Thread: Speaker wiring?

I was replacing and upgrading the speaker cabling as part of fitting a new dash and head unit in the Defender, and was runnign in better speaker cable by taping it to the end of the existing stuff to use as a draw wire....and, you've guessed it, although the RHS went OK, the LHS managed to pull itself apart leaving me with the new one not run in and the old one completely out.

For the life of me, I can't see an easy cable route from the dash area to the hole for the speaker in the aircon cover/lower dash. I'm hoping and praying you don't need to remove all of this just to get a cable through, but everything I've tried so far has been specatcularly unsucessful. Amazing how it's the little things that get you - the whole rest of the new dash/mud console and all electronics went perfectly. Should have left the bloody speakers as they were.

Anyone got any idea how the cable should run, or what the minimum I need to remove is to get a way through? There just seems no open space/hole between the bottom of the dash and the aircon unit that you can get through....

Don't want to take half the car to bits to have someone later say "Why did you do that, all you needed to do was...."

Not sure about exactly what you have to remove, but you could try this.

Get an old wire coat hanger and cut off the top hanging bit. Straighten the rest of the wire out as much as you can. Then try and push the straight(ish) wire between the aircon and dash GENTLY. If it comes out the other side just tape the speaker wire to the other end and pull through.

if you have a bit of extra speaker wire you may want to only attach 1 strand to the coat hanger and cut the second one off so it goes through easier. Once you have the first strand through the second (still attached to the first but a bit shorter) should follow it without too much trouble.

Andrew