Anyone come up with any great ideas on how to get aftermarket speaker wire through the boot/grommet in the doors? i cant even tell where the wires come out?!

run a clothes hanger through the hole and then tape the wire to it and pull back through. i did this for my amp power wire through the firewall. if it still won't go through put vaasoline on the wire. i did this after fooling with it forever and it slid right through

Originally posted by LeakyMitsu
Anyone come up with any great ideas on how to get aftermarket speaker wire through the boot/grommet in the doors? i cant even tell where the wires come out?!

It's a bit of a pain in the ass. Not sure if all the model years are like this, but on my 99gs.

Open the door, and pop off the end of the boot connected to the body. Give the sides a pinch and it should go, if not gently use a flat screwdriver to pry it off. Pull the tubing back a little and disconnect the connector.

With the wires disconnected from the connector, go inside the car and look up under the dash, you'll see the door connector body. Unscrew the screws holding it in place and the connector assembly will come out(It's a PITA to get to the screws, very little room)

I just drilled some holes in the dead space of the connector body to feed the speaker wires thru.

Put it all back together and start feeding the wires. It's a pain, but it can be done.

you need a pokey:) basically a metal wire kinda of like a clothes hanger, it needs to be stiff enough to be pushed thro something like the rubber hose there and still flexible so it can curve. and there you go, a pokey

Originally posted by sd_eclipse

Originally posted by LeakyMitsu Anyone come up with any great ideas on how to get aftermarket speaker wire through the boot/grommet in the doors? i cant even tell where the wires come out?!

It's a bit of a pain in the ass. Not sure if all the model years are like this, but on my 99gs. Open the door, and pop off the end of the boot connected to the body. Give the sides a pinch and it should go, if not gently use a flat screwdriver to pry it off. Pull the tubing back a little and disconnect the connector. With the wires disconnected from the connector, go inside the car and look up under the dash, you'll see the door connector body. Unscrew the screws holding it in place and the connector assembly will come out(It's a PITA to get to the screws, very little room) I just drilled some holes in the dead space of the connector body to feed the speaker wires thru. Put it all back together and start feeding the wires. It's a pain, but it can be done.

hes very right...pain in the ass and waste of time....why you running new speaker wire anyways???use the stock wires...

because my front right speaker wire has a break in it somewhere...i dont want to replace it, i have to replace it...and i figured if i were to do one side i should do the other. thanks for the ideas

you can use the original speaker wire that runs through the rubber boot to pull through. That's what I did when I re-ran mine.

Originally posted by LeakyMitsu
because my front right speaker wire has a break in it somewhere...i dont want to replace it, i have to replace it...and i figured if i were to do one side i should do the other. thanks for the ideas

tie the new wire to the old one and pull man :)