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post Aug 20, 2008 - 9:47 AM
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Does anyone have a decent guide on how to wire this car up? I really dont know where to start frown.gif
 
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post Aug 21, 2008 - 5:21 PM
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When you are facing the front of your car with the hood (bonnet, right?) up, on the right side of the firewall you will see a black rubber grommet with a wiring harness going through it. (I can see it in one of the photos you posted) Run your amp power cable through that grommet - you'll have to kind of wiggle it in there, but once you get it through it should pass through rather easily. Feed as much of it in there as you can without actually losing the end you're holding of course... and then go to the inside of your car and look around for the wire. On US cars, the wire would come through right below our steering column, but since your steering column is on the wrong side tongue.gif it'll probably be somewhere beneath your glove box. I assume your battery is located on the right hand (your passenger side) of your engine bay as well? This should give you a pretty straight line from the battery to the entry point on the firewall.

From there, assuming you are mounting your amplifier in your trunk (I just can't bring myself to say boot, sorry), you can run the cable beneath the door sill (the plastic strip that runs along the edge of your carpet when the door is open). The door sill just pulls up, there are plastic tabs holding it in place. Then the carpet, which has a plastic rail along its edge, just lifts up, and you will see other wiring down in there, where you can run your wiring as well. Continue it by running it behind the trim in the back seat, probably then beneath your seat (I have a hatch back, not a coupe, so I'm not sure about this part) and into your trunk.

You can also run your remote lead from the back of your stereo the same way - behind the stereo deck, along the inside of that firewall (beneath the carpet), and along that trim to the back. Naturally you're going to need to purchase some extra wiring and some wiring connectors to achieve this. GET THE WIRE CONNECTORS - don't just twist the wiring together, that's just cheesy. 16 or 18 awg wiring should be sufficient for this I believe.


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Posts in this topic
- sanjuk   Help with wiring   Aug 20, 2008 - 9:47 AM
- - Spider77   Wire what up?   Aug 20, 2008 - 3:39 PM
|- - sanjuk   QUOTE (Spider77 @ Aug 20, 2008 - 4:3...   Aug 20, 2008 - 4:08 PM
- - D-Man   you need to know how to wire a radio? You dont ne...   Aug 20, 2008 - 4:09 PM
|- - sanjuk   QUOTE (D-Man @ Aug 20, 2008 - 5...   Aug 20, 2008 - 5:30 PM
- - Spider77   Wow, a 4 gauge remote wire would be insane! S...   Aug 20, 2008 - 7:11 PM
|- - sanjuk   QUOTE (Spider77 @ Aug 20, 2008 - 8:1...   Aug 20, 2008 - 7:14 PM
- - goferris   the boot is what us americans call the trunk of th...   Aug 20, 2008 - 8:40 PM
|- - sanjuk   QUOTE (goferris @ Aug 20, 2008 - 9:4...   Aug 21, 2008 - 5:51 AM
- - CelicaST_CALI   just take out the amp for the speakers... go to ...   Aug 20, 2008 - 9:42 PM
- - D-Man   Run a wire from your head units ACC (red usualy) t...   Aug 21, 2008 - 8:13 AM
|- - sanjuk   QUOTE (D-Man @ Aug 21, 2008 - 9...   Aug 21, 2008 - 8:36 AM
- - D-Man   A toggle switch, so that you maintain manuel contr...   Aug 21, 2008 - 8:43 AM
|- - sanjuk   QUOTE (D-Man @ Aug 21, 2008 - 9...   Aug 21, 2008 - 8:57 AM
- - D-Man   I didn't. I ran threw a hole in the driver sid...   Aug 21, 2008 - 9:06 AM
|- - sanjuk   QUOTE (D-Man @ Aug 21, 2008 - 10...   Aug 21, 2008 - 9:17 AM
- - Spider77   I think im going to refer to my trunk as a boot fr...   Aug 21, 2008 - 3:12 PM
- - sanjuk   So i took my glovebox off.. No sign of a hole fo...   Aug 21, 2008 - 3:13 PM
- - D-Man   Dude, you realy just gotta figure it out. That...   Aug 21, 2008 - 3:44 PM
|- - sanjuk   QUOTE (D-Man @ Aug 21, 2008 - 4...   Aug 21, 2008 - 3:57 PM
|- - D-Man   QUOTE (sanjuk @ Aug 21, 2008 - 3:57 ...   Aug 21, 2008 - 4:49 PM
- - sanjuk   ooo I tried it to put it through the the gap from ...   Aug 21, 2008 - 4:59 PM
- - GriffGirl   When you are facing the front of your car with the...   Aug 21, 2008 - 5:21 PM
|- - sanjuk   QUOTE (GriffGirl @ Aug 21, 2008 - 6...   Aug 21, 2008 - 5:37 PM
- - sanjuk   right.. I cut a hole in the grommit.wire started ...   Aug 23, 2008 - 9:59 AM
- - Spider77   Yeah, running it there causes it to get pinched......   Aug 23, 2008 - 12:29 PM
|- - sanjuk   QUOTE (Spider77 @ Aug 23, 2008 - 1:2...   Aug 23, 2008 - 12:43 PM
- - Spider77   Im not too sure how yours is set up, I ran mine by...   Aug 23, 2008 - 2:51 PM
- - sanjuk   with the aid of a chopstick..... ..Success:D I...   Aug 24, 2008 - 8:39 AM


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