Has anybody here ran wires through the stock harness sleeves, is there room and is it worth it? And if so, how exactly did you do it?

 

I looked at the door jamb and I found that there is a plug in harness that separates the door from the body. So I'd imagine running a wire through there would be pretty near impossible. So I started to look under the dash and found the harness that runs to the door. Do I have to splice into this harness to hoo up my door speakers when replacing the Bose, or is there an alternative?

 

When I wired my components last week, I simply cut the factory wires going to the doors. They are easy to find as the pos/neg are taped together behind the kickpanels. Much easier than drilling (what most people do) to get speaker wire to the doors. The factory wire is decent, I wouldn't push more than 75w through it though.

 

the front doors use molex connectors, so there's isn't running wires through those.

the rear doors just have a sleeve around them and once you remove the b-pillar cover, it's easy to get a wire out of the car

 

is it really that easy to connect through the molex using the pre-existing wire for the speakers? It seems the harness on the driver's side is sitting way up in the dash area.

 

The rear door don't have plug in connectors, so just do it and try to penetrate that hole with those big wires your using. The front do have the connectors, so I just drilled the side of the door, not really a problem, again just make an attempt dawg.

 

Here's a good alternative for the front door wires:
"Anyways, about the hole in the fender. Yes, there is a hole there, and it's not run into the engine bay and back into the cabin. I tried to go snap a pic, but it's nearly impossible to see, and really only possible to feel the hole there. It's a little further towards the front of the car and further up on the fender than the stock wiring coming from the door that enters the fender. If you shine a flashlight down in there you might be able to see it, but I'd just probe around there with your fingers and see if you can feel it. Additionally, if you take off the interior kick panel inside the car you *might* be able to see some light coming in, particularly if you had someone shining a flashlight from above.

The hole isn't large, and it was created from the factory. It isn't sharp, and it's painted, so it should be there on all A33s. " All credit goes to MetaOrbit


http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....olding+mirrors

 

The rear doors are easy to run threw but I've been stuck for the past week on how I was going to run wires for the front door. Does anyone know the biggest guage wire that could fit threw that hole on the fender?

 

I used the same hole. If you remove the front wheels and pull back the wheel well, you can easily see the plug. I just removed the plug and drilled a hole through it. I then sprayed down the speaker wire with some soapy water and pushed it through. Works like a charm. No drilling etc...

I have pictures but you can't see this plug.

 

Can you post pics of what you do have? I'm assuming you run the wire from under the dash to this hole in the pic above and then you cut a hole in the grommet on the door and run it in there?