I was wondering how those of you that have done your own installs have been wiring your RCAs and remote turn on wires (basically any wires from the amp to the headunit) from the hatch area to the center dash? I'm somewhat reluctant to go the center console path since it would be unnecessary work to remove the center console. Currently, the wires are going up the passenger door sill but I couldn't find a 'good' way to get the rca and remote turn on wire from the kick panel area to the headunit/center dash. The area behind the carpet is pretty flat and the only hole going to the headunit area seems to come out a little too far from the headunit. Most likely I will be relocating the RCAs to the driver side in an effort to keep them away from the power cable but logically, the driver side shouldn't be much different and I'm assuming I'll have the same problems. Any help would be appreciate. Pictures of where to thread the RCA cables from behind the driver side carpet through the center dash to the headunit would be *greatly* appreciated.

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There is a stock cable conduit down the driver's side as well. I too ran the heavy power cables down the passenger's side back to the front part of the rear wheel well and then over to my amplifier rack. That left the "up the middle" option which also has some stock wiring. There's a "black box" sitting near the handbrake and another one further back - one of them is the body control yaw/roll/pitch G sensor and the other is the air bag diagnosis sensor. Neither of these are high current devices - high current means high magnetic flux and signal coupling.

Cables running down the sides of the car include the heated seats, the brake/backing/running lights, and the power to the Bose amplifiers: subwoofer and four channel. Each of these alone likely draw more power that the G sensor and air bag diagnostic black boxes.

I ended up running my signal wires along the passenger's side of the transmission hump away from those existing factory wires.

 

I kind of wanted to avoid going up the center console. Any idea as to how to get the wire from the driver kick panel to the center dash specifically where to have the wires enter the center dash so that they can reach the headunit?

 

Center console was easy to remove. Just removed the two side bolts and lifted up. You dont have to remove the shift **** to be able to get the wires ran. I just pulled the center console up a bit, zipped tied the wires together, and ran the wires down the console. Where the handbrake is, they are just under the center console on the left of the handbrake. From there you can take them anywhere you want.

It would be much easier to do that then to take the kick panel, quarter panel, and runner off and then run the wire up under the steering wheel. I did that for my gps wire. When taking the quarter panel off, I actually was pulling/pushing pretty hard and it came off and hit my right in the bridge of the nose. Hurt like hell. Maybe that is why I prefer the center console path?

 

How many meters do you need to run rcas down the center console to the glove box area? I'm guessing 2 meters might be enough? Or 3 meters?

 

Depends exactly where your amps are at but mine went well with 6 feet/2 meters.

 

Center console is very easy to pull up. You just pull up the shifter area, undue the screw in the ash tray, and unscrew the screws on each side of the back of the console.

 

My 2006 did not have a screw on the top where the ashtray used to be. I have cup holders!