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sylonien wrote:Well here is my "ghetto" style probably not very good idea on telling some people how or where to wire the power cable from the engine compartment to the interior. (This is how I did mine anyway)

Please note: I will NOT be responsible if you guys destroy your vehicles! This is a "guide". I did not force you to this is. It's your own responsiblity.


Starting with the engine compartment.


Power (positive, plus, red) lead connected to the battery terminal.


The in-line fuse holder (60amp) and in the background underneath the ECU box/chip thingy, you can see the red cable, which is the power cable and it pokes through that grommet. There is a wire already through that hole, which will save you from drilling your own, plus it's close to the battery. (Thanks SiDaBa)


A closer look at the grommet/hole.


This is the view from the inside. You will see the grommet/wire underneath the glovebox compartment. So you don't really need to remove any parts just to get the wire in to the inside. (You will obviously have to when you start wiring it to the boot).


A closer look of this.


(I have skipped the bit about taking the side trims and interior parts off to wire it cleanly from the front passenger to the back.)

Well here you can see the wire has been run along the side sills bit by removing the relevant parts and it pokes back out again on the back side panel. The cable on the right-edge corner is the power cable. The rest is just the subwoofer and remote turn on cables.


Here is a shot of all the equipments placed in the boot and set-up correctly.


The reason why the amp is facing this way is 'cos my earth cable is limited by its length and the closes earth point in the boot (what I did) was behind the medic kit bit. Just carefully pull out the carpet and you should see the point. You can hook it there.


Extra this bit, a look at the subwoofer! A JBL 12" for £49.99!


Anyway this is it. Hope it helped you guys and cleared up some stuff. Feel free to ask for anything.

Catch you laters.

jj86 wrote: The problematic part, i found, was getting through the bloody double gromits from the engine bay into the interior. I dunno if some 9n's have different layout here, but once past the first gromit, i found another one deep inside, with access really restricted by the windscreen and surrounding structures.

jj86 wrote: Once through there, and fishing around for ages through the side of the glove box structure, the wiring's piece of p***.

jj86 wrote: Anyway, enough moans. '..Looney', best advice is that you make sure you keep the wiring separate... that is, the power cables running down one side of the car, and the others down the opposite side or else you might get quite a bit of interference.

vwclub.gr wrote:You can take the positive pole of the battery from the inside the car!!! Under the steering wheel there is a square cup, take it off. In there you will find the place from where to connect the power cable!!! If you can't find it please let me know, I will take a picture to post here for all you who are trying to do this!

vwclub.gr wrote:Ok , it seems that i might be of some interrest to you guyz so tommorow morning I'm posting a pic!!!

carmadaaron wrote:well if ur hooking up an amp and sub in the boot, then obviously the earth cable has to be as short as possible (usually 0.5m - 1m) and this can be screwd to the seatbelt holder, or "behind the medic kit bit" which is to the left of the boot if u facing your boot.

hope this helps...