Radar hardwire

Again I couldn't help myself. My current setup is with the cigarette lighter as seen here. Now this works, but I'm not a fan of having the power cord hang in front of my radio as well as my MP3 player. It makes for an annoyance and if you want to be an extremist you could possible reason it is unsafe. I also cannot see the Alert light which comes in handy if I have the radar display blacked out and muted, which does happen every now and then.

Since my car doesn't have all of the optional packages such as traction control, trip computers, and all the other fancy gizmos that the turbo and GLT versions came with I have several of these black switch covers. My idea is to cut out a section on one of them and fit a hard wired version of the switch into place. Escort makes a hardwiring kit without the integrated mute button and indicator lights, but this is a convenience that I wish to keep.

Tomorrow I'm going to pick up a few of these switch plates because I'm sure I'll screw at least one up.