 

-Skeet

Cobra also has a few that will detect a "radar detector" detector and will shut themself off. My old one did that and not sure about my current detector. I am debating between hardwiring Mine in but putting a switch and leaving it in the cig lighter since I don't know if it'll turn off if detected since I drive mostly in LA and they don't care here

 

 

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Skeeter McSkeet Senior Enthusiast

Skeeter McSkeet

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Those redlined have something in them to be undetectable yet stay on the entire time as well. Escort has the smartphone app too you can use with it, so sweet lol.

 

 

-Skeet

Mike1220 Senior Enthusiast

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Those redlined have something in them to be undetectable yet stay on the entire time as well. Escort has the smartphone app too you can use with it, so sweet lol.

 

 

-Skeet

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My current cobra has the smartphone app [emoji4] it's the cobra iRadar and it's great. A few people in my area must use it cause I always get updates when driving when a cop is upcoming before the radar even pics up the cop. Also shows me where all red light and speed cameras are! That has certainly saved me from several tickets!

 

 

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Edit: oh and the camera notifications have also allowed me to slow down and watch a few other people get tickets from the cameras [emoji23] I actually got one guy to race me and I hit the brakes just before triggering the camera and he got a ticket since he didn't see the camera [emoji23] he was easily going 50-55 in a 35 since the camera was only a few seconds (if traveling at 35MPH past the light)

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Spurshot Senior Enthusiast

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I used this thread to locate a 12v source in the overhead console to wire my dash cam. Didn't want run the wire all the way to the fuse panel. My truck is an LTZ CC with sunroof and sliding rear glass and home link. The OP instructions to tap the purple and white wire didn't work for me. When I connected as mentioned above the fuse blew in my camera connector. I used my voltmeter and saw the purple and white was reading 14.7 volts...which was odd. For my truck the Black wire as ground worked but I had to tap the purple and yellow wire along the bottom of the large connector for a 12v source that turned off with the ignition.

 

Very easy install and the camera is discretely hidden behind the mirror beside the factory front collision sensor.

 

Hope this helps

 

The fully charged battery might make 14.7v.

 

I'm looking at my dashcam. It uses a mini USB connector. That screams 5 volts to me.

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Mutau95 Enthusiast

Mutau95

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You are probably correct. Not sure what options were in the OP's overhead console which may make a difference in the connector as I tried the purple and white wire as my 12v postive but only the purple and yellow worked and had the proper voltage. I purchased a 3 dollar female cigarette port and put that behind the panel and plugged in the cigarette plug that came with the camera since it reduced the voltage to 5v. Im sure I could have taken the connector apart and made solder connections but this worked just fine with the wire taps and didn't take very long.

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