your accessory wire from the radio isn't hooked up to the accessory wire from the car, it's connected to a wire that has power at all times (the yellow battery wire probably).

or maybe it's a setting in the HU, I haven't messed with eclipse. Read the manual and see if it has a setting that requires you to press the power button to turn the radio off.

Is the radar detector plugged into an output wire of the HU or the accessory wire?

 

your accessory wire from the radio isn't hooked up to the accessory wire from the car, it's connected to a wire that has power at all times (the yellow battery wire probably).

Rip that thing out and install it correctly.

 

You probably just mixed up ignition wire and acc wire, just change em, but you should use a test light, or multimeter on it if you are unsure which wires are what. And as for previous quotes, don't use color to determine your hook ups, ALL CARS ARE DIFFERNT RED IS NOT ALWAYS POWER AND YELLOW IS NOT ALWAYS ACC, look up wire diagrams, or use proper guides or plugs.

 

ALL CARS ARE DIFFERNT RED IS NOT ALWAYS POWER AND YELLOW IS NOT ALWAYS ACC, look up wire diagrams, or use proper guides or plugs.

This is true, but hopefully he's using a harness kit and not t-clamping the HU's wires directly to the factory harness. To my knowledge, all aftermarket HUs and harness kits go by a standard (black=ground; red=accessory; yellow=constant +;even the speaker wire colors should be the same). This makes installation easier allowing you to match the wire colors and be done.

To Uranium980:

You did use a harness kit, right?

 

i did do a harness kit.
I read stuff last night and i realized that the eclipse harness came with like 2 wires that confused me. It has an acc wire, and a amp turn on wire. I figured amp turn on meant switched 12v, and so those wires are mixed up. going to fix it now.

thanks for the help guys!

 

right on show us some pics

 

will do as soon as the unit is in my car.
he decided to get something else and sold this to me pretty cheap.