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How do I get my powercable, needed to connect my amp to the cars battery, in the engineroom. Is there a special hole behind the dashboard? In the last car I owned (a CRX ED9 ) there was a hole covered by a rubber, but i can't seem to find one in my Cupra.
I own a '97 Cupra.
Greetz from LAAF (The Netherlands)
If its a Leon Cupra, and its RHD, you will find a rubber grommet in the bulkhead behind the pollen filter housing (left hand side of the housing if you are looking at it from the front of the car) that is about half an inch across
this is assuming your car is right hand drive leon cupra
look for the battery under the bonnet directly behind it you will see the factory wiring loom undo the case on the factory wiring loom and follow it back towards the bulkhead it should go into the bodywork just below where your windscreen wiper is
remove the outer casing of you windscreen wiper case so you can get at the motors under there is the pollen filter there are two screws attached to it undo these and you should be able to remove the pollen filter just behind the pollen filter is a large grommet remove this and shine a torch through
then either yourself or a freind has to get inside the car and find where the grommet is inside the car (look for the torchlight)
once you have done this cut your gromet to the proper size just big enough to allow the cable to come through and place it over the length of your cable then feed your cable through the hole
NEVER EVER PUT CABLE THROUGH A BULKHEAD WITHOUT SOME FORM OF PROTECTION it is extremely dangerous as the wire could fray and set your car on fire
once you have done this just simply work the cable to wherever you want in the car and replace the parts you have allready moved
Icecavern
13-02-2002, 08:50
Well said mate...
I've seen people who have fed the power cable through a drilled hole without any protection at all...
Recipe for disaster... And in case you think, " Oh it's only 12v no harm done" Well I once met a guy who hadn't taken off his watch whilst working on his car. He was just finished and was tightening up the bolt holding one of the battery connections on. As he tightened it up his watch touched one contact of the battery whilst the spanner on the other one touched the other side of his watch....
( If your squeemish look away now... )
Because of the amount of current a car battery can pump out the watch got VERY hot. Hot enough in fact to weld all the links in the wrist band together... Obviously you can imagine what this did you his wrist.. Hours in theatre got the watch off and then hours more of skin grafts later and he now can use the hand to a limited degree...
Moral of the storey guys is be careful with those power cables....
Pete
I agree with all this safety stuff:) but if the cable is correctly fused as close to the battery as possible it will greatly reduce the risk of fire if there is any fraying:)
I once saw a car that had the fuse near the amp:rolleyes: thats effectivly a nice 1kW electric fire element running under the trim in ya motor if anything goes tits up:(
I'm glad to hear about the grommet in the leon hopefully an ideal pass through point for an alarm too???
theres one on the other side for the alarm but its a bit more fiddly:devil:
I've looked at the pollen filter but i can't remove it, the's a bolt near the chassis witch i can't reach.
Is there any other way.
By the way it's not a Leon but a Seat Ibiza 2.0 16V Cupra
a 97 cupra cant b a Leon as they werent out in 97 were they!??!
I'll assume its an Ibiza. There's a grommet on the passenger side of the car if u look under and behind the glove box compartment if that helps.
leon,s have been around a lot longer on the continent than over here.
that xplains dat den :rolleyes: