shop says 0 awg is too big for my car?

[jaytoofly 10+ year member]

so i currently have a 4 awg power and ground and wanted to upgrade to a 0 awg but the shop i go to says that it wont fit in my car should i go to another shop? i drive a 2002 audi a4 btw.

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[AJM511 10+ year member]

huh. not sure what that means.

how would it not fit your car?

Would it not fit through the firewall or something?

 

[jaytoofly 10+ year member]

i think they said its too big to fit under my carpet/panels

 

[xoutofmyheadx 10+ year member]

did you ask em where it wouldn't fit? may not be the dumbest thing i ever heard but it's up there.

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

run, run really far away. they just want to sell you some 4 gauge at the same price you can get some nice 0 gauge. if you can't fit the 0 gauge under your carpet panels than you can run it out side the car either under the rocker panel or route it along your fuel lines.

 

[matt_bennett05 10+ year member]

Maybe they prefer multiple runs of 4ga? RUN!!!

 

[AJM511 10+ year member]

There's always a way to get 0 gauge through your car.

 

[ecko_0113 10+ year member]

shop sounds like a bunch of d-bags

 

[TMB_WaCk 10+ year member]

sounds like you gotta do some work yourself man,. Save yourself a buck, and learn.

 

[Bob Saget]

It's not that hard to run 1/0, I had 4 runs along one side of my brothers Trail Blazer. It took a bit of work, but I got it all under the carpet. Either find another shop or do it yourself. Most of the time there are pre-existing channels under the carpet, where the factory wires are, that it'll fit in. A last resort would be to run it underneath your vehicle under the rocker panels, but I try to avoid that at all cost. In the unlikely event you hit/run over something & pinch it you could turn your car into a fire pit.

 

[outsideshot23 10+ year member]

all of these are corrwect.. bigger wire is never worse.. better efficiency. tell em to stick it up their nose with a rubber hose