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Old 11-16-2008, 11:41 AM   #8 (permalink)
92gli
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Originally Posted by TexasK20Z View Post
The sunroof wire has power after the key is turned off... for like 5 minutes or until you open the door. You can open/close windows and the sunroof after the key is off... but not once the door is open.
Thats not true on the '08s. Trust me, I know what I'm doing and I was banging my friggen head on the steering wheel the day I did mine. It seems to be different on 06s and 07s, but on an 08 if you tap into the sunroof wire the detector never turns off.

I ended up doing it how vlad did it, with the addition of a remote display tucked into the cubby in front of the shifter. Its really better to do into the fuse block anyway.
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