where to mount the hot wire and ground wire in a 2011 freightliner cascadia

You rally ought to have someone do it for you.

 

Sometimes the wires can both be yellow, but have little tags on them. Look for "ACC" or "Accessories". You can get a voltage tester, and hook the ground to anything metal, then touch the ends of any wires you see, to find out if it is live. The ground wire from the radio can be attached to any metal part of the truck. Cascadias are Negative ground trucks.

 

Im having the same issue with my 2011 freightliner. Not to sure where to hookup the +and - wires. I got a bit of a handle ful of wires up there next to my antenna wire i dont want to just go cutting wires.

 

They were green and yellow in our Cascadias. I don't remember which one is hot because I always check with a test light.

 

Go direct to battery with 8ga awag wire..Unless you have higher power needs the go 4ga..

 

I
high current/ import radio
n the one I had the fuse box was behind the glove box, which had 3 1/4x20 studs, switched/hot/ and gnd. make sure to fuse your wires within 6 inches of the connection where you pickup power.

 

Up in the radio hole , behind the clearence light there should be a pigtail, red/black wires with a molex connector. this is where freightshakker hooks up the factory cobra radio

 

One wire us usually always hot,secondary wire hot only with ignition,and a ground wire.

 

Craig, you keep forgetting an important point - ALWAYS fuse the wire at the battery.