I need to do this to ease pairing of a bluetooth adapter I got. I dont have the ambient lighting package if that makes a difference. Not looking to replace the "always on" 12v socket in the console, but add another one.
Anyone put in a 12V socket in the console thats on only when the key is on?
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Edit, just reread title.
what kind of issue are you having with blue tooth? My phone recognizes as soon as im in my car and using pandora or anything is just a click through the menu button.
what kind of issue are you having with blue tooth? My phone recognizes as soon as im in my car and using pandora or anything is just a click through the menu button.
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I have the base gt, I added a belkin adapter to allow hands free talking/music playing and want the belkin unit to totally power down when I shut off the car
Ah, ok. Figured you may of had a premium. I'm sure you can get an acc socket from an electronic store and wire that in.
You could easily wire the one in the console to come one with key with the addition of a simple relay. This would be the easiest option.
Parts required
Directed Electronics 8618 Mini Relay (should be available at any car audio shop)
either butt connectors or solder for making your connections.
Remove the shift knob.
Pop the center console top up by opening the storage compartment, then grabbing the top and pulling up. Unplug the connector at the front for TCS, trunk and hazards (one connector). With no ambient lighting that should be the only one to unplug.
Lift top out of way and set aside.
Find your 12v power point plug. It should be gray, and have 2 wires coming out of it. One will be gray/red and the other will be black/yellow. Cut the gray/red about 4 inches back from the plug.
Connect the yellow wire from your 8616 relay to the vehicle side of the gray/red wire. Connect the brown wire from your 8616 to the connector side of the gray/red wire.
Connect the black wire from your 8616 to the black/yellow wire.
Near where the shifter is should be a 6 pin plug not connected to anything (not the connector you unplugged from the hazard switch). In pin 5, there will be a white/blue wire. Connect the red wire from your relay to this wire.
Reassemble everything.
When you turn your key on, the relay will energize and power on the 12v socket in the console. When you turn the key off, the 12v socket will shut down.
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Forgot to mention, cut short and insulate the orange wire on the 8616 relay.
Parts required
Directed Electronics 8618 Mini Relay (should be available at any car audio shop)
either butt connectors or solder for making your connections.
Remove the shift knob.
Pop the center console top up by opening the storage compartment, then grabbing the top and pulling up. Unplug the connector at the front for TCS, trunk and hazards (one connector). With no ambient lighting that should be the only one to unplug.
Lift top out of way and set aside.
Find your 12v power point plug. It should be gray, and have 2 wires coming out of it. One will be gray/red and the other will be black/yellow. Cut the gray/red about 4 inches back from the plug.
Connect the yellow wire from your 8616 relay to the vehicle side of the gray/red wire. Connect the brown wire from your 8616 to the connector side of the gray/red wire.
Connect the black wire from your 8616 to the black/yellow wire.
Near where the shifter is should be a 6 pin plug not connected to anything (not the connector you unplugged from the hazard switch). In pin 5, there will be a white/blue wire. Connect the red wire from your relay to this wire.
Reassemble everything.
When you turn your key on, the relay will energize and power on the 12v socket in the console. When you turn the key off, the 12v socket will shut down.
EDIT:
Forgot to mention, cut short and insulate the orange wire on the 8616 relay.
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Amazing! Just the info I needed!!!!!
Good god macgyver does it hurt then all that info just spews out so perfectly?
LOL. Id love to make the between the dash socket ignition only.....so Ill throw that out there for ideas!
My GPS is hooked to it, thinking Ill run a separate wire to the GPS through the dash though instead of reworking that socket
Not even close to being perfect. Just have a job where I am good at what I love to do.
Same concept. You can use the same relay. I dont know the wire colors off the top of my head and Im being lazy, but if you look at the wires going to the dash mounted 12v socket, one will be a black/something, and the other is a color/color. The color/color is your +12. Wire the relay the same way here, and there you go.
I take it this white/blue wire is a switched 12 volt source. Is there any reason I can't connect my QTP electric exhaust cutouts directly to this rather than going through a relay?
It's safer to go through a relay but yes you can, the risk is the wire shorting out and starting a fire. Been there done that, on a previous car.
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