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General => Car audio => Topic started by: kt_gti on 16 March 2007, 12:58
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Hi Guys
I have a mk3 golf and i am having great trouble getting the power cable from the passenger footwell through to the battery i have run out of ideas can anyone help plaese????? :huh:
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Take the carpet away from the bulk head and see if you can find a cable to "Piggy back" the power cable on, there must be one somewhere :undecided:
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Yea, just dont use any of the heater pipe holes! :grin:
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it should be easy, mine was, its a cab though, it you look on the bulk head kind of to the left of the battery there should be a plastic bung thing, about the size of a mug round, pop it out (you may have to push it instead, it wont go anywhere dont worry!) and punch a hole straight through it, push through the firewall fabric stuff behind the plastic bung and just pop the wire through from the engine bay side and it will appear in the passenger footwell. be careful using the existing wires to 'piggyback' off as the wire to that point may not be high enough rated to cope with the amp, depends what amp. one of the easiest cars i have done this in! the hard bit was attaching it onto the existing battery terminal, with all the other wires.
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hope the pictures help!
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tommk3cab I think you have miss understood what I was trying to say, when I say "piggyback" what I mean is that you run your live wire along with or on top of another wire through the bulk head and into the footwell. I'm am not suggesting in any way that someone should cut into an existing part of the loom and use that as a live feed for a amp or any other piece of audio equipment, just thought I would clarify :wink:
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i see now, sorry! my mistake, i thought you were suggesting that there is some kind of point there under the carpet to use, apparantly there is on some golfs and i have seen this suggested before! heres a link to it
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=56075.0
I would definatly say this would be a bad idea as the standard wiring to this point will be far too thin, i would have thought.
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If you find a cable with enough slack you can pull it back into the footwell then tape the amp cable onto the cable and pull it back through the grommet! easy :)
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If you find a cable with enough slack you can pull it back into the footwell then tape the amp cable onto the cable and pull it back through the grommet! easy :)
unfortunatly, like he said finding one at all is very hard, the ones where all the loom go through are pretty well hidden.