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<blockquote data-quote="ekincam" data-source="post: 3649543" data-attributes="member: 581428">I was running speaker 12 AWG speaker wire into my door, huge PITA, and the car has a rubber conduit that fits into the door on one side and into the door frame at the other.&nbsp; There are two layers of metal at that part of the chassis.The first layer of metal is the layer that the rubber conduit mounts to.&nbsp; The next layer is about 1&quot; from that, towards the inside of the car, and has a square opening of about 2.5&quot; x 2.5&quot; that is just metal.&nbsp; The factory wiring runs directly through that opening but after I ran everything, I noticed some scrapes on the insulation and that the speaker wire had to touch the bottom of that bare metal edge, not much pressure - jus touching, because of the way the wire has to be ran.I used split loom plastic tubing and zip-tied it tight to the wire, would that be sufficient protection for the wire or is there something better?&nbsp; I just don&#039;t want the metal edge to eventually cut through the insulation jacket.Is there some type of disconnect I can put near that location in case I have to remove that rubber conduit for some reason?&nbsp; There are two factory wiring harnesses in that area that can be disconnected in that area should the door wiring need to be removed.&nbsp; Would insulated quick disconnects work just fine?I am running 150W RMS into my door components.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ekincam, post: 3649543, member: 581428"] I was running speaker 12 AWG speaker wire into my door, huge PITA, and the car has a rubber conduit that fits into the door on one side and into the door frame at the other. There are two layers of metal at that part of the chassis. The first layer of metal is the layer that the rubber conduit mounts to. The next layer is about 1" from that, towards the inside of the car, and has a square opening of about 2.5" x 2.5" that is just metal. The factory wiring runs directly through that opening but after I ran everything, I noticed some scrapes on the insulation and that the speaker wire had to touch the bottom of that bare metal edge, not much pressure - jus touching, because of the way the wire has to be ran. I used split loom plastic tubing and zip-tied it tight to the wire, would that be sufficient protection for the wire or is there something better? I just don't want the metal edge to eventually cut through the insulation jacket. Is there some type of disconnect I can put near that location in case I have to remove that rubber conduit for some reason? There are two factory wiring harnesses in that area that can be disconnected in that area should the door wiring need to be removed. Would insulated quick disconnects work just fine? I am running 150W RMS into my door components. [/QUOTE]

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