I found a Radio Shack that was going out of business, so i picked up the outlets for 3 bucks each. Total install time was about 45 minutes and 3 beers.
Thats awesome! I hate only having the one 12v in the front. Where did you connect the power to?
I needed more than just another one up front, and thought of an easy way, doesn't look stock, but why would I want to look stock. I installed a 3 outlet accessory so I now have 4 up front. Simple wiring into the back of the existing one (don't need a lot of juice, just enough for phone chargers, detector, and misc. items). Going to add a couple in back sometime similar to as done here, with the two above the 110 outlet.
Here's a pic of mine up front.
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I actually bought 4 of these below... I just have not installed them yet, I am thinkin' 1 in the back by SubW... 1 in back seat are in center console, 1 in the front in the consoul... Just to be convenient !!! [of course I will not be using the metal mount ]
I did see one simular to that external on, and my thought was to take it apart and mount the face plate flat on the center console somewhere, but i wanted the covers so i don't put dimes in it and cause the same problem i did in my ford with the ash tray cig lighter
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I have picked up 4 snap in outlets from RadioShack ($6.99 ea.) and still have yet to have time to do this... But I needto get at least one in for my dang phone to stay charged... All yaneed to do is make a hole, hook the wires and tadaaa' (Just discard the metal frame that comes with it...)
I took the fast and easy route and added this up front. It fits in front of the 4WD shifter on the console below the original 12V outlet. I now have power to my GPS, phone, and a spare outlet. I'll get a photo.
My dash 12V power outlet does not work. Tried three different car chargers in it and no juice. Does anyone know where/what fuse I need to check. I looked in the manual and it looks like it's a 7.5 amp fuse, I just don't know if it's in the main fuse box under the hood or the aux fuse block in the FJ.
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My dash 12V power outlet does not work. Tried three different car chargers in it and no juice. Does anyone know where/what fuse I need to check. I looked in the manual and it looks like it's a 7.5 amp fuse, I just don't know if it's in the main fuse box under the hood or the aux fuse blhttp://www.brockandbecca.com/files/fj/ock in the FJ.
Check out page 24 of the wiring diagram. You can get it here:
I added another 12v behind the dash for my GPS Garim C550. The 12v was added a few weeks ago while I was waiting for the GPS, so I don't have the ground point in a pic, but if you were succesfull with installing the first 12v then this is alot easier.
I pulled open the fuse panel and installed a 12v socket right into the fuse panel. On the end of the pos wire I crimped on a connector and then trimmed the plastic down and pinch the metal end until it was small enough to fit into the top of a fuse slot. The fuse slot I used powers on and off with the FJ, there were one or two others empties I tried that were constant power.
I ran the neg wire to one of the factory ground points, you need to wiggle and pull towards you the foot rest, it just pops off, then where the foot rest was, to the bottom left of it is a plastic screw you just turn it with your hand. Then pull off the plastic panel that goes under the doors, now you can just pull off the panel in the pic, the ground point is obvious and right behind it.
Here's everything neatly tucked behind the dash
To run the GPS wire end, I pulled off the left vent, the whole silver piece just pulls towards you. Then I took the cover off the tweeter and took the 2 bolts out and unplugged/removed the tweeter, then I pulled the cover for the vin# on the dash. You can see the black wire I ran behind the dash.
The hardest part was trying to get the plug pushed under and out through the tiny gap between the dash, windshield and vin# plate, the end of the connector was a rectangle, I was anticipating a round end, thus smaller. I used my panel remover to help push it up while I wiggled the end of the wire around. Then I ran the wire through the vin plate cover and snapped it back on
I put the speaker back in and put all the pieces back together. This is what it looks like when the GPS is not attached. I will by another power cord if I need to use the GPS in another vehicle.
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(Just discard the metal frame that comes with it...)
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