Hey all...I just came from a 03 Maxima to a 04 g35 and in my max I had a wire in the fuse panel jumped Cigarette Lighter Plug jumped from another fuse in the panel in order to leave a battery plugged in and charging like I did in my old car. But When I did, the radio stayed on even after the key was turned off. So I thought it was pretty cool and that I could just turn the radio off and be fine...but needless to say the battery died while I was in Publix Super Market. But this is a must have for me. So tomorrow I'm going to try to use the drivers side, and hopefully it wont behave the same. I am going to check the FSM Wiring diagram tonight first to see if I can gain some foresight on this.

 

What did you find out?

 

Sorry for the super late response... but i pretty much just decided to cut the wires going to the passenger side one and run another 12v source to it since what I wanted to power stays in the glove compartment. I didnt want wires running across the shifter.

 

can you post some pics? maybe they will be up by christmas! j/k

 

If ya lucky

 

Please remove your negative terminal on your battery once u decide on what wire your going to use.

Ok well here we go. I first was planning on running a wire from under the hood, but after some though I figured it would be easier / a shorter run if I just found a wire in the car that already had constant power going to it by using either a test light or a multimeter.



And if you want to use another wire im sure one of these may work out well also


Im short on time but pictures are worth a thousand words, if you have any questions just post em. but it works.





Make sure u totally cut the positive wire so that you will not be sending a constant 12v signal to the rest of the components on the other side of the wire.







I should have used one of these to tap into the line to make it look clean, but I couldn't find them in the garage so I just used a razor to take the cable housing off. Its not like its going to be visible any how.





Ran the wire around the back


Connect it


Tested it


Finish

 

I destroyed my cigarette lighter and turned it into a nice little hidden USB plug compartment :-D Irrelevant? perhaps...

 

Thats pretty much what I use mines for. I just bought the little short usb duel plugs so that they dont poke out.



But I just needed one to stay on even when Im out of the car.



But im interested in seeing what u did though.

 

Pics of said carnage?

 

No pic's of the carnage haha. I didn't know older model G's have different cigarette lighters. Mine is just under the radio, above the shifter. Basically same thing pictured above, except in an 06's lighter. It fits a lot deeper into the slot though. I can still put the lighter in there (although it won't function the OEM way; nothing will happen xd).

 

O ok Ic what ur saying...I was interested in the hidden part. But it just flips up. Yours is pretty much in the ashtray where I keep all my change...lol

 

Yup! Sorry for the confusion xd.

 

Hi all,. I am just wondering would this be the best place to get constant power or is there a better wire to connect to since it's been 9 years later.