Running speaker cable into doors

[Ben]

I'm going to be putting new speakers and also tweeters into the doors. I've got some Vibe speaker cable so its pretty chunky stuff, looking at the door loom pipe thingy it looks like it'll be almost impossible to run two cables through. How do people do it?!

Thanks, Ben

[Piggy]

you dont.

im doing this soon.... bit some grommets and drill a hole either side. Buy some cable trunking if feeling flush

[Niall]

Yeah you cant basically. Its a sealed plug on the loom.

Only way to do it is to drill another hole in the door, another in the body and run a second, smaller cable hose to run cables through.

[Ricky]

Make sure you put a little paint on the bare metal once you've drilled, don't want rust appearing!

[Ben]

Ok thanks guys. What can I get to attach the trunking to either side to keep it in place?

[Piggy]

get a good fitting grommet. ...They won't go anywhere

[Ben]

Quite a bit of metal to drill through on the car side! there shouldn't be any wires or anything in there should there? Just above the bottom door hinge..

[Piggy]

nah. all good

[Rich306]

Just use small cable ties to attach it to the current loom.

[Piggy]

Just use small cable ties to attach it to the current loom.

that will work but it will look pretty poor

[Rich306]

Tuck it behind and you won't notice. Especially if you use small cable ties.

[Grant]

I drilled a hole through an empty terminal in the plug, all the way through the resin sealant at the back, then ran a wire through that, just leave a bit of slack in the trunking so you can pull the plug apart. Just hop you never have to remove the door or you will have to re run the wire for your speakers...

[Ben]

Just use small cable ties to attach it to the current loom.

This would still require holes drilled though would it not?

[Piggy]

exactly

[Ben]

I drilled a hole through an empty terminal in the plug, all the way through the resin sealant at the back, then ran a wire through that, just leave a bit of slack in the trunking so you can pull the plug apart. Just hop you never have to remove the door or you will have to re run the wire for your speakers...

I'll have a look, I usually break those type of plugs though when I try to undo them! What size cable did you manage to fit through it? I have 2 double cables..

[DeeTurbo]

What I've done on mine was to go through the big rubber grommet thats part of the door loom, just to one side of the loom and then got it in to the door thought the gap above the door strap.