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well you'll find theres an accessories wire that goes to the back of your head unit.. i cant rememebr the colour of it off the top of my head. but with a multimetre it should register ~12v when the key is set to accesories or on .. wth my boost guage i wired it up to my illumination wire, as i didnt need to see the light on my guag unless it was dark and i had my head lights on too

but yeah.. unless someone can correct me i would just say get a terminal block and tap into the illumination or accesories wire on your headunit... however this may require the fuse to be changed with added load

-Ruffels

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cigarette lighter...

i used that as a remote wire in me landrover to wire up a amp/sub... only problem with it is when u got the keys out of the ignition and turn on the radio (only when im cleaning it ect) the sub dont come on... i was prepared to live with that so it was all good

hmm .. my deck isn't wired up so I can have the radio on with keys out .. but ciggie lighter is an easy spot to take 12v from .. cheers.

I'm probably going to go with this. I'm going to make a "harness", which will plug into the cigarette lighter harness to power my gauges. Benefit of this is it isn't permanent...

And, I don't smoke anyways.

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