snoftall

I am looking to tap into the wire which goes to the reverse lights.

Does anyone know where I can find it. It needs to be an easilyy accessible location and near the front part of the car (i.e. the driver and front passenger seating areas) or preferably in the roof/headliner. Thanks in advance.

keiserX13

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What do you plan on doing?

snoftall

I need the signal from it to control something (turn something off) when the car is shifted into reverse, so it will not be drawing much current at all (so I don't need to worry about overloading the circuit).

kikal8

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well i know that the wiring goes through the floor under the driver seat. where exactly isk

Acey

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You can't splice into the hood fusebox to get it or you'll just get acc power... you might have to go the long route and just run a wire from the back.

snoftall

I was hoping to avoid this. I figured that there must be a wire somewhere between the ECM and the trunk, so I was hoping someone on here knew where it was and could quickly identify its location for me. If not, that is probably the only option I have!

snoftall

I'll see if I can pull the seat and take a look under the carpet to see if I can find any wires there. Thanks!

Anyone else know the exact location?

KUNITZ

If I recall, when I had to tap into this wire for my rear view camera, it was to the left of the driver seat on the floor, under the carpet. Its a greenish cable.

kikal8

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ya i couldve sworn that i had to do something with that wiring. thats y i know that ha. but i forget what it was. but im almost positive thats where it is. let us know man.

snoftall

Awesome! I'll take a look there and let you guys know! I'm heading out of town tomorrow so I probably won't be able to look for it until next weekend. Thanks for the info on the wire color and location!!

EmperorJJ1

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look up the alarm info for your yr balt and it might tell you an exact location for it. if i remember correctly mine was green white but i just tapped it at the trunk. lol i have it running to the radio but dont have a back up cam

c4w18

light green running from driver kickpanel into a harness to the rear. (+) trigger ofc.

and lol jj, ran it for the hell of it eh?

EmperorJJ1

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hell ya i like my video to be interrupted when i put it in reverse... lol n ha i planned or want to put a rear cam its just low on my to do list

snoftall

Pulled my seats out and took a bunch of panels off the car tonight. You were both right. The main wiring harness runs right along the left side of the driver side front seat. I checked the wire going into the reverse lights and it is a light green color. Only problem I have now is I noticed there are a couple light green colored wires in the harness...the shades are just slightly off from one another and it is difficult to tell which one is the right shade of light green! I'll have to test one to figure it out. Thanks again for the help!!

EmperorJJ1

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oh ya fyi we had a customer who was trying to tap the ebrake wire and out of the few he had he just guessed. turns out whatever he did was wrong and his door locks stopped working.

just be careful make sure to test it that its actually reverse. if you have a meter with long cords continuity test is always good

c4w18

yea, to be honest, easiest way to check is to probe that wire that you think is it, ground the negative probe, and see if you get a positive trigger on the meter, that is it goes from 0 v to 12 v when you put the car in reverse. just make sure your foot doesn't slip off the brake while you're juggling all this ****.

fattywhat

Well I have a kenwood dnx8120 double din and I'm trying to figure out where to run the reverse wire the purple one with out having it run all the way to the back

c4w18

driver running board....pop it off, wire is in that harness.