Speaker cable into car

[col-blue]

Just had a quick look around my Grande Punto doorcard and noticed there is no where to get speaker cable into the car from the door. What has everyone else done?

I was thinking about running the cable under the door seals.

 

[volxstu]

Most people drill out the the cable thingy and pass it through there. I just hooked mine up to the ISO.

 

[col-blue]

Most people drill out the the cable thingy and pass it through there. I just hooked mine up to the ISO.

That was my plan to wire it to the iso but was worried about the size of the cable.

 

[volxstu]

Well im sure on a small system it would be fine. Different people say different things.

 

[Ruuko]

well my speaker wire runs under the door seal once the footwell trim is on you cant tell and its still water tight, thats using 10 Awg speaker cable too.

 

[Ruuko]

col mate where are you located, if ya can we should meet up cos i could probably answer most of your GP ICE questions and show ya my install

 

[volxstu]

Hmmm i feel an ICE meet coming along. Im not going to Barnsley though i drove up there to pick up my sub, 5 hours each way :bang:

 

[Ruuko]

come on voll u know ya wanna!!!!

 

[volxstu]

Na i can do half way or something on a saturday, stay over night and go for a curry. We could bring some tools and help fit things or show what we would do. I will hopefully have a scope by then so i could get everything running tickedy boo. Any ideas are welcome.

 

[Ruuko]

sounds good mate! I'll be up for it after i swap my 1.2 for a 1.4 t-jet (hopefully a couple of months), my install atm is just to tide me over the type s sub is alright but it lacks clarity.

 

[dannygp]

I would be up for a meet. You can have a look at my setting Stu

 

[mehstg]

I gave up on drilling the multiplug in the end too. Did the car side multiplug (Female) no problem. But the one on the door side was a beeatch and is a moulded plug. Also, driver side had no free pins

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[volxstu]

Most people end up taking the doors off to do it. I personally would want proof that there would be any audible difference to go to that amount of trouble.

 

[mehstg]

Yeah taking the doors off is a bit extreme!! - So did you just run your cables to the iso block and use factory wiring then?

P

 

[volxstu]

Yup and im pumping 200w RMS through them, i would imagine that you lose like 2-3% efficiency or something like that so 6w isnt going to make an audible difference is it.
You will loose more by having the gain set 0.1° out.