Fitting Subwoofer

[LeonUser]

Hello All,

i bought a subwoofer yesterday but i cant see anywhere under the bonnet to thread the cable threw to the back.

Has anyone got any pictures to show where you can thread it threw?

Cheers.

 

[herb2578]

after lots of searching myself when i did mine i traced some wires to behind the pollen filter and there is a grommet there. it works out great cause you can remove the side pannel on the dash and bring the wire through the dash quite easily

 

[seatcupra]

As said above,

I went through the rubber grommet as well

 

[dawson86]

wat a *******, i went through behinf drivers side with power cable, dint even think to look behind pollen filter.

 

[hainez]

follow the cable trunking ( the square plastic stuff) from the battery and un screw the two screws on the pollen filter cover, i found it easyier to remove the glove box its only a few t20 torx screws, you will be able to see the round grommit as mentioned earlier... real easy to do...

 

[RaviR50]

got my sub to wire in soon, sounds easy enough now where did everyone run the RCA cables?? youre not supposed to run them next to the power

 

[herb2578]

I ran the permanent and switched live down the passenger side and the rca's down the drivers side and took the ground from by the seatbelt clips there is a spare hole iirc

 

[d3nn15]

i ran mine underneath the car following the brake lines and comming up through the spare wheel bit, but i am running 0 gauge wire and it would bulge through the carpet lol

 

[joshmorris]

dont ever run cables underneath the car! ive got very thick 0 gauge running through the car just fine

 

[RaviR50]

My head unit doesn't have a switched live terminal what other wire can I use?? I thought the remote only needs to be like 2v but everything I measured is about 10v the least was 5v :-(

 

[herb2578]

Does your stereo switch off when you turn your ignition off?

 

[RaviR50]

Yeah it does but nothing I tested had a low voltage I think

 

[d3nn15]

dont ever run cables underneath the car! ive got very thick 0 gauge running through the car just fine

mini coopers have the main battery lead running under the car, no different to puttin any other cable under aslong as its fused, all my cars iv owned i have ran power leads underneath and neva had a problem, (touch wood) but always best to do it properly sometimes

 

[RaviR50]

Ooh what switched live is that then??

 

[LeonUser]

Bringing up am old thread.

My sub was working fine yesterday but for some reason it's not working now?

It's getting power and turned on the stereo head as well?

Any ideas?

 

[Moominboy]

Bringing up am old thread.

My sub was working fine yesterday but for some reason it's not working now?

It's getting power and turned on the stereo head as well?

Any ideas?

If it's getting a pos feed properly, and remote is doing it's thing, then I can only guess at your neg connections?

I just spliced my sub/amp rmt cable into a choc block at the back of the head unit from it's rmt wire. ( Blue/white iirc.)

 

[LeonUser]

If it's getting a pos feed properly, and remote is doing it's thing, then I can only guess at your neg connections?

I just spliced my sub/amp rmt cable into a choc block at the back of the head unit from it's rmt wire. ( Blue/white iirc.)

Ive checked all wiring from HU and all the way down back to the sub and nothing there?

Mine really confusing me :/ cause i dont know if its blown up as i cant test it

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[Moominboy]

Be easy enough to test it bud. Got any spare cable from your install lying around? Take the sub out of the boot, to the front of the car.

Run a remote from your HU to it, the connect straight to the battery terminals +/-. fused of course!

Having a fluke is also pretty handy. Dunno your sub make but mine has it's own fuse on the lower backside of the box. Just a smallish blade one , similar size to the cars blade fuses.

If that works then it has to be pos fault or neg fault. Or rmt fault I spose.