🚨 Enhance Your Uniden Radar Detector with the Uniden RDA-HDWKT Smart Hardwire Kit: Mute Button, LED Alert, and Power LED for Uniden Models R7, R3, R1, DFR9, DFR8, DFR7, and DFR6 Review

I definitely like the idea of hardwiring and have experience installing DVRs and the like. There are no instructions included with this kit and while I knew what I was doing it might not have been as easy for others without experience with a tee or safety tap. Inside the box was a small plastic bag with Velcro closure and a T-tap. If you don't know what a T-Tap is, you can watch a YouTube video that shows how to connect the T to a power cord. I'm not a big fan of the T-Tap as you need some…

I needed a cord set for my Uniden R3 because I was tired of the cord hanging off the windshield and getting in the way. (Why else, right?) I chose the Uniden kit because it has a mute button for convenient muting of the device when needed. Installation is relatively easy, especially if you have the fuse box next to the dash on the driver's side on the A-pillar like on my Sierra. I simply routed a flat phone cord under the ceiling and door panel to the fuse box with a plastic trim tool. When you

This allowed me to plug in the Uniden and access the mute button somewhere other than the radar or cigarette lighter. What I didn't like was the quality of the included wire taps. There are better ones that are still much cheaper. The ground wire wasn't even considered a tap (you're expected to mount it with a screw on the end piece). To solve the ground wire problem and keep it clean, the wires I was connected to I found the ground wire and used my own coupler. Finally, I wish the phone/power…

I definitely like the wiring idea and have experience installing dashcams and the like. There are no instructions included with this kit and while I knew what I was doing it might not have been as easy for others without experience with a tee or safety tap. Inside the box was a small plastic bag with Velcro closure and a T-tap. If you don't know what a T-Tap is, you can watch a YouTube video that shows how to connect the T to a power cord. I'm not a big fan of the T-Tap as you need some…

and interfere. (Why else, right?) I chose the Uniden kit because it has a mute button for convenient muting of the device when needed. Installation is relatively easy, especially if you have the fuse box next to the dash on the driver's side on the A-pillar like on my Sierra. I simply routed a flat phone cord under the ceiling and door panel to the fuse box with a plastic trim tool. When you buy a tap for your fuse type, simply find a circuit fuse, pull it out, insert the tap, Replace the fuse…