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The green / brown wire on the bottom right corner of the connector in your photo (slot # 1) should be the power for the mirror, from the passenger junction box, fuse 17. See attached.
Black wire in slot # 3 is your ground.
Well that worked out just fine! Thanks again! If anyone wants to do the same I used a 15inch mirror tap off Amazon. It was 40 dollars but worth every penny.
how did you pop off the side of the rear view mirror cover? mirror tap means 15 inch or 1.5 inch? I might just try just your regular wiretap.
Just took a very small flat head screwdriver and started at the top where the headliner is. Pull towards the driver side and it will pop right off. And yes 15inch works perfect.
Just took a very small flat head screwdriver and started at the top where the headliner is. Pull towards the driver side and it will pop right off. And yes 15inch works perfect.
Which wires did you tap into? Looks like a very neat job.
Saturday morning project. I moved my trusty Uniden R3 radar detector and dash cam from my dearly departed LR4, to the Defender. Unlike the LR4 I could not find a suitable place to hardwire either above the overhead console - lots of wires and plenty of room up there, but everything is encased in plastic and I could not find a grounded bolt to connect these devices to. So, I installed a couple of fuse tap piggybacks in the passenger fuse box compartment using the 5 amp receptacles for wireless phone charger (F11) for the camera and the 5 amp receptacle for the air ionizer (F52) for the radar detector. Wired that way, the dash cam will turn on when you unlock the car or open a door, and turn off when you lock the car (or about 5 minutes later if you don't lock it.) The radar detector will turn on when you start the engine and turn off when you shut if off, both of which are fine.
Running wires was fairly easy with a couple of plastic tools, along the roof liner's front edge (camera) or bottom windshield (detector,) then down the RH A-pillar cover and into the fuse box compartment to connect to the two piggyback taps. There are some grounding screw available there. I used this video on YouTube as a reference, removing the side panel as shown in the video makes installation a breeze: https://youtu.be/a21drm3CYcU
