i have wires sticking out from under my passenger seat from my amp, i routed some under the carpet but left some out, liked how they looked i guess (virgin audio head) but now i have decent sound im thinkng of hiding/concealing them as good as possible...

do your wires show?

 

If you look under my passenger seat, it is a mess. crossovers are under my drivers seat. They are not visible from normal positions though.

 

only where they have to, otherwise, hell no! i hate seeing wires, what you all?

 

yeah my power and control switch wires show on my passenger side under my glove box, but its just because i measured wrong

(tip for the new installer, start with the wires from the FRONT, and work your way back to the trunk, then just roll up and tie the extra cable and leave it in your trunk, dont try to make things look neat by cutting the extra cable )


[Modified by i, 4:14 AM 3/21/2003]

 

You can only see wires going into the amp. Those and my damn antenna wire

 

naw..not mines...me and my friend spent 7 hours making an amp rack and carefully cleaned up all the wires...i have 3 sets of monster cables, 2 remote wires, 2 power wires/2 ground wires...running straight through to the trunk and not one wire is shown...

 

Hell no !

 

Only if you pull up the carpet, the amp cover panel,etc.....hey I have been
doing this way to long...learned long ago shortcuts will cause problems later on.

 

hmmmm....nope
I yell at friends all the time about that....looks sloppy...a half assed job...
I am a firm believer in electrical tape and zip ties!!!!

 

Only in the engine bay.

 

i have the same standing all my wires are hidden

 

No they don't.

I use wire loom in the engine bay and run everything under the carpets.

 

ok, ok, im gonna conceal mine this weekend, very easy task i might add, hardest is the ground to the seat, i love that red 8 gauge wire just looking up in between the passenger

 

well...you're right about the shortcut thing..it does cause problems later..i had to remove my old system which was installed professionally and couldnt believe where they hid the wires...they wired it along with stock wires...i had to uncover a bunch of things...

its easy to hide the wires...especially if you do it yourself...you can find easier ways and more convienient ways than a shop would do...

 

Ha, try to hide 0 awg. What a PITA.

 

ive never seen 0gauge, how do you connect it to the small space on the amp connecter?
(you know whatimtryintosay)

 

0 awg runs into a distrubution block where it is split into 2 4/8 awg wires.

 

no wires mom



install took a total of 20 hours just to make panels and cover them.the sub box was designed to sit in the spare tire well.sub sites almost flush.alpine 10 disc,alpine surrouns sound,cva 1005,zapco 650 6 channel amp,jl audio 3 piece componants up front and 2 piece componants in the back.

 

Simple by design,yet elegant( one of my favs designs)
Good work...just wondering if you have a cover to protect the sub?

Mad props tho

 

very nice indeed. i'll pos tpics of my setup as soon as i'm done. lates

 

My trunk is never that clean, and I don't have car audio stuff back there yet

 

No wires here. I would tend to think you should hide them simply for the security of it.

 

nicely put!

 

unfortunately my wires do. i have my rca cables running down the driver side of my center console, my power wire sorta hidden along the passenger wall, my extra wires coiled up under a floormat in the back and ran under my 3 boxes inthe hatch. it dont look that bad, but it need to be a lot better for shows