How to get spk wires to doors

[americanskiff 10+ year member]

need to run speaker wire from under the dash to the front doors. Not alot of room in the factory rubber boot that the factory window wires and etc. run through. Would it be best to just drill holes through the door jam and the jam where the kick panel is? Or is there a better way? I would like to use the factory hole and boot, but it doesnt look doable unless someone knows a trick..

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[americanskiff 10+ year member]

Ohh...forgot. I have a 97 Isuzu Rodeo 4x4 if that helps. 16ga wire.

 

[D-C 10+ year member]

I could actually take both sides of the rubber boot off the body/door on my GMC truck. That way I could compress it enough to have the total distance form one end to the other small enough that I could get a wire through.

MAybe yours comes off too, I dunno... otherwise maybe a coat hanger could be pushed through, but make sure it's not sharp enough to damage something.

Anyway, it'd prolly look the best if you couldn't tell you were ever in there.

 

[imaspaceguy90 10+ year member]

they sell little things that look like screw drivers, they ar ea hollow mettal tube and have a handle with a hole in it, you stick it into the rubber and ffed thew rie through the opening, they make them for up to 8 guage wire and really small to, i would try to fit it through that opening, it would be alot cleaner in install perspective and wether resitant. GL on the project, i expect some pics //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

- Imaspaceguy90

 

[americanskiff 10+ year member]

Yea I thought abotu trying to fish the wire through, but its real tough. The factory boot goes in about in the middle of the dash, then it would have to bend quickly to come out at the bottom of the kick panel. The rubber boot will pop out on both ends, but the factory wire takes up all the room. I would like to run it through there though, just going to be tough. Ive tried to post pics of the amp install, so far no luck. For the past few days I havent been able to post even just a text messege, keeps having some error. My avatar is the amp install. Ill keep trying to post a larger pic of it..

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

or have a buddy help you take the door off, and run the wires through that way, kinda easier in a way if you're willing to go that route

 

[squeak12 10+ year member]

I just run mine behind the rubber boot...not the best way, but it works well enough for me

 

[ssj2xxgotenxx 10+ year member]

I justed installed my buddies 6.5" speakers amd G_**** its pretty though. I taped the wire to the end of a screwdriver and jammed it up that mother... got the job done and I dont plan on doing it agian sometime soon.

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

^ I'm having the same problem, PLUS my tweeters are all up in the dash. Looks like I'm gonna hafta drop the dash, and pull the doors.

Airbags are a b!tch, too.