I owed Plex a favor and he asked me to do a write up on how I routed my cables. You could do it neater if you'd like, but im more for sound then looks. Enjoy!
I would like to give credit to Kynyption for helping ME on routing the cable.
Tools you will need:
-8mm socket
-Phillips head screw driver
-A water bottle
-Patience!
First,
Next to the passenger side trunk arm, you will see a hole about 2 inches big. All your wire's will go thru here.
I have my Sub power cable (blue), Sub speaker cable (clear with red stripe) and my capacitor cable (red) going thru there.
A close up of the hole. The black pipe is for the gas tank so be careful NOT to damage it.
They then end up on the other side, I did not remove the seat but you can see that they go to the bottom.
The bolts holding down the rear seat are 8mm and there are three of them. One on the right, one one the left and one in the center.
You then pull up the carpeting and start routing the wires.
A close up of the wires coming from behind the seat.
I didn't know how to get the wires thru the power seat so I cut a 1 inch hole in the carpeting and pulled up the wires and threw them over the motor.
They then ended up in the front of the motor and I put them under the mat. Take notice there are (2) mats, I put them under the second mat.
The power cable is going thru the side of the carpeting up against the beam.
I did this so it will have little or no contact with the speaker cables. The remote amp turn on cable is there too, its blue so its a bit hard to see.
The sub speaker wiring is on the opposite side.
Put it behind the black plastic panel and it leads to another entrance to the rear of the head unit. Connect however you'd like. It's easier to remove the head unit and grab the speaker wire from the stereo hole instead.
This is where your philips head screw driver comes in handy, you take off the bottom of the dashboard to make things easier if you'd like. There is a hole up there and its a VERY tight squeeze, so call your 2 year old brother out and have him do the work. Put the wires thru the hole.
This is where the hole leads to, the engine bay. There will be a plastic piece behind the battery covering this hole so make sure to remove to gain access. You can leave it out for weight savings if you'd like .
Connect to you battery.
Place everything back in it's place including carpeting and plastic panels and your sub's should be wired up.
If there is anything you would like me to clarify on, please ask and if you have anything you would like to add to make things easier, POST IT!
With best regards,
Dami3n AKA DarkCreep.
Then My Reply....
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Originally Posted by Kynyption
Perfect...except the fact that...you should run the audio cables on the other side of the car
As Ceph Perfectly Said..
Connecting to the battery is easier with one of these crimped on the end of the wire...(second from the right)..Then just slip it over the bolt that you tighten the terminal down by.
Then for this cable
I would tuck it up under the CC all the way back to the side of the chair and the cc so no one can see it.
Also...The wiring here...If you pull up the carpet on the back seat there is actually a hole on the bottom of the back seat behind the vaccuum pump it takes some finesse but its easier to ru nthe wires down there and they are hiden a lot more. There is also a hole on the drivers side so you can run the speaker cables.
I may take pictures of how i did it in a couple days when the rain lets up.
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Originally Posted by Cephallus
Those power cables are fused near the battery, right???
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kynyption
I think i see the blue ones fuse in the engine bay..
Red one i dont know.. thats not how my cap is ran so i dont know...
Better hope its in the bay not the trunk....boom..
This Is Just A GUIDE To Show How Cables Can Be Run, There Are Neater Ways, This just points out the few minor key details.
kryp on your 7th picture see that hole in the side,
thers wher ei ran my cabeling
because tehres heaps of room in there and, becuase there was lack of room under the seat,
and omG< i cant believe u cut hole in ur carpet,
you can make it fit
it just takes a long time,
theres a small hole under hte carpet
u gotta take all the panels, off in the car, side u want
take off the every panel and u can see it,
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Quoterjb190e"BMWs are girl cars... keep the 190 for yourself."
kryp on your 7th picture see that hole in the side,
thers wher ei ran my cabeling
because tehres heaps of room in there and, becuase there was lack of room under the seat,
and omG< i cant believe u cut hole in ur carpet,
you can make it fit
it just takes a long time,
theres a small hole under hte carpet
u gotta take all the panels, off in the car, side u want
take off the every panel and u can see it,
Dude, take a closer look at what i posted. They are QUOTED from another guy. I know these cars inside and out and i know how to run all my cables.
Honestly the installation is not too bad. But like i mentioned before this is just a basic guide to show it can be done and a general way of doing it. If you have the time there are much cleaner ways to do it. Hell if i have the time i can probably write a paragraph or two on it. Maybe another date.
Dude, take a closer look at what i posted. They are QUOTED from another guy. I know these cars inside and out and i know how to run all my cables.
yer good
cos this guy have no friggen idea, well, in some parts i was like why would he do that when you could do this
also i believe that this is a later model 190e, its definitly not a 2.6
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the easiest and funnest way to do it
is just take your whole interior out thats wat i did,
found lots of goodies thats been bured and hidden over the 20 years
german pens? and a silver coin NOT AUSTRALIAN
MY SETUP ( i drew it all up in illustrator )
DOWNLOAD SETUP.PDF
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