ok i found the perfect spot for my gps but i have to have the power cable running across my dash and that sucks. does any one know a good place i could tap in for power for it? i need it so it only gets power when the key is on.

 

It would be helpful if you told us where this "perfect spot" is. That way someone could offer up a nearby power wire.

 

I'm about to hard wire my garmin this week sometime. I am making a mount up to sit in the dash tray. I'm running the hard wire down and plan on hooking into one of the power currents there. I should have enough to choose from.

 

Here's mine. You can see the small hole I drilled and hard wired it to the radio power source.

 

looks good man.. how hard is it to run the wires or get that top piece off?

 

You can get to the wiring by pulling off the front dash around the radio

 

im mounting mine right in the drivers side corner of the dash

 

I use to have my GPS way up on the left side of the windshield so it was sort of hidden by the sun shading. I installed a 3 way power splitter under my dash and tapped into my existing outlet wiring. Then I routed the GPS cable through the dash to the splitter. I did this by pulling off the door vent panel where the dash ducts air to the door and pulled the cable through there. No need to ruin the cable to hardwire plus I gain extra outlets.

 

i was thinking of tapping in to the cig lighter.

 

Did this in my 98 and installed a 3 dollar cigarette lighter plug behind the dash and tapped into the power source for my radio. I mounted the unit in the upper left corner of the windsheild and ran the wire across the dash below the gauges then up behind the a pillar and out by the unit.