Running speaker wires into the doors
 

Just as help to other. It is possible to run new speaker wires into our doors trough the molex so no drilling of metal is neccassary.

I ran 14 guage monster cable wire into mine. Basicly I ran wires directrly from the amp. At the molex, plastic white clips in the door jam, remove the rubber boot and use a pick to depress the rounded areas of the molex ot relaease it, Basiclty the 1,5,7,11 o'clock positions and the molex will come out. Their are 2 side of each molex so pull up a the top release tab and thay will come apart. In the left door their is a nice open area of 4 pins that are unused, drill them out I tok out 2 at a time with a 1/4 drill bit. untill the speaker wires fit throught. then in the same posistion on the cars side molex drill out the same area. Slap the clipps back together and make sure the wire fits through. When it fits runthe wire inside of the car up thought the hole of the molex in the sheet metal then trought the molex then the rubber boot into the door. Replace the boot on the molex and slap the molex back in the door. DONE!

On the passanger side do the same except their is a wire from the cars side in the clip that goes no where on the doors side, I ut it back and taped it off to be safe. then just do the same as the drivers side door.

This was done on my MP3 and on a Protege 5 I worked on, Some cars may be different so if their is a wire on both side of the clip, DONT DRILL IT OUT! Also don't drill throught the center the retaining clips has to go through there to hold the two sides together.

Do we absolutely have to drill ??? There's no left space in that rubber tube ???

I plan to install Van Den Hul - Sky Line Hybrid wire (the blue one) if you want to view it look at http://www.vandenhul.com/cable/skyln-h.htm

I want to know if I will have to drill or not.

I guest that if you choose to drill that's because you've looked at other simplier solution, so I will have to drill, that's bad, I hate drilling in my car.

If you want to see my sub wire here it is http://www.vandenhul.com/cable/cs-122-h.htm

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the white molex consumes the opening in the sheet metal of the car and the rubber boot wrapps tightly around it so their is no area to pass by either thus you must go through them. Its realy no that diffuclut to do, you just drill out som plastic.

Re: Running speaker wires into the doors
 

Great Description here! Good job and hopefully others will use this!
This is what I had to do with my fronts to run Phoenix speaker wire....
It is teadious, but, if one takes their time, then it is easily doable...

Vandehul wire for car audio? I though I was bad using Kimber in cars! What is you total setup, I am curious now- :cool:

That's great! Now we have a solution to the dental-floss-thin factory speaker wires. Doesn't seem that difficult to do also, just have to be careful.

Thanks for the info!

Eventualy I am either swapping to a 3 way or I am going to add another 6 1/2 in the doors either way at that time I will get some pictures of what I had done.

My setup isn't really impressive, but play very well for my ears...

I don't remember all parts number...

I will list items in order they are routed

Note that this setup isn't actually in my car, I'm waiting for the alarm/starter to be installed (back order).

HEAD UNIT : Kenwood KDC-7007 (No MP3, but 24 bit convertissor)
SOUND PROCESS : Phoenix Gold 15 Band EQ with active cross over

All RCA Cable are great quality, but the front amp RCA cable are directional one, they cost more, but they are "sound transparent".

FRONT SETUP
- AMP : Pioneer 4x65 Mosfet bridged to drive front speakers
- WIRE : Van Den Hul SKY LINE HYBRID from the trunk to front, even the tweeters have been rewired.
- Passive crossover Nakamichi
- MB Quart 7" Woofer
- Nakamichi Tweeter

SUB SETUP
- AMP : Orion Cobalt CO-465 4x65 Bridged 2 channel to drive sub
- WIRE : Van Den Hul CS-122
- SUB : JL Audio 10W3-D4 (Double 4Ohm voice coil)
- ENCLOSURE : MDF 3/4, Ported (don't remember the capacity, but correspond to JL Audio spec.)

POWER PLANT ;-)
- 4 guage high quality wire from battery with inline 65 amp fuse holder to fuse block distributor in trunk
- 8 guage from fuse block to amps (one per amp)
- Phoenix Gold 1.2 farad capacitor (4 guage)
- Ground from engine to body and battery to body have been upgraded to 4 guage high quality wire.

No; I don't have read speakers, they are removed to let the bass come in, I always sit front/driver anyway but if back filling is needed I will plant to buy speakers for rear door instead of back glass, this will slightly move the staging toward the center, but not as dramatically as if I put them rear, near the back glass that reflect every thing creating a little echo.

Anybody know if the speaker wiring for back door is factory done, if yes are they the same wire that those going in the trunk ?

MageMinds

Re: Running speaker wires into the doors
 

Hi, I have installed my wire this week end and when it came to bring the 14 guage wire into door, I saw the molex, and then I try to figure how to disconnect it, I have tried to remove the green stopper located in the middle, should that piece be removed entirely, 'cause mine stay stucked in, it came off about 3/4 and then stop, I have tried every thing to get it out, nothing to do, if you say that it should be removed entirely, I'll try again using other method...

Thanks for the info by the way!

I don't remember if the clip came all the way out or not but either way you just have to get it out enough to take apart the 2 csides of the molex.

Re: Running speaker wires into the doors
 

1st MP3 in NH,
I've really gotta say thanks for this info. It helped me out big time today while I was replacing the stock speakers, and wiring them from my amp. Once I got the door panel off, I looked at the harness taking up the whole area where the wires run through and thought I was going to have to use the stock wires.

I did a search and found this thread, though, and it saved my ass.

Thanks a bunch!!!

Glad to hear it helped, what size wire did you get into the door?

14 guage. I really had to scrape the inside of the drill holes to clear enough room, but it fit nicely.

I understand fully I uded monster cable 14 guagge and I had to use some silicone lube to get it through.